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Baby Music Sucks

Any self-respecting parent who's gotten high and hooked up and read Camus and shit wants their offspring to grow up cool. And in today's ultra-competitive child-rearing environment, we all know that hipness starts at home. So, the popularity of the Rockabye Baby series is understandable; it's a se ... More >>

Fast and Furious 6 Review: This Is Why We Have Car Chases

Disney Wants To Own Dia De Los Muertos?

Update at the bottom: It looks like Disney is baking away from its claims to Dia De Los Muertos. First posted at 12:38 p.m. It's bad enough that white folk have taken over our land (the Southwest), our food (we're looking at you, Rick Bayless) and our women (Salma Hayek, sort of). Now you want the ... More >>

What Your Favorite Restaurant Says About You

We all have our favorite things that, implicitly or otherwise, reveal a little bit of ourselves. Thus it makes sense that Fraulein Maria would love whiskers on kittens and bright copper kettles, and that Oprah would have many, many favorite things. Which brings us to restaurants that you may consid ... More >>

A LACMA Series Shows How Stanley Kubrick Influenced Science Fiction

Rise of the Guardians Review: With Alec Baldwin as the Voice of Santa Claus, What's Not to Like?

Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me": Why This Song Sucks (Movie Theme Song Edition)

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me" History: "You've Got A Friend In Me" is the theme song from Toy Story. It came out in 1995. Teenagers pretended ... More >>

7 Movies to See in L.A. This Week, Including Cat Movies as an Art Form

Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.:

Brave Review: Pixar's Latest is the Rare Family Film that Actually Has Something to Say

With her flame-colored ringlets, Merida, the barely adolescent heroine of Pixar's 13th feature, looks like a wee Rebekah Brooks, maybe a pint-size Florence Welch. Despite these resemblances, Merida remains an original: Brave, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 10th century, is the animation studio ... More >>

Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" Preemptive Note: Before we get into this, and I don't think this is weird to mention because it's so obviously true, but you'l ... More >>

Academy Awards: How to Game Your Office Pool

Secret World of Arrietty Review

Will Arnett and Amy Poehler give voice to Studio Ghibli's latest hand-drawn feature

Oscar Nominated Shorts Reviewed

Metropolis II at LACMA: Will a Sculpture Made of 1,100 Hot Wheels Predict L.A.'s Future?

Alissa WalkerCould this be L.A.'s transportation future?​ Where once art originated from the front seat of a freewheeling Los Angeles vehicle -- Ed Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip photography series, Dennis Hopper's Double Standard photograph of a gas station -- our kill-me-now tr ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival

Clooney collides with silent classics, while 3-D goes otherworldly

Nine Nation Animation Review

Parking Ticket Scofflaws Cost L.A. Nearly $15 Million: City Controller Wendy Greuel Blames Lax Parking Enforcement

Disney/Pixar​Lax parking enforcement has robbed the city of L.A. of nearly $15 million, money that's much needed at City Hall faces more than $450 in red ink this summer. City Controller Wendy Greuel released an audit of the L.A. Department of Transportation (LADOT) today that found that park ... More >>

Oscar Shorts: Brief Encounters

A showcase for Academy-anointed bite-size cinema

L.A. Animation Festival

Cartoons that make you go hmmm

Victorian Star Wars Paintings: Greg Peltz Imagines Vader as Civil War Officer, Jabba as Robber Baron

​These gorgeous Victorian-styled paintings of Star Wars characters--hello! Jabba the Hutt as a 19th century robber baron!--were done by 23-year-old Alameda resident Greg Peltz. Peltz is technical director at Pixar. I like that Civil War painting of Vader. Do you think Vader would have fought ... More >>

Winding Down

Passing time and finding a new pragmatism in the movies of the ’00s

2009 in Animation: Something in the Way They Move

The most memorable characters were all about the art of the draw

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Creation, Sherlock Holmes

Also, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Cooking With Kids, and Watching Movies With Them Too: The Joys of Ratatouille

PixarRatatouille ​If you have young kids, and have much spent time making sure they know their way around the kitchen, you probably know the drill. Buy them some kids' cookbooks, maybe sign them up for a kids' cooking class, invite their friends over for kitchen projects. My kids' have gone to ... More >>

Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea at LACMA

THE FRESHEST SEAFOOD IN TOWN

$9.99: Tatia Rosenthal’s Mighty Tenner

Director expands the form of the animated feature

Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick

Up with Cannes, Coppola

The best film to open the Cannes Film Festival in the seven years I've been attending, and just a lovely film all around, the Pixar studios' Up (which opens in wide release next Friday, May 29) suggests what Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino might have looked like if, instead of standing his ground, East ... More >>

Cannes Day Zero: J. Hoberman, Live from France

In addition to L.A. Weekly's Scott Foundas, Village Voice's longtime film critic J. Hoberman will be filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Day zero: Hoberman plans his schedule, looks for strawberries, equates Quentin Tarantino's proudly misspelled Inglourious Basterds to ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

Also, Crips and Bloods, Luck by Chance and the 2008 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Bolt's Leashed Lightning

Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

Heading into the Holidays

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

Comic-Con 2008: For Love of the Con

Big crowds, too little sleep and even less food at San Diego's fanboy mecca

Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, Largo, 7/23/08

Randy Newman, Largo, July 23, 2008 Not one of Randy Newman's largest group of fans is here tonight. The Largo is filled with the casually rich, wearing baseball hats and chinos, slightly overweight music execs who made their bones when such a title meant something, movie folks, actors, wives... ... More >>

WALL-E: Robots in Love

Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.

The 2006 Academy Award–Nominated Shorts

Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances

Hollywood starts new year with a bang

Calarts in Moving Pictures: A Mini Tribute

Zoom Zoom

Cars quickens the pulse, stops to smell the roses

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping today’s kiddie-movie landscape

Art Pick: Abo Ovo, Tue., Feb. 7

Old Black Magic

The retro pleasures of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, plus The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Downsized

American and European movies go to work

Pixar Apotheosis

The Incredibles lives up to its title

Brat Brawl

Disney and Comcast fortunate sons need therapy more than this takeover

Someone Fishy

Reeling in Michael Eisner