Michael Douglas

Oral Sex & Cancer: Should You Go Down?

So can going down cause cancer? You better hope not, because it would be the greatest excuse ever for your partner to stay off his knees. After Michael Douglas announced that cunnilingus was to blame for his throat cancer, it set off a storm of media coverage. We talked to an expert at UCLA who say ... More >>

Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks

This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political art of the '80s. 5. What art even is When the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston changed its nam ... More >>

The Worst Traffic Jam In The History Of The Man And Maybe Even The Universe

Here's what this is: It takes EXACTLY 17 minutes for me to get from the entrance ramp of the freeway near my house to the machine at my work where employees swipe in. I know this because I have made the drive roughly 1,400 times during my seven years of employment. I also know this because I have, o ... More >>

5 Films People Will Be Talking About at Sundance

For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes--and those of many a filmgoer--will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah, reportedly experiencing its chilliest winter in a decade. Their collective hope: to discover at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26) the next Beasts of the ... More >>

Haywire Review

Gina Carano transitions from MMA star to movie star

Channing Tatum and Gina Carano in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

Ali Wong: L.A.'s Raunchiest Vietnamese-Chinese-American Standup Comic

​ Ali Wong is a cutesy-pie, potty-mouth, Vietnamese-Chinese-American comic. What more do you need to know? Here's our Q&A with her: You're hilarious. Were you funny as a kid? I constantly peed in my pants up until the 8th grade and wore an extra-large sailor uniform from kindergarten to 8t ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!

ALI WONG

Bas Jan Ader and Zoe Crosher: The Art of Disappearing People

Zoe CrosherZoe Crosher's photo of where Michael Douglas jumped at Venice Beach Pier in the movie Falling Down ​ This week's art feature in our print edition, Catherine Wagley connects two current exhibits that explore the art of disappearing people. One shows the work of the artist and cult f ... More >>

Ronni Chasen: Hollywood Shocked Following Apparent Beverly Hills Murder Of Beloved Publicist

deadline.comChasen was found with five gunshot wounds to her chest.​Hollywood insiders were shocked following Tuesday morning's news that longtime film publicist Ronni Chasen was gunned down in her Mercedes in one of the tonier parts of a tony city, Beverly Hills. "We are heartbroken, shocked ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Here and There, The Philosopher Kings, The Oath

Also, The Living Wake, Holy Rollers, Shrek Forever After

EXCLUSIVE Interview: The Mighty Boosh's Rich Fulcher on His New Book and YouTube Hit "Rapper With a Baby"

Rich Fulcher is a hugely successful, immediately recognizable American comedian. The thing is, he is hugely successful and immediately recognizable in the UK, where he's one of the main supporting characters in the cult hit series The Mighty Boosh, and one of the two creators of even more cultish, b ... More >>

Filmmakers of the Decade: Steven Soderbergh

At the end of the '00s, the chameleonic filmmaker once again shed his skin and captured the zeitgeist

Movie Reviews: All About Steve, Loren Cass, Ink, Walt & El Grupo

Also, Sandstorm, No Impact Man, Gamer and more

Summer Movies: Villains and Heroes, Robots and Mad Men

Secret plot for Wall Street 2, huge tracking for Transformers 2

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: The Haunting in Rhode Island

Matthew McConaughey is scary — scarily bad, that is

Che, Cannes and Hi-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance hit

A Letter at 3 PM

On Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly's Bogart in cowboy boots

Best and Worst Fictional Presidential Speeches on Film TV

It’s almost hard to believe that we are, at long last, in the final stretches of the 2008 presidential campaign. No matter which way you are inclined to vote (though particularly so if you skew blue, where the primary race felt almost as long as all seven seasons of The West Wing), there have bee ... More >>

Movie Reviews: An American Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Flash of Genius

Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more

Movie Reviews: Encounters at the End of the World, Finding Amanda, Wanted

Also, The Unknown Woman, Expired and more

Lacking Grace

John Cusack enters the Iraq weepstakes

Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

Also I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Ira & Abby, December Boys and more

Film Reviews: Lucky You, Waitress, Rock the Bells

Chest of Lies

Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance

What a Wreck

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Three’s a crowd in You, Me and Dupree

Film Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

Bulworth? B.S.

The problem with Warren’s posturing

Fish Slapping, Angel Baiting and “PAUL-AH-NIK”

All About Laura

Downsized

American and European movies go to work

In the Beginning

An interview with L.A. Weekly founder Jay Levin

Treasure Hunt

Unearthing L.A.’s culture gems

Mapping Andy

Protest: Rat Trap

Party Animals

Gray has a blast; Dick, a sour time

L.A. Weekly’s 23rd Annual Theater Award Information

Male Malfeasance

Men of the Old School

A thin gray line regroups

The Fleiss Family Bed

Letters

I, Legend

A morning with Charlton Heston

Wonder Boys and Girls

Our year at the movies

Go! Go! Go!

Steven Soderbergh and his new film, Traffic

In a Lonely Place

Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, plus Cast Away,The House of Mirth and The Family Man

A Quitter, a Chicana Role Model and One Angry Queer

New fiction from Aimee Bender, Michele Serros, James Robert Baker

Campus Confidential

Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys

Punch Lines

Director David Fincher works the ropes