The Godfather

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

TCM Classic Film Festival: Watching Hollywood's Greatest Films on Its Most Annoying Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard during the TCM Classic Film Festival is mostly business as usual: Captain Jack Sparrow and Marilyn Monroe walk up and down the street to the delight of camera-wielding tourists, Jimmy Kimmel Live staffers give away free tickets, aspiring rappers hand out CDs before not-so-subtly ... More >>

Oscars 2013: Blogging From the Press Room

See also: *More L.A. Weekly film coverage *How a $45,000 Oscar Gift Bag Is Born Our report from the press room is adapted from tweets at @laweeklyarts and @zpincusroth -- follow us there too. [Updated: 10:25 pm] 10:11 pm Anne Hathaway has press room's most sincere line of the night, on why she s ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See Also: Henry Rollins: When It Comes to Gun Control, the Bad Guys Have Won the Day A few nig ... More >>

From Punks to Mobsters: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special-event movies to see: Thursday, January 3 A Vincente Minnelli double feature courtesy of the Aero: The Band Wagon and Meet Me in ... More >>

3D Film Festival Seeks to Answer: Is 3D a Fad or the Future?

While you were clicking hours away on your View-Master as a child, Christopher Crescitelli was heralding the future. "I was one of those weird kids, who, in the fifth grade, started making 3D imagery with my crayons and colored markers," he says. "People nicknamed me the 3D kid." Unfortunately, ... More >>

Henry Hill Dies in Los Angeles at Age 69: Goodfellas Was His Life's Story

Henry Hill, the onetime mobster whose life inspired the film Goodfellas, died in Los Angeles at the age of 69 yesterday. A website dedicated to Hill confirmed his passing, which was first reported by TMZ. Hill's fairy tale gangster life and his part in a record-breaking "Lufthansa heist" of 1978 w ... More >>

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta

David Faustino parlayed his Married ... With Children fame into a hugely influential hip-hop party. Now he wants back into the scene.

Living the Vida La De Da

Five Cheesiest Moments in Baseball Movie History

SonyDespite the brilliance of Moneyball as a baseball movie -- a really cheesy moment exists in the film.​ Looking to rally moviegoers this weekend is the feature adaptation of Michael Lewis 2003 tome Moneyball, which dramatizes the resurrection of the 2002 underdogs, the Oakland A's, under th ... More >>

Pizza & the Politics: Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain Announces Presidential Bid

You may love pizza, but do you love it enough to have it influence your vote? Considering the current field of Republican presidential candidates, pizza may be as good a reason to vote as anything else. Over the weekend, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain formally announced his candidacy for ... More >>

Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

LACMA's Road Movies Series

WHAT COULD BE MORE FESTIVE THAN A DOUBLE FEATURE ABOUT FAMILY VALUES?

Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

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

Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World

Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint

Meet Your New Wine Critic: Robert De Niro

​And the Oscar for Best Wine goes to....As Academy Awards' speeches go, the one given by Robert De Niro on Saturday night stands head and shoulders above the rest. Oenaphiles, sommeliers and vignerons in particular should take note: there's a new wine critic in town. "You talkin' to me?" Presenti ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Lemon Durang Pie, Hyperbole: Origins, Lucia Mad

Also, Into the Woods, Barrymore and more

Day Tripping on the Tom Waits Bus Tour of Los Angeles

​"Most of the stops on this tour are in piss-stained alleys," chuckled David Smay, as a motley--if well-dressed--crew of 47 settled themselves on his bus, which this past Saturday was parked outside King Eddy's--the only dive bar left "on the nickel" in downtown's increasingly gentrified Skid ... More >>

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

Heavenly Creatures

Disney Goes to the Dark Side

The Battle for the Mouse’s heart and soul reaches epic proportions