Twenty twelve was another strong year for Los Angeles metal bands. What's especially cool is that we're not just kicking ass in one kind of metal -- L.A.'s got it going on in just about every metal sub-genre. Without further ado, then, here are our top ten Los Angeles metal albums of 2012. See also ... More >>
Disasters, Technicolor and Bertolucci
More vampires, noir and Tarr
For the past eight years, Los Angeles metal band Graf Orlock have been culling samples and dialogue from action movies like Predator and Lethal Weapon into a manic concoction of noise, punk and grindcore that they call "cinemagrind." The group twists seemingly innocuous dialogue from these badass fl ... More >>
Vertov and Zulawski last shots
Turns out David Milch and Michael Mann's hardcore new horse-racing show for HBO, the extremely well-received Luck, was a little too realistic for comfort. PETA started the flamewar last month, enraged at the news that two horses had to be put down in a single season. And when word came today of a t ... More >>
We knew Luck would be hardcore. With Deadwood's David Milch on the screenplay and Miami Vice's Michael Mann in the director's chair, HBO's new ode to horse-racing was bound to be grittier and manlier than Cormac McCarthy' 5 'o' clock shadow. But are they taking the realism too far? In a single sea ... More >>
Michael's daughter talks about her quest to make a more realistic cop movie
Bringing Mexican to L.A., With Mixed Results
Also, Chasing 3000, The People I've Slept With and more
It's not that Club Nokia is an awful venue. It has its uses--an intimate Usher show, for example, or a Level 42 reunion (coming soon, for reals), or any act who has ever been on a Michael Mann soundtrack (Phil Collins with a surprise appearance by Ian Hammer would be a golden moment at Club Nokia). ... More >>
Michael Mann on personal crises and his latest feature
Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose
(Some serious gourmet shit)
Battle RoyaleWhen Ella Taylor asked me to rename my top five films of all time, I tattled off the obvious titles. She then asked, "Any since the last 17 years?""In my top five?" I asked incredulously. "Well, okay, top 10," she relented."Well, let me think about that."And upon later reflection, I rea ... More >>
Michael Manns latest is fast and furious
It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Superbum?
Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy
Los Angeles Film Festival finally comes of age
Also Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace and more
E3rd Steakhouse
Shootout memorial turns surreal
Violent shootouts and dangerous love in Mann’s visceral cop series update
Think you can keep up with the Miami Vice director?
(In a Good Way)
Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator
American and European movies go to work
Thank God for big expensive favors
Michael Mann’s nerve-rattling Collateral
With Boomtown and Robbery Homicide Division, the city is in
Carl Franklin does what he can with High Crimes
The years best films
Sparring for credit on Ali
Michael Mann’s Ali; plus, Gosford Park and Kate & Leopold
A few of our favorite reads this year
The best of '99
Michael Mann's The Insider
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and the restored Grand Illusion
