Peter Morgan

Rush Is Something Rare: An Action Movie for Grown-Ups

Helen Mirren Plays Queen Elizabeth II Again: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 28 Helen Mirren reclaims the crown in a live broadcast of Peter Morgan's new play, The Audience, on Saturday. Mirren and Morgan previously collaborated on award-winning film The Queen, proving they've got the goods in capturing the essence of ... More >>

HEREAFTER

End of the Decade: Alien Nation

Notes on unseen masterpieces, great performances, and movies as a form of solitary confinement

EASTWOOD ON THE PITCH

At 79, Clint tackles Mandela in Invictus

Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair

Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

Stage Raw: Photograph 51

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS.BRODER AND SMITH ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Macbeth, Falling Upward

Also, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, Makin' Hay and more

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

L.A. Gets Water Boarded The DWP's board of directors has voted to impose penalties on consumers who don't cut their water use by 15 percent this summer. Associated PressStroke Fells Keach/Nixon A mild stroke has knocked actor Stacy Keach out of the Richard Nixon role he'd been playing in Frost/Nixon ... More >>

Jon Stewart, Jim Cramer and Frost/Nixon at the Ahmanson

See Dick run

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Frost/Nixon

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FROST/NIXON Alan Cox and Stacy Keach in Frost/Nixon Photo by Carol RoseggAfter Stacy Keach as Nixon in Frost/Nixon, which opened last night at the Ahmanson, finished a late night pho ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

For Your Reconsideration: Frost/Nixon’s Michael Sheen

Welsh actor’s turns as real-life British legends run the gamut

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

An Early Frost, and Nixon

The Other Boleyn Girl: Sister Act

Sibling rivalry can be a heady affair

The Blair Switch Project

Love and Salvation

Longford looks back on a British lord and the murderess who captured his heart

Absolute Power

The rise and fall of The Last King of Scotland