AltWeeklies Wire
Desperation Nationnew
Tori Spelling skewers herself for a laugh in So NoTORIous, while the guys in King of Cars dunk themselves for a sale.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Abele |
04-06-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Brothers Grimnew
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne discuss making moving pictures.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Inside Jobnew
Spike Lee puts a new spin on an old formula.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
03-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Spike Lee, Inside Man
Dry and On the Rocksnew
The new British comedy imports are by turns nostalgic, broad, outrageous and chilly, but they're all still indicative of a television culture that cherishes a richer, less obvious kind of laugh.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Abele |
03-23-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Who's Your Daddy, America?new
Big Love and Sons & Daughters present dysfunction in two new models.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Abele |
03-16-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Oscar Hangovernew
This five-step program will end the misery of the most incoherent, inchoate and just plain stinko Oscar telecast in recent memory.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikke Finke |
03-09-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
Punk Puppet Apocalypsenew
Starring members of Green Day, Rancid, X and more, Roecker's Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is guaranteed to offend.
L.A. Weekly |
Lina Lecaro |
03-02-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Roecker
Let's Not Get Everyone Killednew
The Unit, David Mamet's new military series on CBS, is not your typical swinging-dick soldier hour.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Abele |
03-02-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Dirty Deedsnew
Bad cops and brass-knuckle politics play out in two new tales of urban dystopia, Dirty and Street Fight.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
The Distributor Who Wasn't Therenew
Los Angeles filmmaker Brian Flemming would rather do it himself.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Leigh Morris |
02-16-2006 |
Movies
Darwin's Man in Africanew
Documentarian Hubert Sauper fishes for the truth about globalization and its discontents.
L.A. Weekly |
B. Ruby Rich |
02-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
How Gay Will Oscar Go?new
Handicapping who'll win, who'll lose and who'll just jerk off.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Will Oscar Have the Balls for Munich?new
There will be no press junket, no premiere and, most importantly, no blowout Oscar marketing campaign for Steven Spielberg's certain-to-be-controversial movie, Munich.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
12-05-2005 |
Movies
Who Hates Their MTV?new
The rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
10-14-2005 |
TV
Here's to You, Mrs. Robinsonnew
During her acting career, Anne Bancroft veered between two big-screen personas: queens like Annie Sullivan or Mrs. Robinson, or commoners who took their inspiration from her real life as Anna Maria Louise Italiano, native of the Bronx.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
06-10-2005 |
Movies
Tags: The Producers, Mel Brooks
