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The American Idiots of 'Pain & Gain'

Michael Bay injects potent absurdity into this unbelievable true story

Top Five Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, September 21Lila DownsCity National Grove of AnaheimSince she emerged in 1999, Lila Downs has developed into one of the world's quintessential world music artists. Combining powerful, multilingual vocals and culturally diverse musical arrangements, songs like "Ojo de Culebra" help ... More >>

The Master of 'The Master'

Paul Thomas Anderson talks 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix, and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film

William Friedkin's Most Disturbing Film

The filmmaker on 'Killer Joe' and what's wrong with Hollywood

Jessica Simpson Pulls a Demi Moore, Poses Naked and Pregnant for Elle Cover

​April's ELLE magazine has former teen dream Jessica Simpson, 31, posing pregnant and naked on its cover. Simpson and fiance former NFL pro Eric Johnson are going to have a girl, the magazine revealed. It's another sad copy of the iconic Demi Moore cover from 1991. Moore's cover of Vanity Fair, w ... More >>

Will Drake Doremus' Like Crazy Sell and Rent Like You-Know-What on DVD and Blu Ray?

​Orange-born, Santa Ana-raised filmmaker Drake Doremus' 2011 movie Like Crazy is available starting today on DVD and Blu Ray. Co-written by Doremus and Corona del Mar's Ben York Jones, Like Crazy is the most adult of the filmmaker's three features (the other two being Spooner and Douchebag).

Hong Thai Luong, Former Tutor and Choir Teacher, Convicted of Molesting Girls, Ages 8-10

​A jury today convicted Hong Thai Luong, the former choir teacher at St. Callistus School in Garden Grove, of molesting four girls, ages 8 through 10.Only one girl attended the Catholic school, while the other three were enrolled at the now-closed Paramount Learning Center, which was also in Gar ... More >>

Employees, Various Support Groups Protest Outside Wal-Mart In Wake Of The Company's Recent Health Care Benefit Changes

flickr user Daisy.Sue​Wal-Mart's employees aren't nearly as happy as its logo.Employees are miffed with the company's decision to scale back health benefits for part-time employees and hike premiums for some full-time employees.As a result, a couple of Orange County groups are waging support campa ... More >>

Like Crazy Enjoys Crazy Good Arthouse Opening

​Taking $120,000 in weekend box office generally won't raise a Hollywood bean counter's eyebrow. It's certainly was not enough lucre for Santa Ana-bred filmmaker Drake Doremus' Like Crazy to crack the top 10 in overall estimated box office for the weekend past. But playing on only four screens in ... More >>

Michael Bay Shoots the Moon

Destroying Chicago and our brain cells: 'Transformers' is back

Into the Mystic

Cults and the uncertain futures dominate Sundance

Sundancing With Ben York Jones and Like Crazy

The huge film festival success through the eyes of its co-writer, an OC boy

Like Crazy at Sundance: 36 Hours I Will Never Forget

​I don't know where to begin. From a chatty 3 a.m. sardine car ride with indie-film gurus Greg Araki and Richard Linklater to nearly missing the premiere of Like Crazy (the film I co-wrote) to selling our film for distribution to Paramount the night of its world premiere, it has possibly been the ... More >>

[UPDATED] Like Crazy, Latest Film From OC-Bred Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, Is First Sundance Sale

​UPDATE, JAN. 23, 2:51 P.M.: The reaction to Like Crazy getting picked up from Ben York Jones:"I'm completely overwhelmed. I don't think anyone here with the film has gotten more than an hour or two of sleep in the past 36 hours. Those negotiating were up all night doing so, and the rest of us w ... More >>

3hree Things About The LA Times Food & Wine Celebration at the Paramount Pictures Lot

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.​The lady and I headed up to Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon to see what the first-ever LA Ti ... More >>

Will Trains or Lanes Connect Santa Ana to LA County?

