Steve Carell

Eat Drink Love, Episode 6: Lies Hits Juice Cleanses

Editor's note: As many of you know, Bravo debuted a new show about the L.A. food scene recently. Since some of us spend our Sundays Thursdays watching sports instead of reality television (yes, even if it's about food; especially if it's about food), we though we'd ask a writer who writes more about ... More >>

Brian de Palma Explains How His Erotic Remake Passion Is Better Than the Original

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: What Happened?

The Way, Way Back Directors on Thinking You're a 6 but Hearing You're a 3

The Way, Way Back Review: It's Like Watching Pinocchio in Reverse

L.A. Film Festival 2013: The Best Films to See

Kirk Douglas Honors Burt Lancaster, and a New Media Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 7 The seventh annual Greek Film Festival at the Writers Guild Theater runs through June 9. Friday's lineup includes the U.S. premiere of They Glow in the Dark at 3 p.m. This documentary finds two gay ex-lovers reconnecting after 20 years to m ... More >>

Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

Jay Mohr

Stacie Passon's Superb Concussion Is Why We Have a Sundance in the First place

Sometimes, one film in a festival lineup can help to reveal another in sharper relief. To wit, one of the loveliest entries in Sundance 2013's U.S. Dramatic Competition, James Ponsoldt's deeply felt coming-of-age drama The Spectacular Now, looked even better after the premiere of The Way Way Back, a ... More >>

10 Best Judd Apatow-Inspired Artworks at Gallery 1988

See also: *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Pee Wee Herman Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Real-life freaks and geeks gathered at Gallery 1988 Tuesday night for the opening of the A Tribute to Judd Apatow ... More >>

Rashida Jones on Celeste and Jesse Forever, Her Debut as a Screenwriter

In terms of looks, charisma, and talent, Rashida Jones should have been a star a long time ago. But in terms of what she's ready to offer Hollywood (and what Hollywood finally might be ready to let her accomplish), her belated ascent seems well-timed. Bittersweet breakup comedy Celeste and Jesse For ... More >>

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Review

Stephen Merchant, The Office Co-Creator, Thinks He's Too Tall to Get Laid

Photo by Carolyn Djanogly​ At the start of his first North American stand-up tour he's entitled Hello Ladies, Stephen Merchant -- the taller, less famous writing/directing partner of Ricky Gervais and co-creator of The Office -- shows a photo from The Guardian newspaper of him standing on stag ... More >>

Crazy, Stupid, Love Review

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 >>

R.I.P. Leonard Stern, Inventor of Mad Libs

Leonard Stern, turning everyman to funnyman since 1958​We don't normally obit every Hollywood vet who dies a peaceful death after a golden old age in the Hills, but Leonard Stern, who Deadline Hollywood reports died Tuesday at 88 years old, transcended the film/TV industry to bestow a gift upo ... More >>

Ten Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Thor, The Beaver, Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom

Thor​ Ten movies coming out this weekend, with reviews from our print edition: 10. The summer tentpoles are coming, and this week we have Kenneth Branagh's Thor, which Eric Hynes says is "an astonishingly awkward marriage of ancient Norse mythology and 21st-century nonsense and "works too har ... More >>

The Beaver Review

Mel Gibson, playing mad and loving it

Squid Ink's Most Beloved Discontinued Products: Well, A Few of Them

DSL in Jaz/flickrWe hardly knew you.​ Our favorite convenience foods are like friendly co-workers holed up in the next cubicle over. We meet them, like them, grow accustomed to their presence in our lives, and then, just as soon as we realize we can't quite imagine life without them, they di ... More >>

Cedar Rapids

MEGAMIND 3-D

Paul Rudd: He's an Actor ... Right?

The ... actor ... on playing himself, Party Down and Dinner for Schmucks

Movie reviews: Get Low, Life During Wartime

Also: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno and more

Movie Revews: Predators, [REC] 2, Great Directors, Cropsey

Also, Despicable Me, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Kids Are All Right

I Love You Phillip Morris: Out of the Closet, but Not out in Theaters

Why the funniest, most subversive film of the year — starring Jim Carrey as a gay felon — isn't coming to your local multiplex anytime soon

The Populist: Date Night's Shawn Levy

From Yale drama to his latest film, there's more to this multiplex master than meets the eye

Movie Reviews: Women Without Men, The Square, After.Life, Phyllis and Harold

Also, La Mission, Godspeed, Mid-August Lunch and more

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

Film Reviews: Get Smart, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

Also, Never Forever, Viva, Brick Lane

Movie Reviews: Beaufort, Horton Hears a Who!, The Unforeseen

Also Doomsday and All In This Tea

ELLEN'S GAY

Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>

Here Baby Here

Playing down on her luck, Amy Ryan’s star rises

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

Dan in Reel Life

Cobbled together from better movies, Steve Carell’s latest is strike two

Mothers, Gangsters and the Usual Boobs at the Emmys

Shout outs and murmurs

Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

Also I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Ira & Abby, December Boys and more

Geek Love

Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking

Evan Almighty: Zoo Story

Steve Carell squawks with the animals

Evan's in Need of a Miracle

Is the big-budget sequel going to hell?

Knocked Up's Daddy Issues

Putting the fear of life into a slacker

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

Your Own Private Cable Channel

Essential DVDs for a personalized TV Land

Music Picks

For the week of August 17 - 24

Hooverville

Little Miss Sunshine lights into the American family

Club Emmy

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping today’s kiddie-movie landscape

No Stunt Hair Necessary

For Steve Carell, the road to movie stardom was lined with dehydration and body waxing

Sex and the Pocket Protector

The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes deep

Saving the Laugh Track

Is the sitcom drought coming to an end? The new contenders: Jake in Progress, The Office and Life on a Stick

11 Great Small Performances