Sean Connery

Red 2 Isn't Great, but Helen Mirren? Fabulous

Silent Hitchcock, Sean Connery and a Coachella Valley Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 14 The Coachella music festival may be over, but the Coachella Valley is keeping the party going with AMFM (Art Music Film and More) through June 16 in Cathedral City. More than 50 films will screen at the UltraStar Mary Pickford Stadium 14, ... More >>

James Bond Celebrates 50 Years With an Art Show in Little Tokyo

By Liz Ohanesian See also: *How a Star Wars Art Show Came to Be *Elvis Mitchell Picks the 10 Best James Bond Openings *Skyfall Review: James Bond Now Has a Superhero-Style Origin Story Plasticgod's small, block-y paintings stand up on a top shelf inside Little Tokyo gallery/boutique Q Pop. There's ... More >>

A LACMA Series Shows How Stanley Kubrick Influenced Science Fiction

Cloud Atlas: Inside the Wachowskis' World

Happy Internets Day! Famous Bushism Turns Eight

Eight years ago today, in his debate with John Kerry at Washington University, then-president George W. Bush uttered one of his most famous quotes, his "Ask not what your country can do for you," or more likely his "Ich bin ein Berliner." Pledging to maintain an all-volunteer army, he noted that he ... More >>

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

Elvis Mitchell Picks the 10 Best James Bond Openings

Starting June 9th, LACMA, in collaboration with Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of James Bond film franchise launches its new exhibit "...Is James Bond." The exhibit features the opening sequences for all twenty two Bond films. ... More >>

The Longest Day Starts at 9 a.m.

Eric Greenspan's New Restaurant-Bar-Hangout: The Roof on Wilshire

Photo by Kathy A. McDonaldChef Eric Greenspan at his new spot, The Roof on Wilshire​ The Roof on Wilshire is Eric Greenspan's new restaurant, sort of. It's a bar, but not really. It's both, but neither. "It's a hangout," Greenspan says, which really is the best way to describe it. Situated on ... More >>

Stage Raw: Othello

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (after the jump) NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Merry Wives of Windsor in Topanga Canyon and Griffith ParkBrian HelmOthello​On a care-free, car-free Carmageddon weekend, all of our critics got to their shows. Among the favorites, Lovell Estell III's warm apprai ... More >>

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

Steve Coogan Interview

Coogan plays himself for the third time in The Trip

Andrés De Bouchet: Q&A with Conan's Fat Jesus

​ You may know him as "Fat Jesus" from Conan, where he's a writer, or from the numerous other characters he's played on the show. He also ran the popular Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions And Also There Is a Game in New York before moving to L.A. With his booming voice, du Bouchet is m ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY! ANDRES DE BOUCHET

John Barry, Legendary Film Music Composer, Dead at 77

David BaileyJohn Barry (with then-wife Jane Birkin)​ Oscar-winning composer for James Bond films, John Barry died today. He was 77. As the man behind the sound of the swinging Sixties 007 era and beyond, he presented the big band extravaganzas for the Bond films. He won Oscars for his work on ... More >>

Sean Connery's lack of underpants & 20 other bizarre celeb facts from Rona Barrett

​ So, like Zardoz in reverse, fully-dressed Sean Connery spent the '70s going commando. Meanwhile, Sammy Davis, Jr., collected pornography, and Diane Keaton admitted an oral fixation! Click on through to our Style Council blog to learn all of this and more in this week's Studies in Crap post. ... More >>

Sammy Davis's porno, Linda Evans's androgyny & other jewels from Rona Barrett's cavalcade of celebrity non sequiturs

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Rona Barrett's Gossip Super Special Summer Annual Author: Rona Barrett and, presumably, her staff Date: Summer, ... More >>

Kid's Flick

Music Picks: Liz Pappademas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mad Professor, Bill Frisell

Also, Taylor Swift, Los Tres, Saint Motel, David Allan Coe and others

WHO NEEDS ELLIOT STABLER WHEN YOU'VE GOT ELIOT NESS?

And the Bear Rocks On

How Acclaimed Indie Director Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk

A tale of two movies

Festive! All! Celebrating Lobsters, Cheese, Downtown, Abbot Kinney and Valley Film

What to do in L.A., September 26-October 2

Decisions, Decisions

Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg

Harrison's daredevil archeologist returns, 19 years after Last Crusade

Barbarians at the Wall

Border crossings, gang colors ... are Scots the Mexicans of England?

Cool in the O.C.

Visions of a modernist past

Shoot 'Em Up: Owen, Clive Owen

He could have been a killer Bond

Putter Smith

Jazz wolverine

Buzz Cup

From espresso to mopeds, Choke adjusts the grind

Film Reviews

Backstage, Charlotte's Web, Eragon and more

Of James Bondage

In thrall to the man with the golden franchise

Stuck in a Winter Wonderland Traffic Jam

Blame Ovitz: When Art Started Imitating Hollywood

Clooney Vision

Good Night, and Good Luck, a searing requiem for the Fourth Estate, raises questions about truth and paranoia today

Private Parties

Swanky

Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

Éminence grise of Hollywood lawyers provokes pain in parting

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Hollywood Rap

Tired of movie roles going to rappers, the Fronterz crew made a movie about it

The Price of Freedom

Of Anita Busch and Winona Ryder

Fear Factor

The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Jousting Park

Into the quantum foam with Michael Crichton

The Misfits

American Westerns through Polish eyes

The Smooth and the Hairy

The British male onscreen

Taylor’s Steakhouse

De Palma

- all camera, no content

Fracture

The young person's guide to King Crimson