Choo choo​Orange County residents who love public transit--yes, some of these people do exist--talk fondly of Southern California's train-taking heritage. There was a time when the Pacific Electric "Red Car" rail system connected OC to LA to the Inland Empire and beyond; getting around without a h ... More >>

Crime Time: Small Fries, Bad Tenants and the Church Lady

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--small fry edition . . . MONDAY, JULY 20Artist's rendering of Bank of America robber. He may belong to that notorious street gang, the Lollipop Kids.​Watch Those Kids at the Playground A 3-year-old boy was at the playground in Ponderosa Park ... More >>

J.J. Abrams's 'Star Trek' Reboot Is Proof That the Franchise Can Live Long and Prosper

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

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 5-21-08

Film pick of the weekend comes early this week, because when weekends go long, the movies open sooner. And we all know what you're going to go see at midnight tonight. I call it INDIANA JONES AND THE KICKING OF YOUR CRYSTAL ASS. (Don't tell me that "crystal ass" makes no sense. If Echo and the Bun ... More >>

Long Beach Trek-tacular

As much as I enjoy Star Trek, and always have, I can't say I was that enthused by the idea of “Star Trek: The Tour.” What could they show me that I haven't seen? Could it possibly top the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas? Do I really want to pay top dollar to see a bunch of multicolored spandex ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 1-17-08

CLOVERFIELD Since many people are asking what exactly “Cloverfield” means in the context of the movie, let's deal with that right of the bat – it doesn't mean anything. It wasn't even supposed to be the film's real title initially, just a red herring to throw people off track named after one ... More >>

DVDish

Boy Trouble

Confessions of a Comic-Con Virgin

A non-geek follows the king of geekdom into the heart of dorkness

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 8-3-07

HOT ROD It's not exactly going out on a limb to say that Andy Samberg has been the best addition to the Saturday Night Live cast in a long time – he's been the main reason that for the first time since the dawn of the Internet age, fans actually started downloading video from the show. While Lorn ... More >>

Comic-Con 2007: Of Paramount Disappointment, plus Jessica Alba and Peter Fonda

Damn, the lines here suck. Used to be that Comic-Con got bigger every year, and they expanded the available space to fit. Then the space ran out, and stuff kept getting bigger anyway. I wait in line half an hour for the Paramount panel, and don't even get close to getting in. Regroup. An hour later ... More >>

Comic-Con 2007: Rant Rant Rant

This Comic-Con thing is madness. Expensive madness. More so if you: A) manage to misplace your camera charger the morning you take off and end up delaying your trip to borrow another B) discover the con shuttle doesn't go anywhere remotely near your hotel and end up taking a cab ($20 x 2) C) find yo ... More >>

20th Century Fox pulls out of Comic-Con

As reported in this week's Comic-Con preview by yours truly, Fox was set to showcase upcoming movie releases including Aliens Vs. Predator, Babylon A.D. and Jumper. The LA Times is reporting that the studio decided their footage "wasn't ready." JoBlo.com writes that this may be the result of a dis ... More >>

The Big Con

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

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

The Forerunners of Commie Girl

OnDVD: Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition

Fakes On a Plane

Conspiracy buffs craft their own online WTC movies

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

O, Brilliant, Fatty Wonder! Bacon-wrapped hot dogs at the Santa Ana Farmers Market

Typhoon in a Teacup

Asian action movies dont get much less significant than this one.

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping todays kiddie-movie landscape

This Newsrack Will Self- Destruct in Five Seconds...

Color us crazy, but we'd have thought someone would have raised an ethical concern or three after the Los Angeles County Sheriff's arson squad blew up an LA Times newsrack in Santa Clarita on Friday. The concern we refer to is not whether deputies were under orders from the Sheriff Lee Baca to get b ... More >>

Environment and Sports

Environment & Sports

Hustle & Toboggan

In the 2005 summer movie season, slow but steady wins the race

Roddenberry: The Next Generation

Gene Roddenberrys son Rod on his upcoming documentary, his dad and Trekkie pedophiles

The Light Fantastic

Mad Hot Ballroom steps up

Attack of the Puppet People

How reviewers misread Team America, the years most potent political satire

Totally Groesbeck

The artist whose vision unchained DeMille

How Neatly Spreads His Claws

The 18th annual Sundance Film Festival

She Shtups to Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

Clip and Save

The year in great movies

Wrestling Tryouts

Namesnakes

Whos been sleeping in your Web domain?

Hey, Mom, Im a Rock Star

On tour with a wildly famous Orange County band

Uneasy Alliance

Official sites reluctantly let fan pages thrive