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An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development

The dishy media blitz for the new, fourth season of Arrested Development has begun, kicking off with Bateman's recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel. He said the timing will be unconventional, playing out in divided unison. Each episode will follow a different character through the same segment of time, ... More >>

Traffic Experts Crap All Over Eric Garcetti's Million-Dollar Gridlock Prize

At Thursday's mayoral debate, Councilman Eric Garcetti suggested offering a $1 million prize to whoever can solve L.A.'s traffic problems.You might think that traffic experts would be excited about that. But you would be wrong."The solution to L.A.'s traffic problem is a political issue," said Marti ... More >>

Wendy Greuel And Eric Garcetti Debate, But Expected Fight On Education Fizzles

Mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti met on Thursday night for their first one-on-one debate. But on the hot topic of the week -- education reform -- an expected confrontation fizzled.Greuel did challenge Garcetti on the issue, but she passed up an opportunity to put Garcetti on the def ... More >>

Eight Great Shows You Haven't Binge-Watched on Netflix Yet

Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

How to Be an L.A. Cinephile

With so many indie films and repertory screenings, how do the city's movie buffs manage it all?

Russell Peters Chats About Why a Wildly Successful Comic Still Has Trouble Getting Traction in Hollywood

Russell Peters is probably the only arena-size comic right now who hasn't gotten into trouble for making homophobic slurs or punching a Target employee. Of Indian heritage, but raised Catholic, he's huge in his native Canada; he hosted A Russell Peters Christmas Special in 2011 with fellow Canadian ... More >>

KPCC's Madeleine Brand Problems: Readers Respond

Rapper Jonathon Marcou Lives Out of His Car. No, Literally

Standing outside his champagne-colored Saturn wearing a USC sweatshirt, Jonathon Marcou looks like just another good-looking frat boy. His khakis are pressed and cuffed, he wears Vans boat shoes with no socks and his long lashes almost brush the lens of his fashionable tortoise shell glasses. But ... More >>

Gina Keating's New Book About the Rise of Netflix

In Gina Keating's new book, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs, the story of the rise of Netflix sounds almost as juicy as those in the movies it rents out in those signature red envelopes: Two Silicon Valley tech dreamers turn a DVD-by-mail service into a $3 billion empire. Along ... More >>

Brody Stevens and Garfunkel & Oates on Their New Series for HBO Go

See also: *Brody Stevens Speaks Out About his Infamous Twitter Meltdown For three LA comedians looking to expanding their reach, HBO GO is offering a platform through its new batch of original programs, designated HBO Digitals. Available only to HBO subscribers, HBO GO launched early last year and ... More >>

Our Bluth Period

5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988

What's nice about the Arrested Development-themed art exhibit at Gallery 1988 Melrose is that you only need to have watched the first two episodes of the series to get the exhibit's title, "There's Always Money In The Banana Stand." The highly acclaimed but short-lived sitcom about the dysfunctiona ... More >>

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Art Show Attracts David Lynch Die-Hards

Twenty years ago auteur filmmaker David Lynch elicited delight and (mostly) rancor from fans by making a film based on his critically successful TV series Twin Peaks called Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Only the staunchest of Twin Peaks fans seemed to appreciate the way the film amplified the TV se ... More >>

Get a Life!

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

The New Sex Flick

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

Pablo Ferro at Cinefamily: Batshit Genius and YouTube Predecessor Whose Dr. Strangelove Trailer Was Better Than the Movie, Kubrick Said

Pablo who? You've seen his work. You've seen people ripping off his work. He's the artist / mastermind behind the Dr. Stranglove title sequence...you know that one, right? The one that visually summarizes the Cold War with a sexually suggestive mid-air refueling; an explicit casual encounter between ... More >>

Rocket Video, Hollywood's Storehouse for Cult Movies, To Close

RocketHollywood.com​Film lovers, brace yourselves. A prolonged period of mourning is in order, as legendary Rocket Video closes its doors at the end of the month. The independent video rental store has been a fixture in Hollywood for over thirty years, due to its trove of hard-to-find classic ... More >>

