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The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Tuesday, December 25 Cody Bryant VIVA CANTINA Believe it or not, there are actually a few clubs open on Christmas. Over at Liquid Kitty in West Los Angeles, DJ Charlie X is spinning a no-cover mix of punk rock and various hits from that lost decade, the 1980s. Across town, at Viva Cantina in Burban ... More >>

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

Fall In Love With the Beats All Over Again

Redd Kross Have a New Record After 15 Years

See also: Still a Malcontent: A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off! The McDonald Brothers, the driving force behind punk legends Redd Kross, stand well over six feet tall and have awkward gaits. Ahead of their new album -- Researching the Blues, our today -- they're sitting together ... More >>

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Review

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

AFI wraps edition

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Vincent Price Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

Handicapping the Oscars out of Toronto won't work this year

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

Another Trip: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Four Movies Opening This Weekend, as Pirates of the Caribbean Scares Away Competition

​ As Cannes winds down and the movie world waits with baited breath to find out just what exactly the ramifications of being declared "persona non grata" for calling yourself a Nazi really are, it's a slow week for theatrical openings, headlined by two out-of-competition Cannes premieres. 4. ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Esperanza, the Upsetter

Fantastic Planet

Head: The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Stage Raw: Head, The Musical

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Cornerstone's Making ParadiseNEW REVIEW GO HEAD: THE MUSICAL ​Photo by Irene HoveyComposer-lyricist Kevin Fry's delightfully campy horror musical, based on Roger Corman's 1962 gore-fest The Brain That Wouldn't Die, is not only enjoyable on the level of Midnigh ... More >>

IT'S SORTA LIKE CANNES, BUT WITH MORE BOOBS

WHO LOVES YA JOHNNY

The Best of the Past

The resurection of a forgotten master spearheads LAFF's diverse retrospective offerings

School of Rock

As his two L.A. punk classics get DVD reissues, B-movie legend and mentor to masters Roger Corman takes a victory lap

TWILIGHT HERO

Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises

Eggshells: the Texas Hippie Love-in

Director Tobe Hooper’s long-lost debut feature returns

The Oscars: B-Movie King Gets A-List Award

B-movie king and splatter-flick auteur Roger Corman is getting a lifetime achievement Academy Award, the Associate Press is reporting Wednesday.Roger Corman​The director and producer is behind hundreds of horror films, including Children of the Corn, Death Race 2000 and Piranha, that are so graphi ... More >>

TERROR! GORE! -- SORE ASS!

THEATER REVIEWS: HEYDRICH/HITLER/HOLOCAUST, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Also, GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE and more

Movie Reviews: Adam, Aliens in the Attic, The Collector

Also, Lorna's Silence, G-Force, Not Quite Hollywood and more.

Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery

Comic-Con 2008: For Love of the Con

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

Don't Mess With the Fanboys, Not Even for $500 Million Deals

The horror, the horror

Truckin’ Down the ‘Vard with Papa Joe

"Dante's Inferno": Hollywood Boulevard & Truck Turner The New Beverly Cinema, April 11 The New Beverly Cinema’s runaway-hit series of director-programmed festivals has proved a rousing success so far, with slates lovingly prepared by the likes of Edgar Wright and Eli Roth. It was only a matter ... More >>

Wild Imagination

Charles B. Griffith, 1930-2007

Double-Cross at the WGA

If you write for TV or film in Hollywood, your check might never be in the mail

Grindhouse Gang

Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit

Not of This Earth

American Cinematheque fetes Roger Corman at 80

Who Let the Mother #!%@ing Snakes Out?

Things get hissterical when pheromon-stoked sidewinders get crossways with Sam Jackson

Snap, Crackle, Punk

The Sci-Fi Boys

King Fuzz!

Three new Davie Allan reissues are even sweeter the second time around

Smoke Got in Their Eyes

Watching black-on-white history

The French Connection

From moules frite to tom yam goong

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

The Last Picture Shows

Film’s heroic age at the American Cinematheque

Cinema Tech

Thom Mount and the Los Angeles Film School

Saving General Maximus

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce

Mr. Monster

Korean pulpmaster Kim Ki-young

Head Trip

Jerry Garcia's favorite movie!

Killers, Kisses and Kismet

A darker shade of noir

Bad Girl

The incredibly strange films of Doris Wishman