Tobey Maguire

Gatsby Is Sometimes Great But Not Always Good

Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti Duel Over Celebrity Vote in L.A. Mayoral Race

It's always fun to see who the cool kids -- i.e., celebrities -- line up with come election season, and this year's mayoral race is starting to attract that kind of attention. L.A. City Councilman Eric Garcetti recently rolled out a video starring a gushing Salma Hayek. Now it's City Controller Wend ... More >>

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

The "Spider-Man" Theme Song As Sung By the Ramones, Michael Bublé and Pauly Shore

If your spider-sense has been tingling lately it's because, today, The Amazing Spider-Man brings everyone's favorite arachnoid dude back to theaters. But while not everyone's looking forward to this Tobey Maguire-less incarnation, it does present an excellent opportunity to revisit the Spider-Man t ... More >>

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

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.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man's PC New Replacement Is Half-Black, Half-Latino

MarvelMiles Morales​Apparently, half-human, half-spider wasn't diverse/culturally cutting-edge enough for Marvel Comics' most revered superhero. Sorry, Peter Parker: In its "Ultimate" line of Spider-Man adventures, Marvel is looking to do like Beyonce and "Upgrade U" (or, more accurately, ki ... More >>

Manny Pacquiao: The Fight of His Life

Boxer goes for his greatest win yet — congressman

Sony Scrambling on Spidey

How a badly troubled script doomed Spider-Man 4

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Jonesy's Jukebox Returns -- Kind of -- Via Ryan Kavanaugh's IAMROGUE.com Platform

Steve Jones' legendary daytime talk show, "Jonesy's Jukebox," has returned to the airwaves -- or the digital version of them -- with a daily one-hour show on a website called IAMROGUE.com. Yes, it's true: "Jonesy's Jukebox" is back. Kind of. Fans of the show, which aired for five glorious years on ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

Best of L.A.: Burgers

Last Night: Jay-Z, Eminem, and the Celebrity Cult of the DJ Hero

The economy isn't entirely moribund, it's just that the real money's in wish fulfillment. At least that's the logical conclusion gained from last night's star-scarred Jay-Z and Eminem concert promoting DJ Hero, the latest sure-to-be-blockbuster installment of the Guitar Hero Franchise -- an event th ... More >>

BIDDING IN THE NAME OF ART

GO LA: Lebowski, Tom Arnold and Other Big Events

What to do in L.A., May 8-14

Sony Starts Another Spidey, N.Y. Times Unravels Convergence

Oh, what a tangled web

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

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

Hancock, America's Low-rent Superhero, Just in Time for the Recession

It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Superbum?

Movie Reviews: Forever, My Blueberry Nights, My Brother Is an Only Child

Also The Ruins and more

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

Once More Into the Bowl

Leonard Slatkin and Christopher O’Riley at the Hollywood Bowl

Best of Bale

Ten Christian Bale movies not to be missed

Spider-Man, in Black and White

When good superheroes turn reductive

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

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

The Good German: Out of the Past

Soderbergh’s film noir valentine looks great, less filling

On Deck With the Dealer to the Stars

The stakes aren’t as high, but the action’s still hot when Hollywood holds ’em

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Do You IMDB?

How a fanatic helped put Hollywood under one big tent

Eight-Legged Freaks

New York trembles as Spidey, Doc Ock play patty-cake

Hey, Donald, You Should Be Fired

The Apprentice’s host, like so many big-shot CEOs, is a big, fat fraud

Dark Shadows

Horse Balm and Bull Pucky

Seabiscuit, that is, and Buffalo Soldiers

Gods and Monsters

And a big hello to Mr. Green Genes

Mr. Fantastic, Superduper Star

Chris Jackson is a Backyard wrestler. All he wants from this media-saturated world is a little bit of glory, a little bit of fame. Even if it takes blood. Or having a fluorescent-light tube jammed

Truth or Consequences

Washington soars, Lee stumbles

Trouble Girl

Young graffiti artist JERK throws up a name for herself

Gotta Ham It to Ya

Edited by Kateri Butler

Pine-Box Office Hits

The Man Show

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

I, Bug

On Spider-Man and Woody Allen

Trouble Girl

Young graffiti artist JERK throws up a name for herself

Style and Substance

Stuff Happens

Campus Confidential

Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys

This Boy's Life

Actor Tobey Maguire

The War Zone

Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil

Over the Rainbow

Gary Ross' Pleasantville