Movie Comedies

Macgruber: Late 80s Nostalgia For Boys Born in the 90s.

​ "It's good to be back home in Austin, Texas,' said Jorma Taccone, Saturday Night Live writer and director of Macgruber, the sketch-to-film starring Will Forte and Kristen Wiig that debuted at SXSW last night. He paused for applause. "Actually, I was born and raised in Berkeley, but you guys ... More >>

(Not So) Funny People

Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow Attempt to Yuck It Up Again.

Movie Reviews: American Cowslip, Deadgirl, In the Loop, Orphan

Also, Afghan Star, Shrink, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg and more.

Movie Reviews: The Girl From Monaco, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Kambakkht Ishq, I Hate Valentine's Day

Also, New York and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Sundance’s Best So Far: Push, Cold Souls, Paper Heart

The color ain’t purple

Cold Souls and Paper Hearts

What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left? Would you still be you? These are among the concerns taken up by writer-director Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls, an amusing dive ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher's "Spread" Busted

Defamer's Kyle Buchanan has a nice slice-and-gut of Spread --  Ashton Kutchner's new, Shampoo-esque entry at Sundance. It's a sex comedy about a young lothario sleeping his way north in L.A. Apart from skewering the film on artistic grounds (oh, those) Buchanan goes to town on Spread's impulse ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Cold Souls and Paper Hearts

What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left? Would you still be you? These are among the concerns taken up by writer-director Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls, an amusing dive ... More >>

Role Models: Big Daddies

A boys-to-men movie not made by Judd Apatow

Movie Reviews: Filth and Wisdom, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Splinter

Also, Fear(s) of the Dark, The Other End of the Line and more

Stage Raw: On the Blume

Stage Raw: Speech & Debate

Stage Raw: Underestimating Public Intelligence

Movie Reviews: Young People Fucking, A Secret, Ping Pong Playa

Also, Sukiyaki Western Django, Surfer, Dude, and more

Bad Trips: Pineapple Express, Transsiberian

Not McLovin'

Nobody’s Baby

Tina Fey’s stillborn surrogate- mommy comedy

Up in Smoke: Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Best friends get shipped to Gitmo in this forced Act 2

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Just a Lonely Boy

Jason Segel lets it all hang out

Leatherheads: There Will Be Mud

Clooney tackles preglory gridiron

Theater Listings

For the week of March 14-20

Charlie Bartlett: Kids These Days

Teen comedy could use a dose of mean

Record Reviews: Juno soundtrack, Carpenters ring tone

Also: Disco Not Disco, Trus'me's Working Nights

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

Blog This: 2007’s Best Films

No argument about this list

Juno: Knocked-up Knockout

Ellen Page puts a shine on teen pregnancy

Margot at the Wedding: Born Identities

Family matters in Baumbach’s latest

Dan in Reel Life

Cobbled together from better movies, Steve Carell’s latest is strike two

Film Reviews: War, Mr. Bean's Holiday, Closing Escrow, The Last Legion

Also Dedication, The Hottest State and more

Geek Love

Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking

Superbad's Boys To Men

Teetotaling with Jonah Hill and Michael Cera

Seth Rogen on Finding the Joke and Fatherly Wisdom

Who's your daddy?

Judd Apatow Explains Himself

Geekology 101

Knocked Up's Daddy Issues

Putting the fear of life into a slacker

Carlos Niño

The beginner

Avenue Montaigne's French Kiss

Danièle Thompson sends a warm valentine to the city of lights

Tone Deaf

Songbirds Grant and Barrymore make uninspired Music and Lyrics

No Stunt Hair Necessary

For Steve Carell, the road to movie stardom was lined with dehydration and body waxing

Sex and the Pocket Protector

The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes deep

Mob Rule

Gandolfini upstages Pitt in The Mexican

A Not-So-Fine Romance

When Lopez met McConaughey

The Song Remains the Same

Stephen Frears and John Cusack’s High Fidelity

Return to Sender

Hanks and Ryan sleepless again in You've Got Mail

Days for Night

Sundance ’98