Roman Polanski

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

Sopranos Creator David Chase Talks About His New Movie Not Fade Away

Seven L.A. Comics Report From the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a festival unlike any other. The 65-year-old whirlwind event lasts the entire month of August and is essentially a free-for-all: interested performers merely have to book their own venue, travel, and accommodation, then show up, self-promote like mad, and pray you ge ... More >>

License Plate Recognition Logs Our Lives Long Before We Sin

Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?

Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking about). ... More >>

A Separation Review

Inside an Iranian family

Vincent Gallo in Essential Killing

Cannes 2011: Lars von Trier Kicked Out

Lars von Trier's Melancholia​ CANNES, FRANCE -- Big news day on La Croisette: First, the only outside story with any traction here became a bit more intense when reports of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation fueled the conspiracy stories to which some French subscribe: Had the IMF chief been ... More >>

Miral: Muddle East Politics

Style but little substance in Schnabel's Palestine plea

Top 10 LA Weekly News Stories Of 2010: Sex, Drugs, One Absurdly Long Tongue And The 'Attempted Lynching' That Shook Los Angeles

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

Elvira's World

Cassandra Peterson, pushing 60 and still Mistress of the Dark

Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

Is Cooley Too Moderate to Win?

In the fight for attorney general, opposing prison for sock stealers is a liability

Steve Cooley: Son of an Eagle Scout

Orange County Judge Sentences Serial Killer and Dating Game Winner Rodney Alcala to Death (UPDATED)

​ (UPDATED after jump): An Orange County judge this morning sentenced convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala to death. Judge Francisco Briseno said the former Los Angeles Times typesetter had an "abnormal interest in young girls." The judge also said Alcala's testimony in court was not credibl ... More >>

Rodney Alcala's Final Revenge

Begged to spare victims' families at trial, the alleged serial killer ratchets up the suffering

Dating Game serial killer suspect Alcala cross-examines himself over his hair

​ Could the trial of alleged "Dating Game" serial killer Rodney Alcala possibly get any stranger? Yep, it can. Alcala, who is representing himself as he faces the possible death penalty in an Orange County court, took the stand Tuesday and began asking questions of himself, in third-person, ab ... More >>

Rodney Alcala: The Fine Art of Killing

One man’s murderous romp through polite society

Weather Balloons and Unemployment

More Crime and Punishment and a virtual Conquest of the South Pole

This Is It Almost Wasn't

The strange, surprising story behind this ghoulish Michael Jackson movie

Ten Great Motorhead Moments for the Unenlightened

We could go twenty, actually, but will stick to ten. Motorhead plays tonight at Club Nokia. Any other information seems superfluous. But: If you've never seen Motorhead and you call yourself a Buddhist, well, you need to look a little deeper within, because nothing clears the mind of extraneous thou ... More >>

The Last Supper: Mansonites Converge at El Coyote

Tetro: Coppola’s Family Business

Papa returns, successfully, to the clan

Is It Helter Skelter for Manson Girl Susan Atkins?

Susan Atkins, who is suffering from brain cancer, will be lucky to see the end of the year. In September, prison authorities quietly moved the 60-year-old Charles Manson follower (who has her own Web page) from an undisclosed hospital in Southern California to the Central California Women's Facility ... More >>

Adapting Oliver Twist and The Joy Luck Club for the Stage

Lit lite

Manson Clan Body Dig Underway

A rural cop convinces Inyo County to probe a remote ranch. Global media descend

Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and ill to get off the phonetics that you were dropping. Your lines had to be crisp. Other cats don’t come from that school. It took me studying R ... More >>

Rush Hour 3: An American (And a Chinese) in Paris

The third time’s the guilty pleasure for Tucker and Chan’s buddy-cop franchise

Brett Ratner, The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3's director has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway

Rock Picks

For the week of May 3 – 10

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

Unfit for King's

Zaillian and Penn can’t put Penn Warren’s political parable back together again

Back to the Garden

The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon

C for Castration

Some Candy is harder to swallow than others

Gone With the Wind

Robert Towne’s romantic valentine to a bygone L.A.

Blind Spots, Indeed

Hitler, what a bastard . . . who knew?

Lars Attacks!

Von Trier in Trollywood

United They Sit

Why don’t Hollywood Democrats run for public office?

The Year in Film

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The best and latest from Spain

Poww!

Kenneth Tynan, demolition man

Vengeance Is Theirs

Wonder Boys and Girls

Our year at the movies

Belle de Jour

A conversation with Catherine Deneuve