Robin Williams

The Big Wedding is Vile, Racist, and Embarrassing

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Bobcat Goldthwait Interview

On stand-up, leaving Hollywood, and his version of 21 Jump Street

Best Posts of the Week

We'll tell you exactly how they make us feel​Who needs Snakes On A Plane when you've got a Cobra Starship? This week in his kill-yourself-hilarious column Why This Song Sucks Shea Serrano explored the slick New York band's somehow-popular single "You Make Me Feel," proving why it blows using s ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel..."

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Cobra Starship's "You Make Me Feel..." featuring Sabi History: Cobra Starship is a pop band and just about the most hardcore thing to come from New York ... More >>

Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door

Certifiably Jonathan

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months

Grammys: they're nuts!​ [Originally published December 2010] It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago ... More >>

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations

Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

WE'RE JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY

BEST ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

RONA BARES IT

ELEGANTLY SATIRED

I Love You Phillip Morris: Out of the Closet, but Not out in Theaters

Why the funniest, most subversive film of the year — starring Jim Carrey as a gay felon — isn't coming to your local multiplex anytime soon

YOU VIL NOT LAUGH

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman Talks Early Soundtrack Influences

Editor's note: West Coast Sound is thrilled to introduce to our blogging world the director Jason Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, has just opened in Los Angeles and New York, and opens across the country on December 25. The movie stars George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, it's true, but like his ... More >>

Top 10 Food Movies: Eat, Drink, Watch

Whether it's dinner and a movie or popcorn to munch on during the previews, your stomach is often tied to the cinematic experience. From the comic relief of Robin Williams cooking dinner dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire to Meg Ryan moaning over apple pie in When Harry met Sally, food can shape the story (J ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Ninja Assassin, Old Dogs, The Sun

Also, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The End of Poverty? and more

Movie Reviews: The Final Destination, Halloween II, World's Greatest Dad

Also, Cloud 9, Laila's Birthday and more

When Bad Things Happen to Funny People

Doug Stanhope, Elayne Boosler, Merrill Markoe and other standups on the pitfalls of comedy

Jerry Lewis Retrospective at Cinefamily

Turns out the French were right all along about an American comic genius

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

How Acclaimed Indie Director Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk

A tale of two movies

Tim & Eric's Awesome Show live @ the Echoplex 5.5.08

They're so sweet and innocent. Photos by Rena Kosnett. Writing about the experience of seeing Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job! live on tour would be akin to dancing about architecture—some weird, fucked up architecture. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. One certainty is that ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

Also This Christmas, What Would Jesus Buy? and more

The Jon Lovitz interview

That's the ticket

Film Reviews: Dynamite Warrior, License to Wed

Also Joshua, Vitus and more

Night of a Thousand Faces

Spamalot hits Vegas – and brings a lot of Hollywood

Solitary Men: Reign Over Me and The Shooter

Sandler and Wahlberg go their own ways

Film Reviews

Including Freedom Writers

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

Barnyard, Brothers of the Head, The Night Listener and more

Film Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

Save the Gefilte Fish

Darryl Henriques

New Film Reviews

Including this week's picks, William Eggleston in the Real World and Fateless

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Rheum of One’s Own

The creaky displeasures of Mona Lisa Smile and Calendar Girls

Nuts

Masquerades: WeHo Family Values

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Scrutinizing One Hour Photo's lonely guy

Eyes Wide Open

No rest for the wicked in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

Letters

Firesigns of Life

The search continues: Set your clocks forward

Neighborhood Bars & Nightclubs

Jobberwacky

Stocking Stuffers

And a few lumps of coal