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Q & A With David Miscimarra: The Hollywood Pies Owner Talks Deep Pizza What to Expect at Their New Dine-in Location, Now Open

If you drive by the new Hollywood Pies dine-in location, which officially soft opened this past weekend in West Los Angeles, you just might miss it. Taking up a humble 26-seat residence that fittingly used to house former pizza dive Pizza Mania, the location now sports a modest square sign of their ... More >>

Oz the Great and Powerful Is Neither of Those Things

Other Ozzes, Great and Terrible (But Mostly Terrible)

Other Ozzes, Great and Terrible (But Mostly Terrible)

See also: Oz the Great and Powerful Is Neither of Those Things Twenty minutes into the first full-length movie based on L. Frank Baum's most beloved novel, a duck pukes into the face of Larry Semon, the star and director. Semon's 1925 flop, titled The Wizard of Oz, opens and closes with a Geppetto- ... More >>

Death, Anime and More Death: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week's list is especially for horror lovers. Friday, Oct. 26 Feeling the autumn blues (by L.A. standards, anyway)? Soak up some inspiration from Seeds of Resiliency, an indie flick that spotlights an assorted mix of people, from the Guinness World Record holder for performing flips in his whe ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Barbers, Sharks and Treasure

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

Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night Made It Big. But That Wasn't the End of the Story

Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Simian Disobedience

The making of a monkey activist

Late Night Eats: Coney Dog's Loose Burger

G. SnyderLoose Burger​It's fair to say that the 2 a.m. crowd of Los Angeles has never truly been in want of suitable venues for late night noshing. Yet, even with this vast selection: the ham-fisted mutant burritos at Oki Dog, the artery-straining Tommy Burger spackled with brown roux, the end ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List: Bergman, Brits and Zombies

Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams in Discussion at LAFF 2010

© Universal PicturesMichael Cera wields the flaming sword of geek chivalry in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World​ At this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, there has been plenty for the genre crowd to get excited about, from last week's Christopher Nolan conversation to the upcoming ... More >>

Flashback 2008: New Health Video by Eric Wareheim and Crystal Castles to release vinyl-only single

Flashback 2008: New Health Video by Eric Wareheim and Crystal Castles to release vinyl-only single

Oscar Winner Brings Lost B Movie to Egyptian Theater

​ Bob Murawski just won an Oscar for editing Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a long-in-the-works indie project that came seemingly out of nowhere to earn the respect and accolades of the Academy. Now Murawski's own long-in-the-works indie project is about to be unveiled at the Egyptian Thea ... More >>

Sony Scrambling on Spidey

How a badly troubled script doomed Spider-Man 4

Best of L.A.: Nightlife

Dead, Deader, Deadest? — You Decide!

Apocalypse Maintenant: Last Week at Cannes

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Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick

Fangoria Weekend of Horror: Girls, Ghouls, Corpses, And A Very Small Amount of Blood

For more gory photos, view the slideshow here. And by "very small amount," I mean gobs, and gobs, and gobs. The first evening of the Fangoria Weekend of Horror Convention, there was an "extreme" fashion show featuring babes in skin-tight vinyl and latex from Fierce Couture and Junker Designs. It w ... More >>

GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

THE HORROR!

Bruce Campbell on Cult Stardom and Being His Own Director

Playing with himself

Movie Reviews: The Tale of Despereaux, The Yellow Handkerchief, Yes Man

Also, Tunnel Rats and Where God Left His Shoes

Sony Starts Another Spidey, N.Y. Times Unravels Convergence

Oh, what a tangled web

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

Spider-Man, in Black and White

When good superheroes turn reductive

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

Film Reviews

Incuding Salaam-e-Ishq, Epic Movie, and Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

It Ain’t Easy Bein' Blue

Bryan Singer offers a loving homage to the ghosts of Supermen past

The Summer: No Bummer

Thank God for big expensive favors

Eight-Legged Freaks

New York trembles as Spidey, Doc Ock play patty-cake

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

When Big Gets Bigger

X2 is everything it’s cracked up to be — and less!

Beatrice and Hubert

And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

Heavenly Pairings

Tykwer does Kieslowski

Letters

I, Bug

On Spider-Man and Woody Allen

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Too Simple

Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce

The Filmmakers

The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Turns 5

Our Other Top 10's

Manohla Dargis' Hit List

Blood Brothers

Sam Raimi’s American dream

Hypeless in Toronto