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Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance

You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Coogler opens the fi ... More >>

The Lion King's "Hakuna Matata": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: The Lion King's "Hakuna Matata" History: "Hakuna Matata" is from Disney's The Lion King. The first time I saw The Lion King was as a preteen with a childh ... More >>

The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magon, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Hosted by Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez, Loyola Marymount University, KCET Community Television and VARIEDADES present The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón at the Ford Amphitheatre September 28, 2012, 8 p.m., 2580 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. The show features Quetzal, augmented by members of ... More >>

Wreck-It Ralph Influenced Not Only by Video Games But Harajuku, Gaudi and the San Diego Chargers

Wreck-It Ralph won't be in theaters until November, but the buzz for Disney's forthcoming animated film has already begun. Directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Futurama), the movie stars John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch as video game characters whose lives are more comp ... More >>

LACMA Presents Abstract Animated Films by Oskar Fischinger and Others

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/14-11/18

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "At the end of 2011, the year that the gastropub finally wrestled formal dining into a bathtub to drown, we pretty much know what a good, new restaurant is going to look like." Cooks County: A Perf ... More >>

Former UCLA Student Proposes to Girlfriend via Flash Mob: 'You're So Cheesy' (VIDEO)

Flash Mob America has news for you: When it comes to marriage proposals, flash mobs are the new baseball-game billboards! Or sky messages! Or tombstones, as the case may be! Thus completing the transition of the flash-mob concept from rebel's rally to gushy Hallmark musical. (See also: Disney flash ... More >>

BPA Found in Kid-Friendly Canned Foods

Campbell'sDisney princesses may contain toxic chemicals​ Disney princesses may be toxic, and not just for sociological reasons. New testing by the Breast Cancer Fund has found BPA (bisphenol-A) in six brands of canned foods marketed to children, with the highest level in Campbell's Disney Prin ... More >>

A Monster of a Good Time

Five Things That Could Go Wrong at Disney's Newly-Planned Avatar Land

​ Of all that is in the name of being over-commercialized and tacky, Disney is prepping to open one of several Avatar lands at its Walt Disney World theme park in Florida. The first is expected to break ground in 2013 at its Animal Kingdom portion. Here are five things that are bound to go w ... More >>

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

Star Tours Revamp at Disneyland, the LA Weekly Review: The Force is Strong with This Ride

©2011 Disney Enterprises, Inc./Lucasfilm Ltd.Make sure all tray tables are in the upright and locked position.​ The crowds were thick on the opening weekend of Disneyland's newest offering Star Tours -- The Adventures Continue, with throngs of fans sporting prehensile Yoda backpacks plopping ... More >>

The Love Bug

VIDEO: Disney Stars Get Kicked Out of L.A. Apple Store for G-Rated 'Lemonade Mouth' Flash Mob

YouTubeiDisney​As far as flash mobs go -- within that zany, renegade art form of creating sudden chaos in an agreed-upon public location -- it doesn't get more corporate than reenacting a scene from a made-for-TV Disney movie in an Apple Store. At Eastertime, no less! But apparently, no flash ... More >>

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Gnomeo & Juliet

Cultural Wars, Debacles

The Living Sisters sign with Vanguard and prepare new album

The Living Sisters sign with Vanguard and prepare new album

Uncle Remus Redux

Why Disney should revive Song of the South and bury The Princess and the Frog

Stgage Raw: Maid in Los Angeles (Mary Poppins)

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeNEW REVIEW GO MARY POPPINS  ​Photo by Joan MarcusThe riveting theatricality of Bob Crowley's production design, climaxing in chimney sweep Bert (Gavin Lee) soft-shoeing ... More >>

Dirty Projectors to Perform at Disney Hall Alongside the LA Philharmonic in February

Those of you lucky enough to have been at either of the two Dirty Projectors shows last night will understand, perhaps. Or maybe you saw the Brooklyn band at the Troubadour in the summer, when they did a lot of the music from their totally magnetic new Bitte Orca; or at the Echoplex two years ago, w ... More >>

A Tale of Two Movies

When things go miraculously right — or horribly wrong

Alice in Wonderland Fashion Battle: Tim Burton's New School vs. Cartoon Disney Old School

Tim Burton's film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland isn't out until next year, but if the promo photos are any indication, it's going to be the most visually arresting, luxurious Alice yet. Here's a look at how new Alice stacks up against older Alices from a fashion perspective. 1. Alice The new ... More >>

Fanning the Fame: Rapper Fannius Makes the Journey From Disney to the Viper Room

Unhappy as clean-cut rap star, Fan 3 finds new indie voice on being dropped by studio and record label for smoking pot

The New Year's Eve "Nuclear Option": STAY HOME, Save Your Energy for Jan. 20 Parties

Really, there aren't any essential shows tonight. You could go to the big-ass rave downtown, could go see a sad and obviously shattered Scott Weiland perform with Stone Temple Pilots at Club Nokia, but really why would you want to do that? Yeah, the little clubs have their indie rock and indie dance ... More >>

Disney Live-Action Classics

The Parent Trap, That Darn Cat and other classics shake off their weak remakes

Film Reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Blades of Glory

Also, The Hills Have Eyes II, Air Guitar Nation and After the Wedding

The 2006 Academy Award–Nominated Shorts

Lubitsch in Berlin

The Festive Muse

The Year In Night Music

Disneyland Memorial Orgy

Rainy Season

Pipe Poop

Bliss for the Thunderers

Spatial Non-Delivery

Cold Feet

Coping with uncertainty in Scandinavia and Hollywood

Disney Hall, The Sound, the Fury, the Wounded Knees

(But it’s a nice place to visit)

Slushed in 2003

The Right Rite

Aargh!

Pirates of the Caribbean is big, loud, empty

Up the Nile Without a Paddle

Don’t cry for me, ancient Egypt . . .

Fuck the Canon

A conversation with Clive Barker

Sleeping Beauties

The Sugarplastic’s escape to tomorrowland

Signs of 'Arrival'

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes

Your Ad Here. And Here. And Maybe Here.

Holy Moses!

DreamWorks spins the Bible

Halloween Costume Ideas

Disney's Inferno

To hell and back