Robert De Niro

Matsuhisa: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi. You may be able to eat chef Nobu Matsuhisa's stunning Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine at one of hi ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Disasters, Technicolor and Bertolucci

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

More vampires, noir and Tarr

Graf Orlock's Los Angeles Is All About the Movie Heat

For the past eight years, Los Angeles metal band Graf Orlock have been culling samples and dialogue from action movies like Predator and Lethal Weapon into a manic concoction of noise, punk and grindcore that they call "cinemagrind." The group twists seemingly innocuous dialogue from these badass fl ... More >>

Being Flynn Review

Paul Dano stars in adaptation of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

New Year's Eve Review

Paul Dano stars in adaptation of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Five Cheesiest Moments in Baseball Movie History

SonyDespite the brilliance of Moneyball as a baseball movie -- a really cheesy moment exists in the film.​ Looking to rally moviegoers this weekend is the feature adaptation of Michael Lewis 2003 tome Moneyball, which dramatizes the resurrection of the 2002 underdogs, the Oakland A's, under th ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Winners

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

Limitless

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

LITTLE FOCKERS

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/15-11/19

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As you might have expected, A-Frame, in what looks like an old IHOP tricked out with enough pine and track lighting to make it resemble a ski chalet, is pretty different from the legion of gastropubs." First Bite: Take the A ... More >>

Meet Your New Wine Critic: Robert De Niro

​And the Oscar for Best Wine goes to....As Academy Awards' speeches go, the one given by Robert De Niro on Saturday night stands head and shoulders above the rest. Oenaphiles, sommeliers and vignerons in particular should take note: there's a new wine critic in town. "You talkin' to me?" Presenti ... More >>

STONE

​And the Oscar for Best Wine goes to....As Academy Awards' speeches go, the one given by Robert De Niro on Saturday night stands head and shoulders above the rest. Oenaphiles, sommeliers and vignerons in particular should take note: there's a new wine critic in town. "You talkin' to me?" Presenti ... More >>

Feds, State Bust Up Massive Alleged L.A. ... Tobacco Ring? Yep, Tobacco.

​Retro: State and federal authorities up and down California and over to Vegas have busted up a big non-cigarette tobacco ring that allegedly avoided paying taxes -- $35 million in California excise taxes. A bevy of state and federal agencies were involved in the three-year investigation, rac ... More >>

ONCE IN LOVE WITH HAITI . . .

​Retro: State and federal authorities up and down California and over to Vegas have busted up a big non-cigarette tobacco ring that allegedly avoided paying taxes -- $35 million in California excise taxes. A bevy of state and federal agencies were involved in the three-year investigation, rac ... More >>

Another Happy Cinco De Mayo, This One From L.A.'s Danny Trejo

"This is Machete, with special Cinco de Mayo message ... to Arizona," says Los Angeles-based actor Danny Trejo, in character as "Machete," the antihero in the Robert Rodriguez film of the same name. The movie, with shades of the Arizona immigration-law battle, also stars Robert De Niro (as a Sherif ... More >>

WHO NEEDS ELLIOT STABLER WHEN YOU'VE GOT ELIOT NESS?

"This is Machete, with special Cinco de Mayo message ... to Arizona," says Los Angeles-based actor Danny Trejo, in character as "Machete," the antihero in the Robert Rodriguez film of the same name. The movie, with shades of the Arizona immigration-law battle, also stars Robert De Niro (as a Sherif ... More >>

John Legend, Seal Snowed Out of White House Civil Rights Concert; Dylan, Smokey, Jennifer Hudson Make the Gig

Tonight PBS will air "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement," a concert honoring Black History Month that was taped at Obama's crib last Tuesday. As the WSJ reports, the show was supposed to have been taped yesterday but was hastily rescheduled beca ... More >>

Buy A Piece Of Local Royalty At Hotel Bel-Air Sale

That's armoire.​If filling your abode with cootie-covered furnishings and tableware from a hotel sounds as unsavory to you as it does to us, hold that thought: Goods from the Hotel Bel-Air are up for sale, and the cooties you end up with might have belonged to Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Taylor ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

Pacino's Watch: Lawsuit Keeps on Ticking

With the state teetering on economic Gotterdammerung and its water supplies evaporating by the week, it's comforting to know that we can rely on silly lawsuits to keep on proliferating. Readers will remember how Millennium Films, the makers of Righteous Kill, last year's car bomb starring Al Pacino ... More >>

About Faces

With the state teetering on economic Gotterdammerung and its water supplies evaporating by the week, it's comforting to know that we can rely on silly lawsuits to keep on proliferating. Readers will remember how Millennium Films, the makers of Righteous Kill, last year's car bomb starring Al Pacino ... More >>

Razorback

With the state teetering on economic Gotterdammerung and its water supplies evaporating by the week, it's comforting to know that we can rely on silly lawsuits to keep on proliferating. Readers will remember how Millennium Films, the makers of Righteous Kill, last year's car bomb starring Al Pacino ... More >>

A Bronx Tale

With the state teetering on economic Gotterdammerung and its water supplies evaporating by the week, it's comforting to know that we can rely on silly lawsuits to keep on proliferating. Readers will remember how Millennium Films, the makers of Righteous Kill, last year's car bomb starring Al Pacino ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Save Me, Take Out, Hounddog

Also, The Pool, Ghost Town, Igor and more

Theater Reviews: Red Scare on Sunset, Miracle in Rwanda

Also, Going to Meet the Man, The House of Blue Leaves and more

Movie Reviews: Young People Fucking, A Secret, Ping Pong Playa

Also, Sukiyaki Western Django, Surfer, Dude, and more

When Hollywood Goes After White Whales

Thar she blows

Nightlife Nobu

Matsuhisa dresses up at home

Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Now

As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies’ most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

Film Reviews: Daddy Day Camp, Stardust

Also this week's pick, 12:08 East of Bucharest

The Good Shepherd: Trust No One

De Niro’s somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

News Hounds

De Niro’s somnolent Shepherd leads us not into temptation

Look Hot, Stay Cool

Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

Oscar M. Night

Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

She’s a Keeper

Poolside fashion and beauty tips, as seen on your local hipster

Jacques et Jim

In a reversal of the usual cultural exchange, a classic of the American independent cinema gets remade by a French admirer

Have They No Shame?

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

Night Cruise

Michael Mann’s nerve-rattling Collateral

The 2nd Annual List Issue

Michael Mann’s nerve-rattling Collateral

Museum Piece

The enduring virtues of Jennifer Connelly

Ordinary Heroes

Harrison’s Flowers transcends its star power; not so Showtime

Dualities

Douglas Gordon adrift at the Geffen

Tick, Tick . . . Kablooey!

15 Minutes and Company Man

Cruising for Zombies

A review of local arcade diversions

To Know God

A post–New Age dialogue with Dr. Stephan Hoeller

When Bobby Met Billy

De Niro, Crystal and Two Smoking Barrels

Going to Hell for Fun and Profit

A primer

Passion Play

Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, 25 years later