Karina Longworth

Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher's one-woman show-turned-book-turned–one-woman show, premieres as a feature-length concert film this week on HBO. The Weekly talked to the actress-memoirist about crafting confessionals as entertainment, and why she's less than thrilled to be the object of sexual fantasies of Star Wars fans. L.A. WEEKLY: You have so......

Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The Company Men is transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now from a sensitive, equitable — rather than a withering and satiric — point of view. Writer-director......

"Maybe I should just tell you some of the facts as I remember them," Spalding Gray says a few minutes into And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderbergh's fascinating posthumous documentary on the writer-actor-monologuist, who apparently killed himself by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in 2004. Soderbergh, who filmed......

"She doesn't sing that way because she's had it easy." This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the nightclub at the center of Burlesque, defends her new star, Ali (Christina Aguilera), to the club's jealous, deposed marquee attraction, Nikki (Kristen Bell). The same phrase could substitute as a......

With tongues partially in cheek, Disco and Atomic War director Jaak Kilmi and screenwriter Kiur Aarma, who grew up in the same neighborhood of Tallinn, Estonia, in the 1980s, lay out the case that Cold War Soviet rule of their country was fatally eroded by Western pop culture, in the......

There are two surprising things about Straight to Hell Returns, the digitally spiffed-up version of Alex Cox's 1987 "paella Western." The first is that it even exists, considering the low esteem in which Straight to Hell was held upon its release. The second is that, as far as director's cuts......

A sequel to his 2006 Hollywood Dreams, Henry Jaglom's Queen of the Lot again stars Tanna Frederick as Maggie, an Iowa farm-girl-turned-action-starlet-turned-TMZ-staple. In an obvious nod to Lindsay Lohan, a series of DUIs have left this redhead shackled with a location-monitoring ankle bracelet and a dearth of acting work. Sentenced......

When legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis died yesterday at the age of 91, he left behind a filmography spanning six decades, several continents, and pretty much every conceivable film genre, from Italian neorealism (Europa '51) to sci-fi sexploitation (Barbarella), pedigreed literary adaptations (Milos Forman's film of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime)......