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Music Docs, Rushmore and a Burbank Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Aug. 30 The film and music festival Don't Knock the Rock returns to Cinefamily with a lineup of music documentaries, live performances and DJs. Nearly all the films will feature a postscreening Q&A with the filmmakers, including one moderated by L.A. Weekly's Jeff Weiss on Saturday. Kicking ... More >>

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson on his new 70 mm film

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Still a Malcontent

A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off!

Project X Teen Parties All The Rage in SoCal

There are many ways to party, from bottle service lounges to superclubs, beach soirees to after-hours undergrounds. But the latest thing, it seems, is to break into someone's empty house and go apeshit. Teens are being inspired, maybe, by the spring teen flick Project X, a movie about one almighty ... More >>

Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

2012 Best Picture Nominees: Performed by L.A. Bars and Restaurants

Playing host and home to the Academy Awards, this town vibrates with excitement (Editor's note: Or something, depending on your thoughts re 9/11 and Hawaiian shirts, Harvey Weinstein and whether or not you, too, wanted a refund after seeing The Artist, as did some folks in Liverpool) by the end of F ... More >>

Harry Potter Theme Park Coming to Universal Studios Hollywood

​Updated at the bottom with a quote from J.K. herself. First posted at 11:44 a.m. Merry Christmas, nerds. Looks like Harry Potter the theme park is coming to town even though we know you've been way too nice. The place will likely be called Wizarding World of Harry Potter. And it'll be loc ... More >>

ThunderCats to Appear at San Diego Comic-Con Before Cartoon Network Premiere

Shannon CottrellEthan Spaulding, Michael Jelenic, Dan Norton of ThunderCats​ThunderCats art director Dan Norton has a sign in his office that reads, "This is the day you dreamed of when you were 12 years old." "I was a ridiculous ThunderCats fan," he says. "I mean, you would run home from ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Crucible

New Theater ReviewsTheater Awards ReportTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy Norris​Photo by Byron Turk is from Theatre Banshee's production of The Crucible, which critic Amy Lyons argues is a powerful manifestation of our culture of fear; Bill Raden was less impressed with Lauren Gunderson's new ... More >>

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ "L.A. proved too much for the man," sang Gladys Knight, "So he's leavin' the life he's come to know, He said he's goin' back to find [Ooh, said the Pips] what's left of his world, The world he left behind, Not so long ago." Well, "the man" was kind of a wuss, right? You don't have to take t ... More >>

Beauty & the Beat: Paper Mag's Party at The Standard on Sunset

​Beauty really is in the eye of beholder, especially when a magazine is doing the beholding. Julia Roberts and Beth Ditto may be like night and day in the looks department, but both graced "Beautiful Issue" covers recently. Predictably, the toothy superstar was on People magazine (she's got a ... More >>

TV Writers Get $70 Million In Age Discrimination Settlement

​One-hundred-sixty-five television writers jointly received a $70 million settlement Friday in their age-discrimination claim against some of Hollywood's biggest players, including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and more. " ... With years of disruptive litigation remaining, and all networks and major tel ... More >>

Flick in a Box

Constrained and restrained, Richard Kelly's latest is a hollow package

17 Again: Zac Efron Shoots Wad, Scores!

High School Musical — er — Basketball

GO LA: Alvin Ailey, Karen Kilgariff and the Bloody Truth About Downtown

(But not all at once): What to do, March 20-26

Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Hollywood

Zack Snyder doesn't ruin the comic book adaptation. But he doesn't get it either

He's Just Not That Into You: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating

We're just not that into Drew Barrymore's latest

Bollywood Goes East — Far East — for Chandni Chowk to China

Kung fu pandamonium

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

By Phil Freeman In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random stran ... More >>

Rob Corddry Talks Clowns and New Web Series Childrens' Hospital

By Liz OhanesianHave you ever wondered what would happen if the self-absorbed, hypersexual doctors on Grey's Anatomy were staffed at a children's hospital? After spending some time in the emergency room at L.A.'s Children's Hospital, former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry asked himself that sam ... More >>

Heading into the Holidays

Fur goes big, Bond goes missing, girls go vamp and Dark Knight just goes

Warner Brothers to Release 50th Anniversary Book, 320-Song (copy-protected, of course) USB Flash Drive

The main thing that the major labels have going for them, and why even the most battle-scarred of them has more "value" than budding minor labels, is due to their combined back catalog. During the fat times of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the labels weren't just selling records but buying other labels ... More >>

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

Dark Knight, Late-Night Wars and More: What a Bunch of Jokers:

But for some in Hollywood, the joke's on them

Indie Remix: Los Angeles Film Festival 2008

Our critics weigh in on the best, and the rest, of this year's event

Major Comings and Goings in Hollywood's Big Leagues

For Whom the Ax Falls

Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Two

S-E-X for sale from Turner Classic Movies

Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the future.

No Reservations: Light Dining

Sweet and savory fare — without the foam

Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Tween Demo

Bringing smarty back, Nancy Drew returns for another generation of young consumers

Talk of the Town

The Good German: Out of the Past

Soderbergh’s film noir valentine looks great, less filling

Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 3

Pen Pals

Bullock and Reeves make love in the twilight zone

Vamp to Camp

In TCM’s new Bette Davis biodoc, the fierce icon makes a comeback

Farm Girl Goes Hollywood

Laura Kim

Dark Victory

Designing a museum exhibition

Two Great Tastes that Taste Kinda Awesome Together . . .

Iron Miner’s Daughter

Charlize Theron gets some respect from men

Foul Territory

The Summer: No Bummer

Thank God for big expensive favors

Let It Be Beautiful

Secrets of the universe revealed by the Flaming Lips

Stuck in the middle with Neo

The Matrix Reloaded, sorta

Future Sounds

The Year In Music

Sight and Sound

How the Vitaphone Corporation brought them together

Eyes Wide Open

No rest for the wicked in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

Truth or Derrière

Edited by Kateri Butler

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds