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Jon Favreau to Start His Own Food Truck

From the Department of Verisimilitude, or maybe the Ministry of Silly Hats, comes news from Variety that Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens, Iron Man, Swingers) is starting his own food truck. Or at least he'll play a guy starting his own food truck, which is close enough, right? Favreau will write, dire ... More >>

Iron Man 3 Review: Robert Downey Jr. Goes on Autopilot

What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion

(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

Quit Using "Gimme Shelter" In Every Damn Movie

The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" is the movie soundtrack song that won't die. Martin Scorcese made a cliche out of it decades ago, but since then it not only hasn't gone away, it's become more prevalent in movies and TV. Sure, it's a good song, but mango popsicles are good too and we don't want o ... More >>

Los Angeles Club Kids: Where Are They Now?

On the west coast, the club kids popped up around 1991, the local counterparts of the New York City Party Monster types, attending the types of underground raves your parents explicitly forbade. It wasn't all about drugs, but there were certainly plenty: ketamine, acid, cocaine, ecstasy, and more, s ... More >>

We Attended Cinefamily's Entire 24-Hour Holiday Telethon. Here's the Mind-Blowing Stuff That Happened

It's somewhere on the wrong side of 4 a.m., John Hawkes is casually smoking cigarettes on an outdoor couch, the German actor Udo Kier just went back to the coffin he likely sleeps in, and Cinefamily's back patio looks like the early morning lull after a biker-gang Christmas party. There are beercans ... More >>

Cinefamily's Telethon Will Include Robert Downey, Jr. Digging Up a Time Capsule, and More

Why Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike and Besedka Johnson in Starlet Should Be Nominated for Supporting Actor/Actress Oscars

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). For a long time I thought of Matthew McConaughey as an actor whom I liked more than he deserved. He built some good faith with Dazed and Confused and other early roles, yes ... More >>

Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?

Jonathan Tropper on His Novel One Last Thing Before I Go, About a Former Rock Star Who Now Plays Weddings

Jonathan Tropper's last novel, This Is Where I Leave You (2009), become a New York Times bestseller. Tonight he's signing his new book One Last Thing Before I Go -- about a drummer in a one-hit wonder rock band who now plays weddings -- at The Grove's Barnes & Noble at 7 p.m. Here's our "Ask the A ... More >>

The Amazing Spider-Man Review: The Spider Becomes a Man — and a Joy

'The Avengers' Shawarma Bump Where to Feed Your Craving

Remember that scene in E.T. with the Reese's Pieces? It reportedly boosted sales of the candy so high in 1982 that the Hershey corporation was forced to keep a factory open minting the candies 24/7. The moral of the story? Feature a food in a popular movie and people with not-so-subliminally find th ... More >>

The Avengers Review

Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star movie

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

Steve Lopez Will Look at Grand Plans For L.A. NFL Stadium Downtown on KCET's 'SoCal Connected' Tonight

Steve Lopez better wear a helmet if he's going to take on AEG.​Lots of questions about this proposed downtown NFL stadium. It already has a name, Farmers Field, and a place, space taken up by the Convention Center's old West Hall. But there are no blueprints yet, and its potential environment ... More >>

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A Day In the Life of Hall H: Mostly Awesome, Briefly Chaotic

Nicole CamposThe Avengers, together at last! A genius ending to an insane day...​ The largest exhibition room at the San Diego Convention Center is Hall H, a huge 6,000-plus seater situated at the complex's south end that every year during Comic-Con International hosts the biggest, baddest, an ... More >>

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

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

Also, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Eminem and Jay-Z to Play at Wiltern Tonight for DJ Hero Launch (UPDATED)

Hot Monday night in LA: Eminem and Jay-Z are doing a surprise show at the Wiltern tonight to promote their new relationship with DJ Hero, the hugely anticipated (and contentious) new game from Activision's Hero franchise. Below is an exclusive look at DJ Hero: The two rap superstars recently si ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Movie Reviews: Earth, The Garden, Obsessed

Also, The Informers, The Mutant Chronicles and more

Happy-Go-Lucky: Driver's Eddie

As film’s angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane

AFI Fest Grows Up - Finally!

No, Er, Yes, Doubt

Best Yogi Rock: Vinnie Marino

Best Fitness Guru: Harley Pasternak

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

If only Ben Stiller and company were as hot and naughty as the P.C. protesters complain

The Incredible Hulk: Just Okay

Marvel's latest doesn't live up to its billing

Jon Favreau's Iron Man Has a Heart

Director and Robert Downey Jr. bring soul to the superhero movie

Some Stereo Type

On Steven Mikulan's "Back in Black (and Yellow) Face"

Coachella Day Two: The Accidental Tourist, or Can We Please All Agree To Stop Using the Phrase “Coachella-Ella-Ella-Ella”

I ran into a guy I knew from high school standing in line for the restrooms in the VIP area. I hadn't seen him in a decade but was about four glasses of $7 wine deep and feeling good. No reason not to be friendly, after all, I no longer harbored a grudge from that time in the 11th grade when he tr ... More >>

Charlie Bartlett: Kids These Days

Teen comedy could use a dose of mean

Letters: Driving Concerns

Our readers write

Nightranger

Devil�s Haircut and B-Boys

The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Keanu, Darkly

Reeves and Linklater scan through Dick�s druggie dystopia

Film Reviews

For the week of March 31-April 6

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

Isosceles Triangle

A lopsided Eros

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

The Robert Downey Jr. Celebrity Crime Blotter

Wonder Boys and Girls

Our year at the movies

Don't l Look Like Myself?

Like, a Version

Campus Confidential

Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys

Parallel Lives

Toback�s lovers, Howitt�s lumps

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic