Michael Mann

Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great -- Why Aren't His Movies?

Koreatown: America's Hippest Neighborhood

Reality show K-Town unmasks the liquid rituals fueling Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood

Don Ferrarone: The Ex-D.E.A. Badass Who Finds Stories for Hollywood

In the credits he's usually listed as associate producer. What it really means is that he's the guy who finds stories. Don Ferrarone, ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agent, finds the real-life people -- the bodyguards, serial killers, narcs, dealers, soldiers, assassins, snipers, henchmen, sp ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top 10 Films of 2011

From Margaret to Moneyball

Phillip Noyce Says 'Film is Dead,' Richard Kelly's Had 'Nothing But Failure' and Ruben Fleischer Bemoans 'Poo Poo Pee Pee Jokes' at LAFF

Timothy NorrisPhillip Noyce​ Phillip Noyce's velvety accent and snow-white mane made his aphorisms sound handed down from on high while Richard Kelly and Ruben Fleischer offered two examples of what it means to be a young filmmaker at a panel of directors at the L.A. Film Festival on Sunday.

"Fuller at Fox": Weird Wars

Fighting life in LACMA's weekend series

A Prophet: Like Scarface but French (and Not Brain-Dead)

With his Oscar-nominated feature, "French Scorsese" Jacques Audiard gives the crime genre new dimension

21st-Century Fox

Romero, Fellow Politicians Support Polanski Extradition

Los Angeles state Sen. Gloria Romero and several Sacramento colleagues signed a letter supporting county District Attorney Steve Cooley's efforts to extradite Roman Polanski, who admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old before fleeing to France in 1978.State Sen. Gloria Rome ... More >>

Hollywood Is All About Karma

Movie studio moguls (Cook, Ross, Shmuger, Linde, Fogelson, Langley) came and went this week

No Punctuation Necessary in The Informant!

Soderbergh's latest gets cute with massive corporate scandal, blows the story

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight: Batman Continues

Heath Ledger cements his legend playing nemesis to Christian Bale's Gotham City hero

Where To Eat Now

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Now

As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies’ most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

Where to Eat Now

Schindler's Houses

It's good to be home

If You Build It, They Will Come

Notes on film festivals, north and south of the equator

Collateral Damage

Zodiac examines the killer’s other victims

The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

From the Depths of Hell to Hollywood

A new documentary charts the remarkable rise of actor Danny Trejo

Punch Drunk Schmaltz

Cinderella Man ties on the kid gloves

Million Dollar Boomer

Paul Haggis and the long road to directing

The Single Guy

He rented his spare room to make ends meet . . . meeting the models just happened

Virgin Zombies

9/11 and Iraq War as Shtick

The misdeeds of Convoluted Rice and Uncurious George are no joke

Things Change

Spartan, Mamet’s off his game

Cold Feet

Coping with uncertainty in Scandinavia and Hollywood

The Pelican Briefs

Hollywood is not messing its shorts over FBI investigation

Aargh!

Pirates of the Caribbean is big, loud, empty

When the Bad are Beautiful

Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge

Eyes Wide Open

No rest for the wicked in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

Watching the Detectives

How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

Caught Looking

New Iranian films, Old World dilemmas

Tinsel-Town Rebellion

Writers, moguls and Hollywood’s day of reckoning

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Brief Encounters

Wan winners and beautiful losers

The Golden Age of Cinema?