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  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    2012 Best Picture Nominees: Performed by L.A. Bars and Restaurants

    Playing host and home to the Academy Awards, this town vibrates with excitement (Editor's note: Or something, depending on your thoughts re 9/11 and Hawaiian shirts, Harvey Weinstein and whether or not you, too, wanted a refund after seeing The Artist, as did some folks in Liverpool) by the end of F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    October 6, 2011

    The Ides of March Review

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

  • Film+TV

    September 22, 2011

    Moneyball Review

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

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

    ​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 16, 2010

    Movie Review: Jack Goes Boating

    ​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 22, 2010

    Life During Wartime: Happiness Recast

    Todd Solondz on the new roles, and new life, in his latest film

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Fish feel pain. Guess Cobain was wrong. [Huffington Post Food] -- Ralph's grocery chain is, apparently, ripping you off. [Grub Street] -- L.A.'s best al fresco cocktails spots. [The Rundown] -- A ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2009

    Rock Picks: MIKA MIKO, SILVER PINES, OLIN & THE MOON, LIVING THINGS

    Also, Tim Eriksen, Spaceland on Ice With Twilight Sleep, and others

  • Film+TV

    October 15, 2009

    Beasty Boy: Where the Wild Things Are

    ... according to Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Megadeth vs. Metallica: Both Have "Gone Down the Shitter"

    Gotta love the Internets. "Rust in Peace was one of the hardest-ass fucking metal albums I've ever heard in my life. I even like the bass solo on 'Dawn Patrol.' That's a great fucking bass solo. I don't give a shit what anybody says." "I noticed that about the same time that Metallica started su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2009

    G'day Sundance

    For the first time in its 25-year history, the Sundance Film Festival opened Thursday night with a movie from Australia. It was also the first time the festival has opened with a feature-length animation -- one, I feel confident in saying, that is among the strangest animated films ever made. Writte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2009

    Sundance Film Festival 2009: G'day Sundance

    For the first time in its 25-year history, the Sundance Film Festival opened Thursday night with a movie from Australia. It was also the first time the festival has opened with a feature-length animation -- one, I feel confident in saying, that is among the strangest animated films ever made. Writte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Sundance, R.I.P.?

    "Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

    "Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 8, 2009

    For Your Reconsideration: Doubt’s Viola Davis

    One-scene wonder

  • Film+TV

    December 11, 2008

    Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism

    J’accuse!

  • Film+TV

    October 23, 2008

    Synecdoche, New York: Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Latest

    The world is a stage

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Interview: Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York

    By Liz Ohanesian Philip Seymour Hoffman (L) and Charlie Kaufman (R) on the set of Synecdoche, New York. There will be a moment in Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) when you realiz ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 29, 2008

    Some Alternative Cannes Awards

    Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2008

    Coachella, Day One: The National, the Sunset, and the Masses

    The National at Coachella, Day One. By Chris Martins Photos by Timothy Norris The National were off to a strong start, but something wasn't right. The weather was just shy of idyllic; the band - expanded to seven with the addition of horns - was almost synced; the crowd was flirting with movement ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 3, 2008

    The Year’s Best Characters

    Support group

  • Film+TV

    December 20, 2007

    Charlie Wilson’s War: Go, Mujahedeen, Go!

    A collision of good intentions and unintended consequences

  • Film+TV

    November 29, 2007

    Savage Love

    Testing the limits of familial bonds, one nursing home at a time

  • Film+TV

    November 29, 2007

    Family Circus

    In her first new film in a decade, Tamara Jenkins keeps it real

  • LA Life

    November 8, 2007

    Get Off Your Rocker and Slam!!

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Film+TV

    November 8, 2007

    Film Reviews

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Film+TV

    November 1, 2007

    The Lower Depths

    Bad things happen to bad people in: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

  • Film+TV

    October 25, 2007

    Sidney Lumet's Long Journey

    Venerable director returns with a devilish thriller

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Features

    Venerable director returns with a devilish thriller

  • News

    February 1, 2007

    Chest of Lies

    Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance

  • Film+TV

    January 25, 2007

    Once in a Sundance

    Early Festival Report: Scott Foundas scouts Main Street for undiscovered talent and comes away singing

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2006

    Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants

    I wasn't at Banksy's Barely Legal opening party last night, but I did bump in to OBEY artist Shepard Fairey later on at La Cita downtown, and he told me all about it. He said that it was 'amazing' (not an unexpected response from Fairey, who believes Banksy to be one of the most important ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 4, 2006

    Cruise in Control

    The Syracuse kid saves the world in style

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    How Gay Will Oscar Go?

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

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    2005 in Film

    Notes on the pleasures of kiddie moviegoing and weeping into your stir-fry

  • Columns

    December 8, 2005

    Rocking Horses

    Notes on the pleasures of kiddie moviegoing and weeping into your stir-fry

  • Film+TV

    September 29, 2005

    Chameleon

    A new biopic sheds light on the many guises of Truman Capote

  • Film+TV

    May 26, 2005

    Working-Class Hearts

    The local heroes, fools and vagabonds of HBO’s Empire Falls

  • Film+TV

    March 11, 2004

    Things Change

    Spartan, Mamet’s off his game

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Song of the South

    Cold Mountain’s glow is somewhat too golden

  • Art+Books

    September 11, 2003

    The Sound and the Fury

    Lester Bangs and the relevance of rock criticism

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Truth or Consequences

    Washington soars, Lee stumbles

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Howard’s End

    A Beautiful Mind; plus, The Shipping News

  • Stage

    January 18, 2001

    New York, New York

    Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

  • Stage

    January 6, 2000

    What It Was

    Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

  • Film+TV

    December 30, 1999

    The End Is Near!

    The last movies of the century

  • Film+TV

    December 23, 1999

    This Is Your Life

    Paul Thomas Anderson's third symphony

  • Film+TV

    October 22, 1998

    The Atrocity Exhibition

    Notes on Happiness and Hollywood

  • Film+TV

    March 12, 1998

    The Brothers Freak

    In which the Coens sing the praises of dope, bowling, loyalty and sloth

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