The Dark Knight Rises

Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

Warning: This discussion is thick with spoilers

5 Great Foods at 'Mercado Olympic' Outdoor Market

If you've ever spent a weekend on Olympic Boulevard, cruising through downtown as it crosses Central Avenue, you'll probably notice some people. Well, hundreds of people, really. You can't miss them: They cross the street whenever they feel like it, double-park so they can load up their cars with al ... More >>

I Go Out With the Group Substance Abuse and a Rapper Who Tries To Convince Me to Ho

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with MCs Subz and Eso Tre from Substance Abuse, who are known for their well-regarded 2006 album Overproof and their just-rele ... More >>

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...

Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>

Why You Have to See The Master in 70mm

Paul Thomas Anderson excels at coaxing brilliant work out of his collaborators -- which, on his last two features, specifically means not only his leading men but also composer Jonny Greenwood and cinematographers Robert Elswit and Mihai Malaimare Jr. -- and directing them so expertly that he distra ... More >>

The Ethics of Superhero Gun Use: Why Indy Does It in Raiders of the Lost Ark But Batman Doesn't in Dark Knight Rises

For all his doom and gloom, Batman isn't exactly an antihero--a point that's worth bringing up right now because another, less tortured hero can currently be found on IMAX screens across Los Angeles: ... More >>

Clark Tabor at L.A. Dark Knight Screening: 'I Should Go Off Like in Colorado' -- Cops

Following Friday's massacre at a Dark Knight screening in Aurora, Colorado, movie-goers have been a bit on-edge. And who could blame them? Theaters in the summer of 2012 have become the new airplanes. Even the LAPD stated it was going undercover at local movie houses -- like air marshals of the aisl ... More >>

Dark Knight Candlelight Vigil at Grauman's Chinese Theater Tonight For Aurora Victims

A candlelight vigil for victims of the massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado will be held tonight at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The event happens at 8:30 p.m., organizers state. At 9 p.m. lights on the theater's facade and at its forecourt will ... More >>

James Holmes Smoked Marijuana, Took Vicodin -- Reports

Suspected Aurora massacre shooter James Holmes took Vicodin before the attack and was also a marijuana smoker, according to reports posted over the weekend. The 24-year-old from San Diego who was in L.A. as a summer camp counselor in 2008 took 100 mg of Vicodin about 2-and-a-half hours before Frida ... More >>

Dark Knight XXX Porn Sales Soar in Wake of Aurora Tragedy

Another news item from the Department of Too Soon: L.A. based porn studio Vivid announced that its The Dark Knight XXX: A Porn Parody DVD was blowing of the shelves after it began arriving at adult stores across America today. The film has been available online, and Vivid notes that it has receive ... More >>

James Holmes, Dark Knight Massacre Suspect, From Southern California, Attended UC Riverside

Updated at the bottom: L.A. mayor wants to ban assault weapons nationwide. And: New York's top cop says the suspect fashioned himself as "The Joker." First posted at 1:10 p.m. See also: *Dark Knight Massacre: LAPD Sends Undercover Cops Into Area Theaters. The 24-year-old suspected of killing 12 an ... More >>

Dark Knight Massacre: LAPD Sends Undercover Cops Into Area Theaters

The LAPD today said it was sending "undercover" officers to area theaters as a precaution in the wake of the massacre of film-goers at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. "In regard to what happened in Colorado, there will be spot checks," an officer told the Weekly. In a sta ... More >>

Kim Kardashian 'Aurora Dress' Promoted After Dark Knight Massacre: Boutique Apologizes

See also: *Dark Knight Massacre: LAPD Sends Undercover Cops Into Area Theaters. From the Department of Too Soon comes news of this unfortunate Twitter FAIL: An online fashion retailer called Celeb Boutique was feeling the heat today after it capitalized on the trending popularity of the term Auror ... More >>

Dark Knight Rises Review

Self-important and overstuffed, The Dark Knight Rises feels like Batman forever

IMAX or Lie-MAX? Where to Actually See The Dark Knight Rises on the Biggest Screen Possible

The good news is that we have two legit IMAX locations to choose from (three if you count the California Science Center, which specializes in nature documentaries and the like): Universal CityWalk and Chicano Batman, Caped Crusader

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] With the July 20 release of The Dark Knight Rises, the iconic Batman franchise returns for its seventh summer with the usual panoply of "pows," "bangs" and Chri ... More >>

Sam Rubin's Hacked 'Fake Ass Nigga' Tweet Gets Best of Gawker

KTLA News' entertainment-beat veteran Sam Rubin was briefly under the gun over the weekend after he became the subject of a Gawker report about a tweet made from his account: It called rapper Yung Berg a "fake ass nigga." He soon tweeted that his account had been hacked and that he wouldn't use su ... More >>

Spike Lee on Shooting in His Favorite Borough for Red Hook Summer

Lee talks making the very indie Red Hook Summer

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

7 Bizarro Life Lessons from Kevin Smith's New Book Tough Sh*t

Southwest Airlines may agree with the "fat" part of Kevin Smith's new book Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good from Gotham Books, but Silent Bob is far from lazy. He's an author, comic book store owner, professional stage farceur and podcaster who runs a network of podcasts fo ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Inception Star's Crowdsourced hitRECord Website Becomes a Book

It takes six seconds to read a short tragedy about an upbeat orange and a suicidal egg in The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume I. One of 33 bite-sized narratives culled from nearly 8,600 submissions to actor-slash-crowd-sourcing impresario Joseph Gordon-Levitt's hitRECord website, the tale is told ... More >>

The Dark Knight Rises: The Trailer

​ The Dark Knight Rises won't hit theaters until July 2012, but this teaser surfaced on Facebook yesterday, sending the Internet into a tizzy. We have to admit, we're a little confused about why.