Jon Favreau

How the West Was Really Won

Gunslingers battle space invaders in movie mashup 'Cowboys and Aliens'

'Cars 2' and Others Are Summer's Season Openers

[SUMMER GUIDE] Superheroes, sequels and TWO Conans!

Fifteen Celebrities to Check Out at Comic-Con

​One of the unofficial highlights of San Diego Comic-Con is people watching. You've got your socially awkward fans who could use adult-sized Garanimals so they can dress themselves. You've got your cosplayers, your furries, your LARPers, your booth babes and your homebrew costume designers. A ... More >>

Five Things We Hope Are Covered in the Comic-Con Documentary

Keith MaySuper Girl, super flexible.​First discussed in February of this year, and confirmed earlier this week, a documentary about the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego is about to go into production. The team behind it is sort of an all-star roster in the intersection of film and geeks ... More >>

'Iron Man 2' Was Built to Last

Comic-book-based film will likely lead to more sequels, but that doesn't mean it should

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

'The Incredible Hulk' Becomes the Not-Terrible Hulk Under Ed Norton and Director Louis Leterrier

Stan in the place where you live

As much as I've always loved superheroes, I've always felt there was something just a little off-putting about Marvel head honcho Stan Lee, the person. And it isn't a righteous indignation thing about not giving his collaborators their due credit; Stan has relented on that score in later years, and ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 5-2-08

There's really only one, isn't there? I mean, sure, if you live near an L.A. art-house theater, you can and should go see SON OF RAMBOW, unless you already caught it at the Newport Beach fest. But I don't need to tell you what the main movie to see this weekend is. [Adopting Beavis and Butt-head v ... More >>

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Is a Thing to Marvel

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 2-15-08

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES Spiderwick, Spiderwick, does whatever a Spiderwick does... “And what exactly might that be?” I hear you inquire. In short: Entertain. THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES, aside from its blatant CG, is a charming throwback to all those Spielberg-produced kid movies of the '80s. ... More >>

Career Killah

Is Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface as Dumb as He Sometimes Acts?

2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

Comic-Con 2007: Iron Man

Oh hell yeah! Fuckin' Sabbath! YES! Thith ith cool, huh-huh, huh-hu, DUN DUN DAH DAH DAH, DUNANUNANUNA DUN DA DA DAH! Pardon momentary lapse into Butt-head-dom, but considering that the Transformers live-action movie failed to use the obvious theme song, one can never be too sure with Hollywood. Bu ... More >>

The Big Con

Out of the basement and into the spotlight, Comic-Con 2007 is the place to be

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: To Kill a Mockingbird

Where Is the Love?

Vaughn and Aniston go to war

America, Fuck Yeah!

Manners, shock value, traditional values and freedom of speech all collide in Fuck: A Fuckumentary

Newport Beach Film Festival: You Got Blurbed

Newport Beach Film Festival: Schedule of events

Compiled by Greg Stacy

Semi-Tough

Flub and bluster in Made

Damn Dirty Remakes

Summer flicks 2001