Steve Buscemi

Top Five Most Exciting Lebowski Fest Moments

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. I saw The Big Lebowski when it came out in early 1998 and left feeling fairly indifferent. I didn't dislike it, but I d ... More >>

The Adventures of Pete and Pete Reunion at Cinefamily: Mike Maronna, Danny Tamberelli & Artie...the Strongest Man...in the World

Describing Pete and Pete to non-fans and newcomers is like describing an acid trip in Pleasantville to your grandma without making drug reference, "It's like, y'know...surreal but nostalgic...but like still kinda wholesome...but warped...only tastefully so." Ok fine, Pete and Pete is The Wonder Year ... More >>

Pete Smalls Is Dead Review

Peter Dinklage's Big Break

Five Noir Films To Remind You Why You Heart L.A.

"You seen my cat?"​ Yes, we love this place, but that doesn't mean it doesn't get exhausting explaining to everybody else what it is, exactly, that we're doing here. Particularly in summer when the fake tans, overpriced cocktails and newsboy caps worn by people who don't deliver newspapers for ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Day: 10 Standard Types of Reactions From Award Show Nominees

Tina Fey got nominated this year! (Or at least we assume -- we haven't checked yet)​ Guess what? HBO dominated the Emmys again. Another way the Emmys are predictable: the nominees' reactions. Or at least how they convey their reactions. We don't really know people's real reactions -- we know ... More >>

Open Mike Eagle Unapologetically Talks About "Art Rap"

[Make sure to read Jeff Weiss' piece on Open Mike Eagle, from the LA Weekly print edition.] Open Mike Eagle - I Rock from Mush Records on Vimeo. In the first ten minutes of his acidic and excellent debut, "Unapologetic Art Rap," Open Mike Eagle samples Pavement and sings a portion of TV on the Ra ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Restrepo, Eyes Wide Open, The Sun Behind the Clouds

Also, Knight and Day, Raavan, The Killer Inside Me and more

Movie Reviews: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Handsome Harry

Also, Letters to God, The Joneses, Who Do You Love and more

Star-studded Method Film Fest's Hits and Misses

​ Celebrating its twelfth anniversary this year, Method Fest - whose raison d'etre is to showcase films driven by performances and strong stories, not special effects or global market potential - has slowly evolved into a very big deal. This year's films star such respected names as Anthony H ... More >>

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

Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

Movie Reviews: Crazy On the Outside, Daybreakers, Leap Year

Also, Bitch Slap, Youth in Revolt and more

Frank Fairfield: The Man Who Wasn't There

His country blues draws more from rural Appalachia than urban California

Mr. Blood Red: Ella Taylor's 1992 Quentin Tarantino Profile

Archive Weekly story catches Reservoir Dogs director a week before its L.A. premiere

Mickey Rourke Returns as The Wrestler

Year of the ram

Movie Reviews: Save Me, Take Out, Hounddog

Also, The Pool, Ghost Town, Igor and more

The Wrestler wins Venice. Next stop: Toronto

Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler won't screen publicly here in Toronto until Sunday evening, and won't be shown to the press until Monday afternoon. (In its latest concession to Hollywood, the festival has this year decided to hold press screenings for many high-profile movies only after those films' ... More >>

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

Lacking Grace

John Cusack enters the Iraq weepstakes

Film Reviews: Delirious, Death at a Funeral, 7 Dias

Live in L.A.: Entrance at Safari Sam's, 8/3

Entrance are not who you think they are. They are not a quiet, mellow trio nipping at the heels of the psych-folk pack mule, despite their long hair, skinny limbs, pale skin and bare feet (which make them look like they're on their way to see the California country line-up at Topanga Days). As the ... More >>

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry: Friends With Benefits

Chuck and Larry pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists

Film Reviews: Interview, My Best Friend and More

Also Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox, Tekkonkinkreet

Steve Buscemi: Second Glances

Looking back at the landmark gay film that launched Buscemi's career

Film Reviews

Backstage, Charlotte's Web, Eragon and more

Film Reviews

Reviews of Monster House, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and more

Art School Rejects

Breakfast with Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes

Film Reviews

For the week of March 31-April 6

From the Depths of Hell to Hollywood

A new documentary charts the remarkable rise of actor Danny Trejo

Sundance Is for Independents

Authentic and otherwise

Rare Vintage

Sideways is good to the last gulp

Married to the Mob

The Sopranos, season five

The Revelators

Martin Scorsese’s blue Christmas

The Tell-Tale Tone

Talking with Lou Reed about sound, spirit and Poe

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

You'll Never Eat Ass in This Town Again

The Face of Pirate Cat Radio

Screwing the Airwaves Since 1997

'Everyone’s Too Stupid!'

Ghost World, plus America’s Sweethearts

Clowes’ World

The story of a comic artist

The Director's the Thing

Falling Rock

Michael Bay, terminator

The Brothers Freak

In which the Coens sing the praises of dope, bowling, loyalty and sloth