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Gangster Squad Retells the Stories of Better Movies

10 Things to Do in L.A. on Your Last Day on Earth

We're sure you've heard, on December 21, 2012 -- mere days from now -- we're all fucked. According to the latest scientifically astroreligious analysis, the gates of Xibalba, the Mayan Underworld, will open to unleash upon the earth beasts and plagues of unfathomable cruelty and unimaginable horro ... More >>

What 10 Celebs Would Look Like As Old-Timey Criminals

Drug possession, driving under the influence, vandalism and theft are just a few of the crimes celebrities commit to earn them a mugshot that lives on forever on the world wide web. Celebrity mugshots have become a part of pop culture due to the poses or distraught looks they have. But in the 1920s, ... More >>

10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks

See also: *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Rare Mostly Nude Photos *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies Using celebrities as artistic inspiration is certainly nothing new -- just ask anyone who ever tacked up an Andy Warhol poster in a dorm room. Yet, there is ce ... More >>

HBO Cancels 'Luck' for Being Too Realistic

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 >>

Michael Mann's New HBO Show Luck Is So Hard-core That 2 Horses Have Died Already

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 >>

Katt Williams at Nokia Theatre: Controversial Stand-up Tries to Re-Energize His Career

In 2008, stand-up comic Katt Williams was riding high on the success of MTV's Wildin' Out, a couple movie roles, an HBO special and four national tours. His brand of comedy -- weed, pimp culture, black-vs.-whitey jokes, more weed -- had all but infiltrated hip-hop. But then Williams hit a productive ... More >>

Occupy L.A.: An Arrestee's Story

Ted Soqui​Editor's note: Matt Kresling was arrested last Wednesday along with 292 others at the Occupy L.A. encampment. He submitted this first-person account to the Weekly share his reasons for involvement - as well as explain what happened after the arrestees were separated from the watchful ... More >>

Malibu's Blood Alley on PCH

As bodies pile up, the Coastal Commission and Caltrans resist major fixes

Glen Hartford's Hollywood Dream and How It Came to Ruin

Warrior Review

Terrence Malick at LACMA

Filmmaker gets retrospective in advance of upcoming Tree of Life

Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Nolte Invoked For Movie Investment Scam, Feds Allege

Britney was used.​In a town for where handshakes and words often suffice for written contracts, it's easy to see how an alleged scam like this could go down. Two L.A. area men were arrested today on suspicion of running a "boiler room" operation that raised $300,000 for films that weren't pro ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

Mugshots and Tequila Shots: Rocking out at Pete Wentz Angels & Kings Bar

Not a Pete Wentz fan, let's get that out of the way up front. He may be a nice guy and we've got nothing against guyliner or fellas who know their way around a flat-iron (or even his lip-synching wifey), but having to endure his band Fall Out Boy's pop-"punk" schmaltz once for an assigned live revi ... More >>

(Not So) Funny People

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

Movie Reviews: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Dragonball: Evolution, Hannah Montana: The Movie

Also, The Escapist, Forbidden Lies and more

GO LA, the Leonard Cohen Alternative: Mustache Dodgeball and Ron White on Klonopin

Plus, PaleyFest09 and other events to make you forget you fucked up over Leonard Cohen, April 10-16

Ron White Doesn't Heart L.A.

The Weekly Goes to the Movies

When writing about them really mattered

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

If only Ben Stiller and company were as hot and naughty as the P.C. protesters complain

Los Angeles Film Festival Guide 2008

The Children of Huang Shi: Epic Bore

Fact-based tale is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption

The Spiderwick Chronicles: Father Figures, Headshrinkers

Oh, what a tangled web it weaves

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Three’s a crowd in You, Me and Dupree

Western Expansion

Director Walter Hill brings his new cowboy tale to commercial TV

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Yang Ban Xi: The Eight Model Works

Clean and Sober

Olivier Assayas’ hypnotic rock ballad

Take the Long Way Home

16 Blocks delivers a more lethal Donner

Ties That Blind

Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda

That Reprehensible Man and His Flying Machine

Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator

The Other Dr. Strangelove

Bill Condon’s Kinsey, plus Finding Neverland

The Blind Leading the Mauled

White tigers, white men and white mischief

Best in Film: Ella Taylor

Gods and Monsters

And a big hello to Mr. Green Genes

Oh Dad, Poor Dad

Surrogate fathers in The Good Thief and The Son

The True Believer

Righteous inquisitor Paul Schrader casts a baleful eye on celebrity and the perils of absolute selfishness

Sex Lives and Videotape

Auto Focus and the unbearable lightness of Bob Crane

Ordinary Heroes

Harrison’s Flowers transcends its star power; not so Showtime

Eros Bound

Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl

To Know God

A post–New Age dialogue with Dr. Stephan Hoeller

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore

Human, All Too Human

In defense of The Thin Red Line

Manohla Dargis' Hit List

Ella Taylor's Blessings

The Storyteller

Paul Schrader and his (r)aging voices

A Sad Man, A Bad Man, and Two Brawling Moms

Paul Schrader’s Affliction, John Boorman’s The General, Chris Columbus’ Stepmom

Days of Hell

Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line

Notes From Half a Film Festival