AltWeeklies Wire
LA People: Michael Kearnsnew
Brad Davis' death jolted Kearns into speaking out not only about AIDS, but against the entertainment industry's self-congratulatory, red-ribbon response to it.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
05-11-2007 |
Movies
'Black Book,' 'Grindhouse' and the Relativist Holenew
When pop aestheticism reaches all the way from effusing over the ritualized violence and reverse feminism of Grindhouse to heaping laurels on a movie that pits sensitive Nazis against treacherous resisters, it may be time to get uncool and start pointing the finger.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-20-2007 |
Movies
'Grindhouse' Gangnew
Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
04-06-2007 |
Movies
Austin City Limitsnew
Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
03-23-2007 |
Movies
Everything's Gone Greennew

From An Inconvenient Truth to The Host, filmmakers unleash a new kind of scary movie.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
03-16-2007 |
Movies
Chest of Liesnew
Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
02-02-2007 |
Movies
Unromancing the Stonenew
In 2006, the Basic Instinct beauty showed she wasn't just another pretty face.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
01-30-2007 |
Movies
The Sundance Kidsnew
For alumni of America's most prestigious film festival, winning is less than half the battle.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-19-2007 |
Movies
Immortal Mayhemnew
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
01-12-2007 |
Movies
Last Orgasm in Hollywoodnew
Sex on film through the ages bring us to the question -- what makes movie sex dirty?
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
10-12-2006 |
Movies
Cash and Carreynew
Jim firing his agent is juicier than any episode of Entourage.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikke Finke |
09-21-2006 |
Movies
War of the Worldsnew
Cruise and Redstone do battle -- prepare for a true epic.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
08-24-2006 |
Movies
Freedom of Informationnew
Free speech and intellectual-property rights are now on a collision course, and may in fact collide next month with the theatrical release of Kirby Dick's incendiary This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
L.A. Weekly |
Paul Cullum |
08-17-2006 |
Movies
Hubert Cornfield, 1929–2006new

Death came so quietly for Hubert Cornfield that it astonished even the nurse who was bringing him his breakfast -- such a departure was completely in character.
L.A. Weekly |
F.X. Feeney |
07-13-2006 |
Movies
Go, Johnny, Go!new
Depp gives Disney the pirate's booty.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikke Finke |
07-13-2006 |
Movies