Karina Longworth

The Campaign begins with an on-screen quote attributed to Ross Perot: "War has rules. Mud wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules." The Texas billionaire/private-campaign-financing pioneer dropped this truism not during his historic third-party run for the presidency in 1992 but in the midst of his far less successful 1996......

Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 9 Don't Knock the Rock, Cinefamily's annual summer series of seminal rock & roll flicks co-founded by L.A. Weekly People 2012 person Allison Anders, kicks off tonight with a screening of Jobriath A.D., Kieran Turner's documentary......

Chinese artist, activist and antagonist Ai Weiwei became a worldwide cause célèbre in April 2011 when he was arrested by authorities at the Beijing airport, detained in an undisclosed location for nearly three months and then released after allegedly confessing to tax evasion. The Sundance-feted documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry......

"My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It's not contagious — I mean, it's contagious, but don't worry: Grown-ups don't catch it. It's called mouth-foot-and-butt disease or something." Julie Delpy materializes on the patio of Hollywood's Chateau Marmont on a wave of nervous energy. Hair pinned up away......

Todd Solondz's strange, oddly moving new film stars Jordan Gelber as Abe, a fat, mid-30-something who lives with his parents and works for his dad (Christopher Walken). Garishly uncool, he wears horrible novelty T-shirts and drives a yellow Hummer; socially inept, he alternates between suspiciously easygoing politeness and petulant rage......

Shirley Clarke's The Connection is a faux document of a day in the life of a group of heroin addicts holed up in a one-room New York City squat and biding time until Cowboy (Carl Lee) comes back with the day's score of "shit." All the while, a wannabe vérité......

"I don't want to give you lessons in self-denial and social responsibility," an art dealer tells her billionaire boy client in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis, by way of refusing to entertain his demand to buy the Rothko Chapel. "Because I don't believe for a second you're as crude as you sound."......

Michael Winterbottom is multitasking — like that's a surprise. He has made a dozen films in the past decade, as varied as the Steve Coogan–as–Steve Coogan joints 24 Hour Party People and The Trip, the controversial Jim Thompson adaptation The Killer Inside Me and two radically different assessments of the......