Oliver Stone

The Magic Bullet Theory

Oliver Stone

Savages Review

Oliver Stone's drug-trade drama Savages settles for sensation

Val Kilmer as Mark Twain: "Anybody Trying to Find a Point in This Will Be Shot"

See also: *Our review of Ryan Adams, for whom Kilmer as Twain opened *Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match A bomb threat has sealed off the streets surrounding us, but Val Kilmer is calm. His long blond hair tied back into a loose ponytail, the actor is wearing a blue blazer, blue and ... More >>

Gil Cates dies at 77

Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

Paz Lenchantin, Psychedelic Goddess

The Entrance Band's bassist discusses her inspirations and their Satellite residency

L.A.'s Simon Wiesenthal Center: 'Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'

Mel, this list needs you.​TMZ called it (as usual): Mel Gibson didn't make the "Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'' list? Surprising, innit? It's a whole new era in unenlightened Jew hating. And the L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has the list of fresh recruits. At the top, former Associa ... More >>

We Are All Hoarders

Worst movie year ever? Or is Hollywood just feeding our addiction to garbage?

Twist and Shout

South of the Border: Natural-Born Shillers

Oliver Stone and his South American pals team up

Oliver Stone Can Dish It Out, But He Bristles At Tough Questions About His New 'South Of The Border' Documentary

Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez.​People like Oliver Stone give the left a bad name. Their with-me-or-against me attitude makes public discourse a sideline to their much-more important marching orders. That much seemed to be on display when the director met up with KPCC (89.9 FM) host Larry Mantle ... More >>

I Love Rock & Roll (Movies): The Nightranger's Guide to LA Band-dom On Film

[Lina Lecaro writers our amazing Nightranger column every week. Check out her explorations of LA nightlife here.] With The Runaways bringing rock n' roll to movie theaters this week (see a report from the premiere here), we've been thinking about our favorite band n' beat packed films lately. Docum ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY! -- EUGENE MIRMAN

People's Historian Howard Zinn Dies In Santa Monica

​History professor and author Howard Zinn, well known for his populist A People's History of the United States, died in Santa Monica Wednesday at the age of 87, Daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said he suffered a heart attack. His most-famous tome dissected American heroes, accused Christopher Columb ... More >>

Summer Movies: Villains and Heroes, Robots and Mad Men

Secret plot for Wall Street 2, huge tracking for Transformers 2

How Acclaimed Indie Director Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk

A tale of two movies

Voters' Guide to Controversial Political Measures: Links to all Coverage Here

*Proposition 6: The Most Implosive By Max Taves October 30, 2008 A tiny, unnoticed clause could allow the use of much looser hearsay in trials. *Questions Still Surround Oliver Stone's W. By Nikki Finke October 30, 2008 Winner or loser? Origina ... More >>

Questions Still Surround Oliver Stone's W.

Winner or loser? Original or borrowed? Investors or Chinese gangsters?

The Other Kennedy

Oliver Stone on W., and the President Who Would Be John Wayne

The son also rises

W.: Bush's Brain

Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's M.O., but who cares?

Secret Agent Men

How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

Making a Killing in the War On Terror

Misfortune begets fortune in Shadow Company

Walk Through the Valley

Don’t let Paul Haggis’ heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Film Reviews: Daddy Day Camp, Stardust

Also this week's pick, 12:08 East of Bucharest

Bad Bugs

Call the exterminator for Exorcist director Friedkin’s latest horror trip

Rent a War

Best place to get props

Home Again

Rehearsing the Apocalypse

World Trade Center buries Oliver Stone

After the Fall

Oliver Stone at ground zero

Stuck in a Winter Wonderland Traffic Jam

L’Étranger in a Strange Land

Michel Houellebecq’s Weekend in L.A.

Heroes and Victims

The view from Gunner Palace

Letters

Letters

Oliver Stone Apologizes to Turkey

And Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express, reacts

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Downsized

American and European movies go to work

Alexander the Not-So-Hot

Oliver Stone aims for respectability

Que Viva Mexico

Mexican cinema, past and present

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

The Hired Hand

The Hired Hand

Alejandro Iñárritu revs up the boss’s BMW

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Flights of Fancy

Ken Annakin’s magnificent adventure

Street Crime

New series from Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana -- and Shaun Cassidy

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

Blacklist Backlash

The Six-Strings Mystique

Better living through metal