Sandra Bullock

Gravity Is a Thrilling 3-D Breakthrough

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in Alfonso Cuaron's first film since Children of Men

Podcast: Why Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is a Near-Perfect Movie

Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is Lightning From the Heavens

Spoken Reasons, the YouTube Poet, Jumps to Hollywood in The Heat

There are plenty of YouTube "stars" on the Internet -- written with quotation marks because they rarely are recognized by age groups outside their target audience of teenagers. But this past week, Spoken Reasons, born John A. Baker Jr., went beyond his subscribers' computer screens and onto the silv ... More >>

The Heat Would Be More Likable If It Stopped Yelling Everything

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

From Child Soldiers to the History of the Razzie Awards: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, April 12 Starting at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Independent is Movies and Music: Pavilion and Sam Prekop. Coming from the South by Southwest film festival's Emerging Visions category is Pavilion, a part-documentary, part-autobiographical film from Tim ... More >>

Best New Baking Book: Bake It Like You Mean It

Really, April is the ideal time to Bake it Like You Mean it, as we could probably all use a little post-Spring Break malakofftorte à la raymo (chocolate ladyfinger cake, here filled with Kahlua cream) kitchen therapy. This is the third in a recent series of pastry books from Gesine Bullock-Prado ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

Weekend Baking: The Pie it Forward Cookbook A Chocolate Stout Pie Recipe

Those summer berry and fall holiday pies may get all of the seasonal baking attention, but spring really is the ideal time to Pie it Forward, isn't it? There are those rainy weekends best left to indoor dough rolling, the partly cloudy ones that aren't quite ready for berry picking outings, and thos ... More >>

Sexy Women Still Party at Age 40, Says Alarming Report Focusing on Ladies of California

Sandra can still party, apparently.​From the Department of No Frigging Duh know comes this fine scoop from USA Today ... today. Forty-year-old women, it turns out, like to party too. The in-depth story looks mostly at the fine, middle-aged ladies off California. Now, the underlying assumptio ... More >>

Jeweler at Store Favored by Jessica Simpson, Sandra Bullock, Robbed of $1.5 Million in Jewels During Lunch Stop in Santa Monica

susanfosterjewelry.com​Update: Cops say the victim didn't work for Susan Foster Exquisite Fine Jewelry but might have made a sales call there before the robbery (more details after the jump). Suspect descriptions also after the jump. A man who works at a might have paid a sales visit to a Bre ... More >>

Many 'Monogamous' Los Angeles Couples Have Outside Lovers, Lie

Agelenos like their relationships, and their outside lovers.​Being exclusive, it seems, is in the eye of the player beholder, especially here in L.A. A recent study of young couples in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City found that 40 percent of the pairs surveyed included one partner who thought i ... More >>

Craigslist TV Series On YouTube Has Gone Live

​That online Craigslist-based reality show we told you about recently went live on YouTube. The 14-episode first season follows the lives of five Angelenos who used the bulletin-board site to find fashion models, soul mates and more. The star so far seems to be Michael Mullen, a 28-year-old f ... More >>

Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

LUENELL NEEDS KATHY GRIFFIN TICKETS

Frog of the South

Disney’s song and dance about a black princess croaks

The Blind Side's Blind Spot

What would black people do without bighearted white people?

Movie Reviews: All About Steve, Loren Cass, Ink, Walt & El Grupo

Also, Sandstorm, No Impact Man, Gamer and more

Movie Reviews: Amreeka, Gamer, The Headless Woman

Also, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha and more

LA People 2009: Aerial Angel — Brian Rosenberg

World Market

Something for everyone at City of Lights, City of Angels festival

Film Reviews: Premonition, I Think I Love My Wife and Others

Also Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and Tortilla Heaven

Tone Deaf

Songbirds Grant and Barrymore make uninspired Music and Lyrics

Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

Rehearsing the Apocalypse

World Trade Center buries Oliver Stone

Pen Pals

Bullock and Reeves make love in the twilight zone

Worst in Show

The Chic and the "Eek!"

Everybody's got an opinion when it comes to Oscar fashion, and since I'm in the Style Council, I can pretend mine matters. Coolio! I watched it all on the tube last night (no red carpet camping and definitely no traffic-jammed, hoity toity after-parties for me, at least not this year) with the rest ... More >>

T-Bone’s Dream

Katrina victim washes ashore in Echo Park, goes to NASCAR race, kisses Sandra Bullock

Space Race

The territorial imperative in Crash and Another Road Home

I’m Black and Paranoid

An L.A. native’s view of Crash

God Free

Good Chemistry, Stale Formula

Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock in Two Weeks Notice

Queen of Hearts, Queen of Spades

Sorvino in Triumph of Love, Bullock in Murder by Numbers

Ancient Grease

Edited by Kateri Butler

Auto Immune

How I got off my car and stayed off

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Go Date Yourself

Landmarks

Daring To Be Good

Screenwriter Susannah Grant

Pigs

Hollywood swine in Action, the real thing in Animal Farm

Road Movies

Susan Sarandon in Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions, Kirsten Dunst in The Devil's Arithmetic, plus Strange World

The Femme Mystique

French actresses at the American Cinematheque

The Information Hersheyhighway

Top Ten Choices for a Live-Action Lara Croft

Go Ahead, Make My Polygonal Day

Game character Lara Croft busts out to pop stardom.

Beer, BBQ and Bullock

at the South by Southwest Film Festival