Hollywood

I'm Obsessed With This Song (For the Time Being)

"Wintertime in Hollywood" by the Lovetones is not the type of song that normally takes hostage of my internal jukebox in 2007, but it's been doing just that for the last two days. Its full, chiming guitars, swooping bass line, mellifluous white soul vocals and profound tone of bittersweet wistfulnes ... More >>

FOX seeks OC bar confessions!

Southern California's reputation for shallow lives will be enhanced this summer by the Fox Reality Channel. Go Go Luckey Productions (producer of Laguna Beach on MTV) says it plans to place private "confessional booths" in several So Cal bars including the lovely Mosun in Laguna Beach, Anaheim's J.C ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 10-5-07

It's hard to get all that enthused about some of the releases this week, but there's one that I'm definitely all fired up NOT to see. THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING Remember back when Harry Potter was first going to be a movie, and it was suggested that Steven Spielberg would direct, with Haley Jo ... More >>

Another racist Hollywood move?

When I heard that Dragon Ball Z would be a movie, I was more than excited. For years, I dreamed of a live-action Dragon Ball flick, but then I was the guy who owned all the mangas and watched that ancient cheap live-action version of Dragon Ball: The Spirits Within. I used to watch the show before ... More >>

Feel better about your mess

Since moving to Santa Ana from a much larger Hollywood apartment, my home life has been a constant battle against clutter and trash, a struggle I generally lose. I can't invite anyone over to visit due to the shame of my omnipresent pile o' crap. But I feel a whole lot better about it after reading ... More >>

To Do Tonight 4/1

Free Beer Giveaway, All day long! Call for details! Seriously! 625 N. Grand Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92701 (714) 796-7740 Samurai Sword Wack-Off, 7 p.m. Come smack swords with some of the best men in the business. Test your strength. Huntington Beach Pier 714-550-5963 Mary Tyler Moore Laser Light Show ... More >>

Y Tu, Dude?

Patient: The inevitable Hollywood remake of Y Tu Mama Tambien

Totally Groesbeck

The artist whose vision unchained DeMille

Various Artists

The artist whose vision unchained DeMille

In Platos Cave

Chance Theaters A History of the American Film

This Week in the OC Weekly

In "Less is Mor" Vickie Change educates us about Hollywood nightlife mogul Anton Posniak, who set out to remake the OC scene. Now he’s got more lawsuits than restaurants here. Gustavo Arellano mocks California's fires in "The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!". And Matt Co ... More >>

'Bolt,' Disney's Latest 'Toon, Is a Starry Dog Story

In "Less is Mor" Vickie Change educates us about Hollywood nightlife mogul Anton Posniak, who set out to remake the OC scene. Now he’s got more lawsuits than restaurants here. Gustavo Arellano mocks California's fires in "The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!". And Matt Co ... More >>

Summer '08: Batman Saved the Season, While a Little 'Sex' Went a Long Way and the Indies Went South

In "Less is Mor" Vickie Change educates us about Hollywood nightlife mogul Anton Posniak, who set out to remake the OC scene. Now he’s got more lawsuits than restaurants here. Gustavo Arellano mocks California's fires in "The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!". And Matt Co ... More >>

Full of Itself and Not Half As Funny As It Thinks It Is, 'Hamlet 2' Is Simply Tragic

In "Less is Mor" Vickie Change educates us about Hollywood nightlife mogul Anton Posniak, who set out to remake the OC scene. Now he’s got more lawsuits than restaurants here. Gustavo Arellano mocks California's fires in "The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!". And Matt Co ... More >>

By Any Other Name

Two independent festivals join forcest in Mickey's backyard

Locals Only

All That Spazz: 40 Bands/80 Minutes documents SoCals sonic outsiders

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

Mutant Puppet Rock Band Roolz

Radioactive Chicken Heads Carrot Topp declares GWAR

Notes from the Underground

Film terrorists in Cecil B. DeMented, Aimee & Jaguars verboten love

A Mighty Whiff

Christopher Guests latest Hollywood dart is duller than his first

Being Bong

Save the world: Hotbox your limousine

Remote Hog

Entourage

Bloody Revenge

OnDVD: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Deep-Sixed

Hollywood pounces on 6-6-06 with a needless Omen revival

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Sunset Boulevard

After the Crash

2006 Newport Beach Film Festival has a tough act to follow

Revised for the Web!

The MVP of Black Cinema

At 73, this baadasssss shows no signs of slowing down

Diary of a Mad County

March 29 - April 4

Behind the Blue Door

Legs McNeil gatecrashes the other Hollywood

Eight Days

Legs McNeil gatecrashes the other Hollywood

The Horror, the Horror

Everything old is boo again

Romance and Resistance

Head in the Clouds sexes up war, Zelary brings it back to real life

13 Things I Learned Watching 13 Going on 30

Head in the Clouds sexes up war, Zelary brings it back to real life

Clubbed!

Head in the Clouds sexes up war, Zelary brings it back to real life

War, Peace and Hank

Onscreen dissent is on campus

Stars and Barbs

Forbidden Hollywood is a laugh riot

Black Beauty

Forbidden Hollywood is a laugh riot

How Neatly Spreads His Claws

The 18th annual Sundance Film Festival

See Owen Run

Another top gun goes Behind Enemy Lines

Not a Movie

Watching the unwatchable

Blow Hard

Wolfgang Petersens The Perfect Storm

Monique Powell, Hypersensitive Lead Singer, Save Ferris

Wolfgang Petersens The Perfect Storm

Still Crazy

Wolfgang Petersens The Perfect Storm

MST3Ks Legacy Will Live On

And Hollywood will never be the same

[Special Screenings] Polish Film Festival, 'Battle In Seattle,' More

And Hollywood will never be the same

Orange County Bands Set to Invade LA This Weekend

Plenty of our fave OC bands are headed to a particularly populated county to the north of us this weekend--like Anaheim's We Are the Pilots, pictured.

O.C. Restaurant Week: The Sequel, Coming in September

In Hollywood, when you've got a hit on your hands, you develop a sequel.  And In OC, when your first ever OC Restaurant Week helped to spur business in a down economy, you do the same.  Following the Hollywood playbook (except within the same year), the second coming of OC Restaurant Week is slate ... More >>

CAIR, WGA-West Seek the Next Great Muslim Hollywood Screenwriter

​A shy, talented and unlucky Jewish kid from a loud, talented and obscenely prosperous family refuses to follow in his successful parents' and siblings' footsteps because he dreams of becoming a Hollywood screenwriter--and he's even completed what he knows is the script of the century.But, somehow ... More >>

CAIR, Speaker, Student Say Muslim Screenwriting Seminar "a Success"

​Despite Clockwork's attempt to jest while previewing the Council on American-Islamic Relations' "Writing for Hollywood" seminar and pat its own back for getting inserted into the New York Times' coverage of the event for aspiring Muslim screenwriters (as well as some unkind reader comments to our ... More >>

What Local Celeb Was at the Hollywood Farmer's Market?

My chica, in her role as a master food preserver, is at the Hollywood Farmer's Market every so often to tell folks about how to preserve food. I went with her this past Sunday, and apparently was so immersed in a magazine that I cut in front of an Orange County celebrity, one that the paparazzi were ... More >>