Paul Giamatti

Please Subscribe: New Documentary Looks at What Makes a YouTube Star

See also: *Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera and Friends Create a YouTube Channel *Our Profile of YouTube Star Jenna Marbles *Our YouTube Issue Some people like to have only egg whites in their omelet," declares a tomboyish young woman as she weaves around a sparsely appointed L.A. apartment kitchen, h ... More >>

John Dies at the End Review: A 'One Crazy Night' Movie Stuck in the Slacker Sensibility of 1996

Doing the Best With the Least: 5 Great Aspects of Disappointing 2012 Movies

In a piece about good acting in bad movies he wrote last year, A.O. Scott suggested that "You might almost say that greatness shows itself precisely in the discrepancy between the performance and the material." It's in keeping with this notion that we've decided to highlight some of 2012's overachie ... More >>

AFI Fest 2012: Four Trends to Watch For

Why James Adomian's Debut Is A Lock For Comedy Album Of The Year

On comedian James Adomian's debut album Low Hangin' Fruit, his celebrity impressions are so well-developed that it's sometimes hard to tell where they end and when his true voice begins. After honing his craft at Groundlings and the UCB Theater, the 32 year-old L.A. native has made his mark in rece ... More >>

David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis: Director Tells Us How He Adapted Don DeLillo's Novel for the Screen

One of the most interesting things about Cosmopolis, writer-director David Cronenberg's extraordinary adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel by the same name, is that it's the first script Cronenberg has both written and shot since 1999's eXistenZ. Additionally, his adaptation of Cosmopolis marks the fir ... More >>

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

The Ides of March Review

George Clooney's fourth feature as director attempts to capitalize on the fall of Obamamania

Film at LACMA is Dead. Long Live LACMA Film?

Not a portrait of Michael Govan, but a still from Edward Scissorhands, from LACMA's upcoming Tim Burton series.​ BY RICHARD NATALE Two years ago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan proposed suspending the then-41-year-old weekend film program because it was losing money ... More >>

Win Win

Barney's Version Review

Paul Giamatti stars in the film of Mordecai Richler's novel

Brittany Murphy, the Japanese Sideways and a Psychedelic Hospital at the Japan Film Festival 2010

The Ramen Girl (C) Digitalsite Corp./Media 8 Entertainment. Ramen Girl​ Shrinking from ten days to two, eighteen feature films to nine, and migrating east from last year's Santa Monica location to the New Beverly Cinema, the 2010 Japan Film Festival offered large crowds a taste of the past y ... More >>

The Populist: Date Night's Shawn Levy

From Yale drama to his latest film, there's more to this multiplex master than meets the eye

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

Cold Souls: Paul Giamatti’s Unbearable Weightness of Being

Actor brings the funny, but his new film lacks something deeper

How To Be An Asshole, L.A. Version

GO LA: Alvin Ailey, Karen Kilgariff and the Bloody Truth About Downtown

(But not all at once): What to do, March 20-26

Spy vs. Spy: Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity

Julia Roberts goes mano a mano with Clive Owen

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 >>

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 >>

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

Happy-Go-Lucky: Driver's Eddie

As film’s angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

John Adams: America's Middleman

HBO's patriot gamesmanship

Film Reviews: Choking Man, Fred Claus, P2, Steal a Pencil for Me

Paul Schneider and the Real Career

With breakout roles in Lars and the Real Girl and The Assassination of Jesse James, a North Carolina native braces for the Hollywood big time

Shoot 'Em Up: Owen, Clive Owen

He could have been a killer Bond

The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

Who’ll suffer the children?

Red Any Good Carpets Lately?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Search for Satori

The not at all private life of Allen Ginsberg

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

Including Woody Allen's Scoop

Aquawoman

M. Night Shyamalan’s (ego)maniacal bedtime story

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Howard’s Beginning

Despite her industry pedigree, Opie’s daughter charts her own course

The Old Joy of Sundance

At this year’s festival, the gems were in the margins

The Last Hallowed Haunting

Punch Drunk Schmaltz

Cinderella Man ties on the kid gloves

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

2004 in Film

The Meta-Media Madness Top 10

Here’s What Happened, Sweetheart

How Sideways co-star Thomas Haden Church grew himself a 10-foot face

Rare Vintage

Sideways is good to the last gulp

The Ballad of Mel and Jesus

Christ, you know it ain't easy

Best in Film: Scott Foundas

American Splendors

Kevin Costner and Harvey Pekar deliver the goods

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

Private Lies, Public Lives

Aldrich Ames, Walter Winchell, Harry Houdini