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Prince Avalanche Director David Gordon Green Finds Inspiration in Texas' Worst Fire Ever

How Friends Illustrates the Depressing Insularity of Our Lives

"I'll be there for you … and others in our census bracket"

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

Like Marriage, This Is 40 Is Long, Aimless and Worth It

10 Best Judd Apatow-Inspired Artworks at Gallery 1988

See also: *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Pee Wee Herman Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Real-life freaks and geeks gathered at Gallery 1988 Tuesday night for the opening of the A Tribute to Judd Apatow ... More >>

10 Best Pop Culture Shout-Outs to the Santa Ana Winds

Southern California's dry winds in fall and winter can rise up to speeds of 90 mph. Commonly known as the Santa Ana winds, they're now making their first attack on the area. Panic has arisen on social media. That can't change the winds' mind, but you can find Twitter accounts personifying the winds ... More >>

Dustin Thomason on His Novel 12.21, a Maya Calendar Doomsday Thriller

L.A. author Dustin Thomason wrote the bestseller The Rule of Four with Ian Caldwell. He's now going solo with 12.21, published in August, about a doctor trying to save civilization from destruction on Dec. 21, 2012, which is when the world will supposedly end, according to the Maya calendar. Publish ... More >>

Wanderlust Review

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd hook up

This Means War Review

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

Drive: Albert Brooks Launches His Third Career Act

Our Idiot Brother Review

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

How Do You Know Review: Funny Ha Ha and Funny Strange

Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd in James L. Brooks' new romcom

Another Fine Mess: From Chaplin to Bromance

A history of cinematic LOLs in Saul Austerlitz's latest

Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits

Lucy Punch​In Woody Allen's latest ensemble film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, English actress Lucy Punch gets her first big laugh without uttering a word. (She's the cleavage-y, ex-hooker type that an aging businessman proudly introduces as his fiance to his dumbfounded daughter.) Recen ... More >>

Paul Rudd: He's an Actor ... Right?

The ... actor ... on playing himself, Party Down and Dinner for Schmucks

Movie reviews: Get Low, Life During Wartime

Also: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno and more

Show Choirs Rock

Movie Reviews: Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Iron Cross, The Young Victoria

Also, The Lightkeepers, My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done and more

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

SCOTT AUKERMAN: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

Movie Reviews: Cheri, My Sister's Keeper, The Stoning of Soraya M.

Also, Dead Snow, Life Is Hot in Cracktown and more

Movie Reviews: The End of the Line, The Proposal, Whatever Works

Also, Daytime Drinking, Irene in Time and more

Piracy, Pickets and Peter Bart

Unrest on the studio, union and trade fronts

I Love You, Man: Eteral Flame

Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance

Heading into the Holidays

Fur goes big, Bond goes missing, girls go vamp and Dark Knight just goes

Movie reviews: House, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Also, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Also, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Dear Zachary and more

Role Models: Big Daddies

A boys-to-men movie not made by Judd Apatow

When Hollywood Goes After White Whales

Thar she blows

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Just a Lonely Boy

Jason Segel lets it all hang out

Caramel, Over Her Dead Body, Tre, The Eye

Plus film pick of the week: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Walk Hard: Hock the Line

Movie sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Geek Love

Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Judd Apatow Explains Himself

Geekology 101

Knocked Up's Daddy Issues

Putting the fear of life into a slacker

Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

Film Reviews: Diggers, Next and Banished

Also Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace and more

Film Reviews

Including The Astronaut Farmer, Gray Matters, Reno 911!: Miami and more

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Film Reviews

No Stunt Hair Necessary

For Steve Carell, the road to movie stardom was lined with dehydration and body waxing

Sex and the Pocket Protector

The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes deep

Form and Dysfunction

Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things and Jordan Melamed’s Manic

Off Center and in Control

On the set with Neil LaBute

Act II

New York theater comes back

B-Pictures

Bull, Bash, Blonde Bombshells and a Sandy Bottom

Enter Smiling

Facing my second millennium of theater

200 Cigarettes and 20 Dates