Paul Feig

Spoken Reasons, the YouTube Poet, Jumps to Hollywood in The Heat

There are plenty of YouTube "stars" on the Internet -- written with quotation marks because they rarely are recognized by age groups outside their target audience of teenagers. But this past week, Spoken Reasons, born John A. Baker Jr., went beyond his subscribers' computer screens and onto the silv ... More >>

The Heat Would Be More Likable If It Stopped Yelling Everything

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

LACMA Goes Hollywood With Elvis Mitchell

Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Bridesmaids Review

Stars of Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared Converge at Paley Fest Reunion

Many beloved television series get asked back to the Paley Festival during their runs. Then there are those short-run shows whose brief lives on air have been surpassed by their staying power with audiences so that a retrospective draws passionate fans back for more. Such is the love for Judd Apatow ... More >>

APATOW FOR AMUSEMENT

I Was A Nerd Before You Were a Nerd

LA People 2009: Radio Guy — Jesse Thorn

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massive spectacle ones, should be inclusionary rather than exclusionary. How else are we going to regain the sense of reading as a fun, sexy thing to do ... More >>

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Just a Lonely Boy

Jason Segel lets it all hang out

Get Lit

L.A.'s literary salons: club-hopping for bookworms

A Considerable Town

Freaks and Geeks on Sunset

Letters

Same As It Ever Was

Nothing can stop the new fall season

Letters

Too Good and Weird

The Happy Life and Inevitable Death of Freaks and Geeks

God, the Devil and NBC

One show cancelled, one show begun

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

Tyro Mania

The teen dreams of Popular, Freaks and Geeks and Roswell