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Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Hania,' 'Nothing Like the Holidays,' More

What The Devil Has Happened to Popcorn Prices?

Remember the good old days, when a family of four could go see a movie, snack on some popcorn, and still have change from two dollars? No, neither do I, but that's what was happening 80 years ago, during the Great (ie First) Depression.It's not often that you'll see me quoting a story from Gizmodo, ... More >>

Gus Van Sant's 'Milk' Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time

Remember the good old days, when a family of four could go see a movie, snack on some popcorn, and still have change from two dollars? No, neither do I, but that's what was happening 80 years ago, during the Great (ie First) Depression.It's not often that you'll see me quoting a story from Gizmodo, ... More >>

The True Bromance of Judd Apatow and Seth Rogan's 'Pineapple Express'

Remember the good old days, when a family of four could go see a movie, snack on some popcorn, and still have change from two dollars? No, neither do I, but that's what was happening 80 years ago, during the Great (ie First) Depression.It's not often that you'll see me quoting a story from Gizmodo, ... More >>

[Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

Remember the good old days, when a family of four could go see a movie, snack on some popcorn, and still have change from two dollars? No, neither do I, but that's what was happening 80 years ago, during the Great (ie First) Depression.It's not often that you'll see me quoting a story from Gizmodo, ... More >>

Playing the Game

From the director of Better Luck Tomorrow comes...a comedy about Bruce Lee?

Eight-legged Freaks

New York trembles as Spidey, Doc Ock, play patty-cake

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spideys run

New Film Reviews

Glory Road, Hoodwinked, Last Holiday, Tristan & Isolde

The Son Also Rises

But truth eludes City by the Sea

I, Bug

On Spider-Man and Woody Allen

Sundance Picks Up "Spooner" Director Drake Doremus' Film "Douchebag"

Photo by Matt Coker Drake Doremus at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival party for filmmakers.​Drake Doremus, the former Santa Ana resident whose comedy Spooner scooped up several awards on the festival circuit, just learned his newest film will make its world premiere at Sundance.Douchebag--whic ... More >>

Sundance Report: Sitting on a Bus With Colin Hanks

"Orange County" star​From a Friday morning plane ride to Salt Lake City with Todd Lowe to a Saturday afternoon bus ride through Park City with Colin Hanks. Since it's a confirmed fact everything happens in threes, one wonders what the next mode of transportation/young star combo will b ... More >>

Bad 'Date Night'

Tina Fey and Steve Carell go lowbrow and chemistry-free

More People Opposed to Gustavo as UCLA Commencement Speaker--Hooray!

Listen to the phone call above, which makes it the second irate UCLA parent to call my office line, and the second parent who didn't bother leaving a number so I could call them back and engage in polite discourse. Then read this opinion piece in the Daily Bruin from last week against the selection ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

[Summer Guide] Flicks to help you enjoy the great indoors

(UPDATED) The Text of Gustavo's UCLA Commencement Speech

​This is Gustavo, writing from the past. I've scheduled this post to go live at 6:30 p.m, probably just a couple of minutes after I gave this speech at UCLA commencement ceremony. These are my prepared remarks--I'm not planning to stray from them unless some people not happy with me say something. ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Implodes to Prove a Point

'I'm Still Here' takes on the Hollywood machine. We think

Rock, Hard Place

James Franco puts his mind to it in '127 Hours'

Art Whore: The Old In and Out

​ART WHORE likes the sexy.So this week's blog--an assemblage of links with brief commentary--is dedicated to the sexy in recent Arts & Culture.*****

Into the Mystic

Cults and the uncertain futures dominate Sundance

Boob War 2011: The Oscar Special Edition (Cleavage Pics After the Jump)

​Have you ever wondered why the Academy Awards are held in late February? It stems from an agreement between the Vatican and the motion picture industry that allows Hollywood, from November through February, to gorge on cleavage like bed bugs on a hemophiliac, so long as the entirety of Tinseltown ... More >>

'Your Highness' Is Stoned and Throned

James Franco's latest offers dirty jokes for the D&D crowd

R.E.M.'s 'Every Day is Yours to Win' on YouTube for 24 Hours Only

​How do you celebrate the best R.E.M. album to come out in 15 years? The band did it by releasing a short film to accompany each song from Collapse Into Now. Every Day Is Yours To Win, the latest film in s Collapse Into Now Film Project, is currently streaming on YouTube's homepage for 24 hours. T ... More >>

James Franco's Next Project: A Dance EP for DJ/rupture's Dutty Artz

​Hollywood renaissance man James Franco has done pretty much everything except release his own record; today, we learned that a dance EP is next on his list. The project is called  Franco and Kalup, and it's a collaboration between Franco and drag video/performance artist Kalup Linzy. Franco, ... More >>

James Franco's Band, Now With a Music Video!

​Who knew that James Franco's band, Kalup & Franco, has a soon-to-be-released album called Turn It Up? Who knew that Kalup & Franco was made up of the actor and drag performance artist/Franco collaborator Kalup Linzy? We warned you about it a couple of weeks ago...and now the video is he ... More >>

'Rise of the Planet of the Apes': Simian Disobedience

The making of a monkey activist

In 'One Day,' Life Happens According to Plan

July 15 is a very important date

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