Shia LaBeouf

One Woman's Super Annoying, Super Lazy Quest to Meet Moby

Moby will hang out with anyone. It's practically written in the Constitution. Short only perhaps, of Bill Murray, everyone has their "hanging out with Moby" story: "Oh, my sister's college roommate's best friend's cousin made out with Moby last year" or "My neighbor sent him an email once and he jus ... More >>

Lawless Review: Shia LaBeouf Goes Bootlegging

Cannes Film Festival: Lawless, Laurence Anyways, Beyond the Hills

As a major festival like Cannes wears on, my notebook accumulates more scrawl than I can translate into full blog posts. So, behold! The first of likely several notebook dumps, with thoughts on John Hillcoat's bootleggers-with-hearts-of-gold vs. sexually-ambiguous-evil-fed and weak-ass local lawmen ... More >>

L.A. Zine Fest: Shia LaBeouf Is a Dick and Four Other Things We Learned

The world is becoming increasingly paperless, but don't tell that to the paper peddlers at last Sunday's inaugural L.A. Zine Fest, who proved that if you can doodle something clever, copy, staple and distribute -- voila -- you've got a zine. Nearly 90 DYI-ers from Gardena to Portland gathered to se ... More >>

6 HBO David Milch Faulkner Adaptations We'd Like to See (With Suggested Casting)

Famed television writer and former Yale English instructor David Milch announced this week that he's agreed produce some of William Faulkner's works for HBO. There's no word yet on what he'll do, but he's clearly got a lot to work with -- nineteen novels, a hundred plus short stories, and some scree ... More >>

Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?

Ominous glitz of a controversial celebrity photographer

Marilyn Manson's Born Villain Tracks: We Heard Them First

Lina Lecaro Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez at Studio Servitu​Have you seen Marilyn Manson's short film "Born Villain"? The new work (which some are calling a music video) advances his upcoming album of the same name. It also reaffirms his "shock rocker" status, though perhaps the most shock ... More >>

Marilyn Manson and Shia LeBeouf are Friends: Duo Sign Their Book Campaign at Space 15 Twenty

Paul T. BradleyWhere's Manson? ​ Some days you wake up and decide to put on your best slutty nurse uniform and hitchhike across the country. Perhaps you just got that timeless itch to pull an old Halloween costume out of the attic where it has been picking up dust, throw it on, and head for H ... More >>

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review: Michael Bay Destroys Chicago, Abe Lincoln and Our Brain Cells

Hero and his new hottie​ The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow moti ... More >>

Mad Bulls on Parade: Shia LaBeouf Punched at Sherman Oaks Bar

Not Shia LaBeouf but a piece of beef -- and the logo for Mad Bull's Tavern.​Either Shia LaBeouf got rowdy and earned himself a punch in the face or he was taunted then sucker-punched by thugs on his way out of a bar. In both versions, the Steven Spielberg-baiting, Carey Mulligan-dating "Transf ... More >>

Proposition 23: Green Money Pounds Big Oil Money In Blue California

By Hillel Aron Patrick Range McDonaldFuture green baron protests Prop. 23​Is the green energy lobby California's up-and-coming special interest group? Proposition 23 would kill Assembly Bill 32, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate-change bill that set strict standards for greenhouse gas ... More >>

We Are All Hoarders

Worst movie year ever? Or is Hollywood just feeding our addiction to garbage?

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

LA Ink's Corey Miller: "I'm a Grateful, Old-School Kind of Carny"

Powerflex 5 via MySpace​St. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>

Last Night: Alex Pardee Can't Hide from the Normals, Gallery 1988 Show a Success

DetailLast night at Gallery 1988 it was hard to tell which there were more of: empty PBR cans or people. The turnout for Cardboard City artist Alex Pardee's all-ages opening, "Hiding from the Normals," resembled that of a flashmob and the heat of bodies pressed up against art, up against more bodies ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Cage and Yak Ballz at El Rey, Also I Like to Rock, VIP Sneak Peek at Bigfoot Lodge West

This weekend was about one thing and one thing only: live music. While our sister papers Riverfront Times and Village Voice rocked out at Pitchfork Music Festival '09 and Siren Festival '09, respectively, the L.A. Weekly opted for more intimate club and theater fare. Dios, part of our current cover ... More >>

Cardboard City West: Cage and Yak Ballz Live at the El Rey

View more photos in the "Cardboard City West: Cage and Yak Ballz @ El Rey" slideshow. The demographic of fans lined up outside the El Rey for Definitive Jux rapper Cage's show on July 18 betrayed little of the artistry and showmanship that would eventually transpire inside. Comprised mostly of a h ... More >>

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Michael Bay Can’t Live Up to Michael Bay

Summer Movies: Villains and Heroes, Robots and Mad Men

Secret plot for Wall Street 2, huge tracking for Transformers 2

Cage Goes Hollywood: "I Never Knew You" Video Shot in L.A. Spotlighted on YouTube

In February L.A. Weekly was on set for the making of the music video for Definitive Jux rapper Chris "Cage" Palko's newest single, "I Never Knew You," shot in downtown Los Angeles and directed by actor Shia LaBeouf. Today you can find "I Never Knew You" as the top spotlighted video on YouTube Music ... More >>

Survivor, Hollywood-Style

MGM Tells Fiscal Truths, William Morris Lays Off, Chris Hemsworth Lands Thor

The Actor Becomes a Director: With Shia LaBeouf and Chris “Cage” Palko, Making the "I Never Knew You" Video

"This shit is better than riding unicorns"

Video Extras: Behind the Scenes with Cage and Shia LaBeouf for "I Never Knew You" Shoot

Todd WestphalCage and LaBeouf on the "I Never Knew You" setL.A. Weekly recently joined theCardboard City crew, Definitive Jux rapper Chris "Cage" Palko and actor Shia LaBeouf on the downtown L.A. set of the music video "I Never Knew You," the first single of Cage's upcoming album Depart From Me, and ... More >>

LA People 2009: Death Becomes Her — Gillian Shure

The queen of Hollywood splatterfests talks eviscerations and paper products

Movie Reviews: Choke, August Evening, Eagle Eye, Nights in Rodanthe

Also, Freebird, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela and more

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

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

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Paper Dolls

The high road and the low road

Transformers: Keep On Truckin'

Optimus is ready for prime time

Film Reviews: Surf's Up, Memories of Tomorrrow, Flanders

Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

Film Reviews

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

Rescue Me

Survival of the fittest in The Guardian and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler