Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

The World’s End Review: A Pub Crawl to End All Pub Crawls

Film Reunites Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the team behind Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead

The World's End Stars Appear at 'The Official Edgar Wright Show' at Gallery 1988

It's just after 6 p.m. and the line for "The Official Edgar Wright Art Show" at Gallery 1988: West is halfway down a side street south of Melrose Avenue. This isn't a mad rush to secure tickets to purchase one of the limited edition prints. It's an orderly queue that has been building since the prev ... More >>

Stan Brakhage, Bruce Springsteen and Getting Your Film Into Festivals: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, July 19 We're loving Michael Cera right now. (Check out our review of his latest film, Crystal Fairy.) But if you want to take a short walk down memory lane, the New Beverly Cinema is screening Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at midnight, featuring Cer ... More >>

Michael Cera Enters His Experimental Phase

Arrested Development star chats about his upcoming film Crystal Fairy and his new YouTube channel

Beachwood Sparks Are One of L.A.'s Most Influential Bands You Don't Know

With folk music back in the mainstream consciousness via acts like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, the timing for Beachwood Sparks' reunion is right. "I think we were one of the bands that paved the way for that," founding member and bassist Brent Rademaker tells us. He's excited to talk about their new a ... More >>

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" History: "Call Me Maybe" is the first single from Jepsen's Curiosity EP. It was actually released last year. She made i ... More >>

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Sex, Death and Robots

Aubrey Plaza: Stare Appeal

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Nobody does "jaded twentysomething" better than Aubrey Plaza. The 27-year-old NYU- and UCB-trained actress has mastered the art of the dry wit and judging stare. And that's no ... More >>

Paul Robertson, Animator of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Video Game, Shows Pixel Art at GR2

Paul Robertson makes some of the coolest video game-inspired art you will ever see. In his prints -- several of which are on display right now in GR2's group show, "Diversions" -- the past clashes with the present in a brightly colored, pixelated fashion. Robertson artfully pieces together familiar ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012 Wrap-up

Indie filmmakers grapple with "reality"

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Biggest Disappointment Thus Far, and A Mid-Festival Notebook Drop

​ With Monday marking the midway point of my stay in Park City, here's a notebook dump on a few films I haven't had a chance to write about at length.

Homestuck Has Me Hooked

I think I'm hooked on Homestuck. Homestuck is a web comic, the fourth story in the MS Paint Adventures collection created by Andrew Hussie. It started in April of 2009 and is ongoing, with five acts completed and a sixth one underway. If you want proof of its popularity, go to a comic book or anim ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus Plans To Direct A Feature Film

[See also "Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Feeding People On Their Debut LP And A Particularly Memorable Encounter with the Devil" "Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus," "Top Five Reasons Why Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma is the Best L.A. Album of the Year," "Flying Lotus Ris ... More >>

Michael Cera No Longer in Indie Band Mister Heavenly. Turns Out He Never Was?

Evan CulbertsonMichael Cera​Story by Ian Joulain Back in December the music blogosphere got all hot and bothered. Turns out there was a new indie supergroup afoot, with Michael Cera on the bass! The band was tweely named Mister Heavenly, and it featured Islands' Nick Thorburn, Man Man's Hon ... More >>

Anamanaguchi's Peter Berkman Shares His Top 3 Influences: Tim and Eric, Japanese Music and Video Games

Ethan Saks​ Tonight, Anamanaguchi plays The Roxy with Peelander-Z and, tomorrow, the 8-bit punk band behind the music for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game will head down to Meltdown Comics, where they will appear inside the Nerdist Theater. Right before the band left for South by Southwe ... More >>

We Heart Japan Brings Together Anime Industry and Fans for Earthquake Relief at Meltdown Comics

See more photos in Dianne Garcia's gallery "Voice Actors, Artists and Anime Fans Say 'We Heart Japan' at Meltdown Comics." "I always wanted to be an actor and anime was the first job, career thing, that let me be an actor," said Stephanie Sheh at Thursday night's We Heart Japan fundraiser at Meltdo ... More >>

State of the Art House

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

MR. WRIGHT COMES TO TOWN

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Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it’s too late

We Cast the "L.A. Music Scene 2011" Biopic!: Which Top 10 Relevant Actors and Actresses Should Play These 10 Relevant L.A. Musicians?

10 Actors to Play Musicians in L.A.'s Music Scene

Michael Cera Joins Mister Heavenly's All-Star Indie Lineup for West Coast Tour

Michael Cera Joins Mister Heavenly's All-Star Indie Lineup for West Coast Tour

Tired of Real-World "Super Groups" That Are Less Than Super? Here's Our Fictional Character Super Group (Jordan Catalano on Rhythm Guitar, Y'all!)

Fictional TV and Movie Musician Supergroup Make Debut! (We Made It Up)

Telluride: Down From The Mountain

Studios trek to Colorado festival in search of art-film street cred

Inception's Kiss

And other memories of summer

Scott Pilgrim vs. The Venture Bros.

When we first saw this mash-up of Scott Pilgrim and The Venture Bros. floating around on Twitter, it made our day. The piece was created by Annie Wu, a Baltimore-based artist and recent graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, as part of a contest Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley held ... More >>

Precious Little Life

Scott Pilgrim and Michael Cera get soul

W00tstock 2.4 PWNS Thursday Evening Events at Comic-Con 2010

Nicole CamposLen Peralta's W00tstock 2.4 poster - drawn during the show, right on stage!​For what is typically considered one of the lighter, less big events-heavy days of Comic-Con, this year's must-see-and-do Thursday events in and around the convention center were outrageously plentiful. Yo ... More >>

The Five Best Street Marketing Campaigns at San Diego Comic-Con, 2010.

Bill Jensen​ Street marketing is tough. You have to grab a person's attention, get something in their head or their hands, and most importantly, get them to remember what you are pitching for more than three seconds. Tough. But try getting attention when you are standing next to a Stormtrooper ... More >>

Comic-Con 2010, Day 2: Street Fashion in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter

Really, we didn't intend to meet one Angeleno after the next while in San Diego for Comic-Con, but it happened. It seemed like our entire hometown had picked up and moved to the Gaslamp Quarter for five days. Check out a few fashionable locals we spotted in another city on Day 2 of Comic-Con. Allie ... More >>

Comic-Con 2010, Day 1: Street Fashion in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter

Convention fashion isn't all cosplay and oversized Batman t-shirt. Check out what people were wearing in and around the San Diego Convention Center on Day 1 of Comic-Con. Shannon Cottrell​ Cassie Carpenter, Los Angeles Outfit: Urban Outfitters blazer, high wasted sailor shorts, black fanny pac ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

Beck, Beachwood Sparks, Broken Social Scene Featured on 'Scott Pilgrim' Soundtrack

Beck, Beechwood Sparks, Broken Social Scene Featured on 'Scott Pilgrim vs. The World' Soundtrack

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 >>

Apocalypse "New": Free Experimental Musical featuring Ariana Delawari and Many Others, Tonight

​Here's an Earth Day thought: imagine that two narcissistic party girls--Nicole & Paris but with better vocabularies--survive the apocalypse and rebuild civilization according to their depraved self-serving desires. They destroy the world maybe twice in the process through song and dance. This ... More >>

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