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L.A. Library's New Free, Netflix-Like Services, Explained

Broke L.A. twenty-somethings, rejoice! No longer must you feel a tinge of guilt for praising Emersonian self-reliance in your sock puppet performance art while secretly mooching off of your parents' Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant accounts. The L.A. Public Library has arrived in the 21st cen ... More >>

Prince Avalanche Director David Gordon Green Finds Inspiration in Texas' Worst Fire Ever

A Sundance Festival in L.A.

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

Seeing Stars: A Five-Star Rating System for L.A. Restaurants

The L.A. Weekly will assign star ratings to restaurant reviews in 2013

LA Weekly Will Use a Star Rating System for Restaurant Reviews Going Forward

Beginning next week, LA Weekly's main restaurant reviews will come with a star rating. This week, in place of a restaurant review, I wrote an essay explaining the new system, as well as discussing how the decision to implement stars came about and why we think this is a good idea. An excerpt:

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

The Hunger Games Rages Against Our Stupid Culture, But It's Part of the Problem

Yes, 87 percent of critics Rottentomatoes.com like it, and yes, it broke a record with $19.7 million from midnight showings across the country last night. But according to our review of The Hunger Games, written by Melissa Anderson, while the film rages against our culture (especially its fixation ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

The Best and Worst of the Summer Movie Season

Considering the middlebrow question, and assessing the year in film thus far

State of the Art House

In the capital of cinema, specialty films are losing ground (but there are glimmers of hope)

James Franco, Anne Hathaway To Host Oscars?

Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

'Jackass 3D' Nets $50 Million In Opening Weekend, Splattering Runner-Up 'Red' In Brown Stuff And Setting Record For Highest-Grossing October Release

Paramount Pictures​America just couldn't wait to see Steve-O's balls in the third dimension. "Jackass 3D," third filmic spinoff of MTV's infamous gross-out series, opened this weekend to disgusting amounts of success. Moviegoers dropped an estimated $50 million on the film between Friday and ... More >>

The Populist: Date Night's Shawn Levy

From Yale drama to his latest film, there's more to this multiplex master than meets the eye

Kevin Smith's Twitter Campaign Against Critics

​After almost exactly a month in theaters, Kevin Smith's Cop Out has made $42.7 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing film directed by the sometime-indie icon, by a substantial margin. Meanwhile, the Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan cop-com was a total strikeout with critics, nett ... More >>

Trick or Treat

This week had surprises for Hollywood

Hollywood Is All About Karma

Movie studio moguls (Cook, Ross, Shmuger, Linde, Fogelson, Langley) came and went this week

A Tale of Two Movies

When things go miraculously right — or horribly wrong

Funny People, Funny Business

What's no laughing matter in movies and media this week

Shades of Gray: Two Lovers Director on Ford and Fellini, Phoenix and Paltrow

... and that "Gallic fetish" thing

Critic-o-Meter: Grading, or Degrading?

Theater blog brings all the reviews together, for better or worse

Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>

10 Uniquely Noteworthy Posthumous Performances on Film

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

LAFF 2008: Oh Heavenly Prince

The day before yesterday, we spoke of misleading titles, like how there are no flying monsters in WINGED CREATURES. But it works both ways – sometimes movies have titles that lead you to believe they’ll be immeasurably lame, and they’re not. PRINCE OF BROADWAY, for example, sounds like it’s ... More >>

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