run, fat boy, run

Shaun of the Dead 's Simon Pegg seems destined to be a star, but movies like Run, Fat Boy, Run won't do much to help the cause.

black tide

These Miami teens love their old-school heavy metal. Light From Above is their first album: They have all the moves down cold, but they ha...

usc makes the big dance

The Trojans, led by freshman sensation O.J. Mayo, go to Omaha Thursday to play the Kansas State Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA coll...

who are these "gutter twins" you speak of?

Songwriters Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, formerly of, respectively, the Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees, have teamed up as the Gutter Twins...

never back down

Can Hollywood capitalize on the trendy sport of mixed martial arts? The new teen drama Never Back Down suggests that, in a pinch, they'...

pete seeger

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is an adoring, moving documentary about the protest folk singer. I review it in this week's Consumables ,...

college road trip

Disney's latest piece of pseudo-wholesome family entertainment, College Road Trip , opens today. Watching Martin Lawrence try to be ador...

miss pettigrew lives for a day

Frances McDormand is terrific, Amy Adams is decent: That's the short review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day . The longer, more interes...

the los angeles brazilian film festival

The first annual Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival kicks off Friday at the Landmark. For L.A. Weekly , I sampled some of the festival...

david poland on barack obama

I've been reading wall-to-wall election coverage in the last 24 hours, but I'm not sure if anyone more accurately nailed the challen...

married life: the movie

Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson are both terrific in Married Life , a dark comedy-drama about one middle-aged couple's seemingly happ...

r.e.m.: well, this is encouraging

I don't condone Monster bashing, but Josh Modell's review at Spin about R.E.M.'s forthcoming Accelerate has me very excited. 

cj7

Writer-director-actor Stephen Chow, the man behind Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle , returns with CJ7 , a hyperactive kids' movie tha...