Sharon Stone

Gone With the Wind and a Cambodian Film Festival: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Sept. 13 The New Beverly Cinema is showing two of Sarah Polley's films back-to-back, beginning at 7:30 p.m. In the documentary Stories We Tell, Polley navigates her own family's secrets. Then, in Polley's first feature as director, Away from Her, we follow the marriage of a retired couple ( ... More >>

Lovelace, Starring Amanda Seyfried as the Famed Porn Star, Is a One-Person Rashomon

Mainstream Movie Porn Sucks: How Real Sex in Real Movies Is a Real Distraction

The long, hard truth

Everything You Need to Know About What Happened at Sundance

Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body -- was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let's say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less heady consideration o ... More >>

Total Recall: A Look Back at the Older, Better One

Just because it made loads of money, stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, and features a three-titted mutant doesn't mean Total Recall isn't ruggedly individualistic art. Just look at its outsider pedigree: Total Recall was loosely based on a 1966 short story from the flushed mind of Philip K. Dick, produce ... More >>

Sharon Stone's Ex-Nanny, Erlinda Elemen, Says Actress Insulted Her for Being Filipina

L.A.'s huge Filipino community might have a new enemy in Hollywood: Basic Instinct actress Sharon Stone, who's no stranger to litigation from the help, is being sued by Erlinda T. Elemen, her three children's former live-in nanny, for allegedly criticizing her Filipino heritage. Also, for allegedly ... More >>

Corkcicle: Stab Your Wine (Or Your Friends)

The Corkcicle.​Is it a prop from the latest Terminator reboot or the famous ice pick Sharon Stone used in Basic Instinct. Neither. It's the Corkcicle, a faux ice pick that you chill in your freezer then pop into your wine bottle.

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

Daphna Edwards Ziman, NY Times Bestselling Author of The Gray Zone: Our 'Ask the Author' Interview

Ziman's first novel, The Gray Zone, published by Greenleaf Book Group Press in June 2011.​ Local author Daphna Edwards Ziman garnered a lot of attention for socially aware novel The Gray Zone, which chronicled the fate of kids put in the American foster care system via a fast-paced thriller o ... More >>

Sharon Stone Lawsuit: Woman Says She Can't Serve on Jury Because She Dislikes Defendant as an Actress

Sharon Stone: Inspiring bias in the jury since 1992.​We've heard (read: made) a lot of bad excuses for getting out of jury duty -- possibly even involving nonexistent cancer children -- but this is a brat-tastic new L.A. low. According to City News Service, a middle-aged Hollywood snob in the ... More >>

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

Talking the Pith Out of Kathy Griffin

Keeping Up With the Times

Post-Coachella Recovery at Shadowscene, Linda Perry's Evening With Women

The Ding Bat Show (Starring Clown College Alumni)

Fool's Gold: McConaughey and Hudson Plumb the Depths

Sunken treasure

Whoa, Nellie! You're the Best!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Loud & Proud

And ghouls on film

Master Mizoguchi

Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant

Tia Maria Torres

Underdogs

Unromancing the Stone

In 2006, the Basic Instinct beauty showed she wasn’t just another pretty face

Jan. 26, 2007

The End of Murder by David Zahniser

Film Reviews

Including Alpha Dog, God Grew Tired of Us and Black Gold

A Death in Moscow

Film Reviews

Including this weeks picks, Iraq in Fragments and The History Boys

Along Came Scary

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Remember to Smile

London Calling

Film Reviews

For the week of March 31-April 6

De Tocqueville, Part Deux

Bernard-Henri Lévy on American sex, American religion and American Vertigo

The Thrill Is Gone

Jim Jarmusch and Wong Kar-wai look for love in all the wrong places

Shopping the ’Bank

Bring your own parking meter

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

Really Big Packages

Forget what EW says, it’s the moguls’ perks that are out of control, not the stars’

Rocket From Russia

Time-traveling with an American in Moscow

Getting their hey ya yas on

Crashing Comdex

Makeover 1

Photos by Julie Pavlowski

Momma Does Mackie

Mr. California

Get To Know Your Rabbit

Hanson's 8 Mile, De Palma's Femme Fatale

She Shtups To Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

SLUSH

Edited by Kateri Butler and Libby Molyneaux

The Femme Mystique

French actresses at the American Cinematheque

Colonial Life

The brave bugs of Antz and the rabid racists of The Life of Jesus

Passion Play

Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, 25 years later

Burn This