UPDATE: Damn it, it's confirmed: A press release issued by the actor's spokesperson Wednesday said: “Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. Patrick’s physician Dr. George Fisher states The Good news? ‘Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far. All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We......

What do Donnie Darko and Me & You & Everyone We Know have in common, other than being rad cult movies? Composer Michael Andrews. You can hear him on KCRW this morning at the usual 11:00 a.m. MBE live band slot. You can also see him live at Amoeba Records on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Keep an eye on Andrews as he's working on more film projects (Cohen Bros., etc) and a performance......

Decapitated antiheroes, suicide bombers and 12-year-old soldiers round out this weekend's indie and limited release picks. A History of Violence - Drama starring Viggo Mortensen, directed by David Cronenberg. In this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, Cronenberg explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. [trailer | local showtimes] Capote - Drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by Bennett Miller. Truman Capote believed fact......

In a city with nicknames such as "Hollyweird" and "La-La Land," strange occurrences are pretty much par for the course. Nonetheless, this story about a large chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of a Fontana house and into a chair where minutes earlier a man had been sitting was spooky. Who would worry about getting crushed by ice while sitting in a pink chair watching television indoors in the middle of summer?......

Sometimes we hate Hollywood endings. We knew nothing of Domino Harvey before we saw the very cool trailer (the best trailer we've seen this year) for Domino before Kung Fu Hustle in the spring. Kiera Knightley, who impressed us in The Jacket, was intoxicating as this former model now bounty hunter dominating what appeared to be this darkly comic true story flick written by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly. Now, the real Domino Harvey is......