Uma Thurman

Pulp Shakespeare

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Pulp Shakespeare

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Ceremony

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Amelia, Astro Boy, Saw VI

Also Cirque du Freak, Stan Helsing and more

American Music Awards Fashion Mini-Notes

Just a couple of things that came to mind while alternately watching the 2008 American Music Awards and doing laundry last night. 1. Queen Latifah in Skinny JeansHere is proof that big women CAN wear skinny jeans and look hot, hot, hot. What makes it work are (1) the long sleek hair with a bit of ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Zombie Strippers, Floating Life, Lost in Beijing

Also, Flight of the Red Balloon, Dark Matter and more

Film Reviews

Reviews of Monster House, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and more

Timothy Liar

A biography

What is Not Sexy

Victoria's Secret launched its first "What is Sexy" list. (why? your guess is as good as mine) But it leaves me seriously wondering if Victoria has any real secrets at all. I won't argue with their choice to make St. Tropez the sexiest international city, I've never been there, but I hear the chicks ... More >>

Farting in Church

How to make irreverence matter

The Chic and the "Eek!"

Everybody's got an opinion when it comes to Oscar fashion, and since I'm in the Style Council, I can pretend mine matters. Coolio! I watched it all on the tube last night (no red carpet camping and definitely no traffic-jammed, hoity toity after-parties for me, at least not this year) with the rest ... More >>

Over-Produced

Mel Brooks drags his indestructible classic back to the screen

As I Die Lying

Tuning family heartstrings in the ICU

The Meta-Media Madness Top 10

Tuning family heartstrings in the ICU

The Good Soldier

Tuning family heartstrings in the ICU

Bang Bang Kiss Kiss

The smashing conclusion to Tarantino’s double Bill

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

Once Upon a Time in the East

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (or half of it, anyway)

Stormy Weather

Monsoon Wedding shelters under a tree of chestnuts

Twisting Darwin

Evolution, eugenics and racism, American style

Eros Bound

Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl

Movies! Movies! Movies!

Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl

Time Regained

The 53rd Cannes film festival

Speed, Baby, Speed

Doug Liman's gone Go

Hard Times

Wiseman's Public Housing, August's Les Miserables

Top Ten Choices for a Live-Action Lara Croft

Wiseman's Public Housing, August's Les Miserables