Michael Moore

Michael Moore Caught Exaggerating LAX Oscars Detainment -- What Else Is New?

First Michael Moore came out swinging on Twitter. Clueless customs officials at LAX had detained an Academy Award-nominated Palestinian filmmaker, he claimed. They "couldn't understand how a Palestinian could be an Oscar nominee." Even producing an "Oscar invite" wasn't good enough. The filmmaker, E ... More >>

International Food Blogger Conference 2011: This Year, Blog on the Beach

​If you're a Los Angeles food blogger, you might want to plan on spending the weekend of November 11-13 scribbling on your iPad and uploading pictures of chocolate-dipped madeleines in Santa Monica, rather than in your kitchen somewhere else. No, Roy Choi is not holding a pop-up kimchi and tac ... More >>

Doug Stanhope: Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

​ Instead our usual insipid questions with the brilliant comic, Mr. Stanhope enlisted his fans to submit their own insipid questions. Do you think social media is a positive or detrimental thing? It's like a dildo on a power-drill. It depends on how you use it.

Six Most Idiotic Attempts to Blame Musicians for Violent Events (or, the Tucson Tragedy Was Caused by a Crazy Person, Not by Drowning Pool's "Bodies Hit the Floor")

6 Horrible Acts of Violence Blamed on Music

Inside Job: Greed, Interrupted

Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger-pointing, Charles Ferguson's latest will make you seethe

Pacific Palisades Residents Annoyed By Late-Night Motorcycle Mayhem On Sunset Boulevard

​Residents of Pacific Palisades have rallied in opposition to motorcycle groups 'popping wheelies' late at night and vrooming louder than the state-legal 90 decibels per vehicle down Sunset Boulevard. According to the Palisades Post, a group of 21 residents went to the Los Angeles Police Dep ... More >>

Harmony and Me and Frustration

Smart, bawdy and popular comedy can't land a distribution deal

KCET Finds California Workers Allegedly Shipped To Mexico for Medical Treatment

Michael Moore's health-care documentary 'Sicko.'​On Thursday KCET's SoCal Connected (8 p.m.) will air an investigation of the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) that found ultra-low fines for on-the-job worker deaths ($350 in once case) and an organization so u ... More >>

Capitalism: A Love Story's Awful Truth

Michael Moore sells the same old shtick

Movie Reviews: Adam, Aliens in the Attic, The Collector

Also, Lorna's Silence, G-Force, Not Quite Hollywood and more.

The Cove: Free Willy, Seriously

Documentary exposes the horrific treatment of dolphins, but who will save the salmon?

LA People 2009: The Writer — Ray Bradbury

Sundance Highs and Lows

Moving mountains, growing wings

Movie Reviews: Berkeley, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust, Caution

Also this week's pick, Colma: The Musical

They Shoot, They Score

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the International Documentary Association polled its members (themselves filmmakers, industry executives, and academics) to determine the 25 best documentary films of all time. The results, announced publicly last week, span more than 50 years of movie histor ... More >>

Sicko's Bitter Pill

Michael Moore’s new movie delivers a harsh diagnosis to the American health care system. Also a Q&A with Moore

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

Austin City Limits

Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at SXSW 2007

Fucking the Government

Perverted truth and kinky sex in Shem Bitterman’s new play about Iraq

The Black Album

Sean Huze’s snapshots of war

A Vision of Our Own

Four ideas for the left to redefine itself

Roseanne Barr’s Domestic Policy

The working-class hero knows you’re hurting and wants to help

Docs on the Rocks

At Oscar time, many of the year’s best documentaries don’t stand a chance

Four Moore Years

Bush’s nemesis gives it the old college try

Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?

Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

Grand Old Illusions

Exposing the secrets of an empire

Bloggers’ Report

Different Drum

After Vegas, Linda Ronstadt finds refuge in L.A.

The Boston Braying Party

The Democratic Convention misses the point

Giving Conservatives Moore Nightmares

Robert Greenwald talks about his journey from TV nice guy to nemesis of the right-wing

Letters

Burning Bush

Fahrenheit 9/11 stokes the anti-Bush bonfires

Letters

Please, Sir, I Want Some Moore

Post cards from Cannes

Letters

Moore Is Less

One stupid white man’s problem with the man in the ball cap

American Bigmouth

Why Michael Moore won’t shut up

Left Out

Missed opportunities in taking back the White House

A Fairy Tale

The latest presidential candidate arrives in shining armor

The 10 Most Influential Books of the Past Year

When Moore Is Not Enough

The Oscars give peace a glance

Full Metal Jeer

God, the Marines and American Idol

Life at Ground Zero

Chief Bratton takes aim at gang violence

Baby Greens

Politics may be a drag, but kids today are turning Green instead of tuning out

Letters

A Man Escaped

Sandler runs with Punch-Drunk Love (plus Bowling for Columbine)

Letters

Un Certain Disregard

The 55th Cannes film festival

Barnstorming

Michael Moore touches down

UnLucky Strike

The story behind California's worst law