D. Tucker Smith's Quake

Pauly Shore's Vegas Is My Oyster on Showtime: Former MTV VJ Gets a Curb Your Enthusiasm-Style Special

Pauly Shore, respectable businessman​Pauly Shore sits behind a desk in his office at The Comedy Store waiting to take a call. At 4 o'clock, he'll get on the phone with a buyer at Netflix and attempt to convince them to make his new Showtime special Vegas Is My Oyster, along with most of his ot ... More >>

The Long Tail Of Lil B: Why The Based God Is A Genius

Some people say quantity is not quality ... but what if someone came along and rewrote all the rules? It's no secret that rap's resident weirdo, Berkeley's Lil B The Based God is a new media powerhouse.  Until recently, he existed almost more online than in the real life. That's because the ... More >>

Five Nerd Heroes From LA Weekly's New People Issue

Patton Oswalt and Grumpus​ LA Weekly's brand new People Issue, out on newsstands Thursday, has enough nerd heroes to fill a whole, err, nerds don't know sports. But they do like systems and categorization, and so we put them in a list: 5. James Urbaniak

Booze with Werner Fucking Herzog, Dinosaurs, and a Bunch of Bands for Free

​The young and the sexy writhing out their witch house tunes for skeletons of extinct species! Forbidden French photographs hidden inside a giant "experiential installation"! Werner fucking Herzog live and in person presenting a 3D documentary about the origins of the modern human! Tomorrow ni ... More >>

Got a Question for Our Film Critic? Announcing the Debut of "Ask Karina"

​ Following in the footsteps of LA Weekly's esteemed food critic Jonathan Gold, who writes the entertaining "Ask Mr. Gold" column, our film critic Karina Longworth (who wrote this week's great cover story on Kevin Smith) would like to announce the debut of her own question-and-answer feature, ... More >>

LACMA Salutes 50 Years of Cannes Discoveries

Screening series draws on La semaine de la critique

Educating Maria

On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

The Trials of Westside Chinese: California Wok

Ben CalderwoodCalifornia Wok's Seafood Fantasy at home​ It's a ubiquitous foodie refrain: There's no good Chinese on the Westside. Followed immediately by foodie Verse Two, the commandment Go east. Since the demise of Royal Star Seafood at Stanford Avenue and Wilshire, which was aspirational a ... More >>

Federal Ruling In Favor Of Limiting Internet Access Could Be Mixed Blessing For Hollywood

​A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday that would allow Comcast to limit customers' access to heavy-file downloading and other sites that take up a lot of data "pipe" could be a mixed blessing for Hollywood. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the ... More >>

Mexicans: Intellectually Lazy Walking Greenhouses?

The 10 (or 17) Best Films of 2008

Coming soon to a theater, er, HDTV near you

Over the Weekend: Plushies & Furries, The Cure's Secret Show, Ugly Christmas Sweater Party, Idealist Propaganda and Unique L.A.

For those of you who barricaded yourselves indoors with Netflix because of this weekend's "storm watch," let me just say -- damn, you missed out on some amazing events. Here at the L.A. Weekly, we tossed our umbrellas in the back seat, took our chances with the drizzle and hit up everything from Ric ... More >>

How the Hall Changes Spring Awakening and The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Hot ice and Strange Snow

Razorback

Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!

Me Party Long Time

2 Live Crew, Ron Jeremy and a Germs Biopic

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

The Audience Is Baking

Smiley Face — filmed in THC

Film Reviews: Smiley Face, Beowulf, Confessions of a Superhero, Om Shanti Om

Love in the Time of Cholera, How to Cook Your Life, Salvador Allende

Come Back Into the Dark

Silent Movie Theatre’s Cinefamily is a gym for the mind

Watching the Apocalypse

Cinefile

Marc Maron, Janeane Garofalo and Henry Rollins

At the Silent Movie Theater

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

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Inner Sanctum Mysteries The Complete Movie Collection

Best Pirated-Loot Spots

Freedom of Information

Copyright and its discontents

Waste Not, Crunch Not

Activism doesn’t have to smell like patchouli

The Impossible Dream

A map to the most buried of cinematic treasures