Viggo Mortensen

Silent Hitchcock, Sean Connery and a Coachella Valley Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 14 The Coachella music festival may be over, but the Coachella Valley is keeping the party going with AMFM (Art Music Film and More) through June 16 in Cathedral City. More than 50 films will screen at the UltraStar Mary Pickford Stadium 14, ... More >>

Lord of the Rings Fans Celebrate The Hobbit's 75th Anniversary at TheOneRing.net's Annual Picnic

"We were the number one place to be in Hollywood on Oscar night!" Josh Rubinstein gushes, reminiscing about the three celeb-laden Academy Awards parties he helped plan as one of the L.A. events supervisors for Lord of the Rings superfan site TheOneRing.net (TORn). Elijah Wood, Peter Jackson and most ... More >>

Mr. Burns Strikes Again

2011 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics' Poll

Parsing the data

A Dangerous Method Review

David Cronenberg on the birth of psychoanalysis

David Cronenberg Interview

In dialogue with director of A Dangerous Mind

Toronto Film Festival: Todd Solondz's Dark Horse and What it Says About Contemporary Jewish Angst

Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber in Dark Horse​ "We're Jews, and Jews we shall always be." So a main character warns of the us-vs-them difference that would define the first half of the 20th century, in A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg's period piece triangulating the Oedipal relationship b ... More >>

Top 5 Apocalypse Movie Food Scenes

Alle your McDonald's are belong to us.​There's a scene in "War of the Worlds," the 2005 remake not the 1953 original, when Tom Cruise finds berserker survivalist Tim Robbins holed up in his basement. After sheltering him from the aliens, Robbins offers him peach schnapps. Even then, he (and th ... More >>

Middle of The Road

Long-delayed Cormac McCarthy adaptation takes the path of least resistance

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

Should We Listen to Stuart Klawans' Call for a Moratorium on Holocaust Movies?

From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust

TV Reviews: Crash and My Own Worst Enemy: When Worlds Collide

Navigating L.A.'s social and racial minefields, plus Christian Slater's mind games

Appaloosa: Old Western

Ed Harris shoots straight, but Viggo Mortensen steals the show

Patti Stanger

Match game

2007 Film Poll: If It Bleeds, It Leads

Dark and violent movies top the year’s best. What are we — at war or something?

In the Eco Chamber

Shopping at the Eco Gift Expo

Filthy Waters Run Black

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Happy Trails

Getting back in the saddle

Wind From the East

An accessible narrative belies something much darker in Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises

Reality, According to Cronenberg

Authentic as it feels, the world of Eastern Promises is still a fantasy

the Host and His Protégée

Tyson Cornell and Erin Levy, Book Soup

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Borat

Last Orgasm in Hollywood

Movie sex, dirty and clean, through the ages

Punk Puppet Apocalypse

Starring members of Green Day, Rancid, X and more, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is guaranteed to offend

Fairy Lust

The Art of Bodily Horror

A History of Violence director David Cronenberg talks about history — and violence

The Coffee Table

All things bright and beautiful

Don’t Tread On Me

In two new films, foreign directors show us their vision of a gun-crazy America

Small Press Is Beautiful

Separate, Unequal — and Turned Away

What it’s like to be a Palestinian looking for a house in Jerusalem

A Few Good Eggs

The Good Soldier

Welcome to the Jungle

Edited by Kateri Butler

All’s Well in the Shire

Lord of the Rings’ happy ending

Faulty Towers

Peter Jackson at mid-epic

Worlds of Wonder

The Lord of the Rings and Monster's Ball; plus, The Majestic

Out of the Frying Pan

After the Taliban, will Afghanistan’s women really be free?

Psycho Killer

Gus Van Sant’s imitation of art

Female Trouble

From Paltrow to Pickford