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Pencil This In: New Filmmakers Night, Jeff Garlin Reads, Nightmare Curators Chat, L'Arpeggiata Debuts

Pencil This In: New Filmmakers Night, Jeff Garlin Reads, Nightmare Curators Chat, L'Arpeggiata Debuts

The New Filmmakers Los Angeles will screen 14 short films tonight and you'd be crazy to miss it. The last film of the night is our top pick: show your bike-friendly love by attending the screening of Riding Bikes with the Dutch at Sunset Gower Studios. The film follows a Long Beach family as they travel to Amsterdam to experience how the Dutch use bikes in their everyday life. Get your livable community on starting at 9:15 p.m. Tickets for Riding Bikes with Dutch are $5. more ›

DVD Tuesday: Beware of Shutter Island!

       

Very likely I'm in the minority opinion on this subject, but I think it's high time that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio stopped working together. From my perspective, it's been diminishing returns since The Aviator. Shutter Island left me cold. Seven seasons in and Curb Your Enthusiasm has last none of its cruel charm for me. This most recent season was the best since the year the entire show was a meta-gloss for The Producers. I'll say it: I enjoy John Travolta when he plays a bad-ass. I know it goes against his occasionally, er, fey personality but the guy is just dynamite when he's beating people up. Thank God, Caddyshack is finally on blu-ray. Here's why. They should have bitten the bullet and hired Dirk Benedict for the new A-Team movie. more ›

This Month in Comedy

This Month in Comedy

Comedy-rich LA has a lot to choose from. Here are some highlights for the month of May: more ›

DVD Tuesday: Hollywood's Darling Arrives

DVD Tuesday: Hollywood's Darling Arrives

In ten years, we'll remember this movie for introducing Olivia Thirlby | Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight more ›

This Month in Comedy

This Month in Comedy

Comedy-rich LA has a lot to choose from. