Steve Coogan

Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

Arthur Christmas Review

The Best and Worst of the Summer Movie Season

Considering the middlebrow question, and assessing the year in film thus far

Our Idiot Brother Review

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL

Barbara Gray

The Trip: Funniest Food Movie... Ever?

Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon in the Michael Winterbottom movie The Trip.​It's hard to know where reality ends and fiction begins with Michael Winterbottom, the prolific British filmmaker who veers between fiction and documentary, sometimes in the same movie. The Trip, his latest work to hit the ... More >>

5 Movies To Keep You From Destroying Your Relationship This Summer

Bonjour Tristesse​ It's almost July, which means its time to give up on any semblance of productivity at work and start plotting your escape. If you're half a couple, this list should guide you in your quest to make your relationship last through summer vacation. If you're single, or if, like ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List: Bergman, Brits and Zombies

Five Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Super 8 and Steve Coogan

Super 8​ This week in our print edition, LA Weekly critics review five movies coming out this weekend. Also check out Sam Wasson's confrontation of Terrence Malick, as he writes, "Perhaps it's time to reach for the light, prop up against the headboard and give this relationship some fresh cons ... More >>

Another Trip: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

The Trip Review

Michael Winterbottom revisits Fake Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan Interview

Coogan plays himself for the third time in The Trip

Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere

Sleepless in Toronto

Self-curation as self-protection at TIFF

Michael Winterbottom's The Trip: Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon Play With Their Food

For the past couple of years, a trend in British television has been the "sim com" series, or "simulated" situation comedy inspired by Curb Your Enthusiasm, which are various parts scripted and improvised, and partly fictional and based on real life. Director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party Pe ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Enemies of the People, Step-Up 3D, The Other Guys

Also The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, Patrik Age 1.5 and more

Armando Iannucci: Political Satirist

That's How the Scottish Comedy Director Stays in the Loop.

Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Movie Reviews: The Rocker, The House Bunny, Death Race

Also, America the Beautiful, The Longshots and more

Heavy Meddled: Gavin & Stacey

New British TV comedy is all about the friends and family who get in the way of true love

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

If only Ben Stiller and company were as hot and naughty as the P.C. protesters complain

Movie Reviews: Encounters at the End of the World, Finding Amanda, Wanted

Also, The Unknown Woman, Expired and more

When Hollywood Goes After White Whales

Thar she blows

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

Your Own Private Cable Channel

Essential DVDs for a personalized TV Land

AFI Fest, A to Y

Off With Her Manolo Blahniks!

Sofia Coppola’s fashionably slight Marie Antoinette

This Roadie's Life

Steve Coogan, comedy god, rocks on in Saxondale

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

Picks for Saturday, February 11

Pick for Friday, February 10

Picks for Sunday, February 12

Sunday, February 12

TiVo Top 10

The year in good TV

Starring Hostage No. 3

Ricky Gervais spotlights Hollywood’s little guys in HBO’s Extras

11 Great Small Performances

From the Minds of Babes

Oxygen imports comedian Julia Davis’ disturbingly funny Nighty Night

Verne-al Equinox

Jules around the world, on stage and screen

I’m Steve Coogan

. . . and Alan Partridge and Paul Calf and Tony Ferrino and Tony Wilson and 'Steve Coogan' and, oh yes, Phileas Fogg in the soon-to-open remake of Around the World in 80 Days

The Year in Film

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

The Ghosts of 'Madchester'

A Mythic Thing

Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?

A Fan's Notes