Val Kilmer

Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

Planes Raises Intriguing Questions About the Implications of Airplane Sentience

Val Kilmer Tells Us Why the World Needs Another Mark Twain Solo Show

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Watson and Holmes, Together Again

This week in L.A. theater, Jamie Robledo's Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini was our pick of the week, while ModRock at the El Portal also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. Our stage feature is an interview with Val Kilmer about his new Mark Twain solo show at the Kirk Douglas T ... More >>

Val Kilmer's Citizen Twain and Matthew McCray's Eternal Thou

Graf Orlock's Los Angeles Is All About the Movie Heat

For the past eight years, Los Angeles metal band Graf Orlock have been culling samples and dialogue from action movies like Predator and Lethal Weapon into a manic concoction of noise, punk and grindcore that they call "cinemagrind." The group twists seemingly innocuous dialogue from these badass fl ... More >>

Gigantic Art Party 'All in for the 99%' Raises Morale -- and Cash -- for Occupy L.A.

It rained just a little bit last Saturday afternoon, but that didn't stop several hundred people from showing up at the ACE Museum on 4th and La Brea for All in for the 99%, a mammoth art show, with readings, video, music, activism workshops and calls to action on behalf of the Occupy movement, set ... More >>

Val Kilmer as Mark Twain: "Anybody Trying to Find a Point in This Will Be Shot"

See also: *Our review of Ryan Adams, for whom Kilmer as Twain opened *Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match A bomb threat has sealed off the streets surrounding us, but Val Kilmer is calm. His long blond hair tied back into a loose ponytail, the actor is wearing a blue blazer, blue and ... More >>

Why Ryan Adams Isn't Allowing Photos

Illustration by Sam Washburn​By Kiernan Maletsky Friday night, Ryan Adams performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Check out our review of the show -- the opening act was Val Kilmer as Mark Twain -- you'll see that we have no photos from it. That's because on this tour Adams' isn't allowing t ... More >>

Ryan Adams - Disney Hall - 2/17/12

Ryan Adams Disney Hall 2-17-12 See also: Why Ryan Adams Isn't Allowing Photos Better than... Listening to Love Is Hell in its entirety on Valentine's Day because Heartbreaker just wouldn't be depressing enough. Unless that's your thing. I guess I'd consider myself in the 90th percentile of Ryan ... More >>

L.A. Woman Was the Doors' Bluesy Masterpiece, and Jim Morrison's Kiss-Off to L.A.

Is "Kiss From a Rose" to Blame for "My Heart Will Go On"? Maybe, but It's Still Awesome

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] We've all been there. What normally would be a forgettable moment of your existence -- standing in line at the supermarke ... More >>

Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

Handicapping the Oscars out of Toronto won't work this year

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

Kill the Irishman

Bruce Dern, Udo Kier, M. Emmet Walsh

The stars of Cinefamily's "That Guy!" series divulge their secrets

Children of the '80s, All "Grown Up"

From MacGyver to MacGruber: filmmakers pay homage to the pop-culture characters of their youth

I Love Rock & Roll (Movies): The Nightranger's Guide to LA Band-dom On Film

[Lina Lecaro writers our amazing Nightranger column every week. Check out her explorations of LA nightlife here.] With The Runaways bringing rock n' roll to movie theaters this week (see a report from the premiere here), we've been thinking about our favorite band n' beat packed films lately. Docum ... More >>

Movie Reviews: American Cowslip, Deadgirl, In the Loop, Orphan

Also, Afghan Star, Shrink, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg and more.

Best B-Star Fest: Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show

Movie Reviews: The Grocer's Son, Kenny, Space Chimps

Also, Felon and A Very British Gangster

Norman's Ark

Kathy Griffin's Kodak Moment

A Q&A with the former D-lister

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division portrait, Control, proves the exception to the rock-biopic drool

Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match.

The Iceman cometh

Into the Slabs

Hanging with Insane Wayne at the Salton Sea

Greek Love

Charles L. Mee’s Agamemnon, and Sarah Ruhl’s Demeter in the City

Tori Spelling's Got My Back . . .

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

Let's Not Get Everyone Killed

David Mamet’s American soldiers

Tori Spelling’s Got My Back...

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

From the Depths of Hell to Hollywood

A new documentary charts the remarkable rise of actor Danny Trejo

Who Was That Masked Man?

Christopher Nolan’s Batman begins with flesh and bone

Outisde Looking In

Lost in Translation

Notable Scene Stealers

(In a Good Way)

9 reason

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Oliver Stone aims for respectability

An Hour With Moses

The Old Testament superstar looks remarkably like Val Kilmer

Things Change

Spartan, Mamet’s off his game

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Wrong turns on the road to Wonderland

Stars Among Us: A Sighting

Miss Exotic World: Dixie's Chicks

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Gotta Ham It to Ya

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Tweakers in The Salton Sea and the wild boys of Dogtown

Holy Moses!

DreamWorks spins the Bible

The Six-Strings Mystique

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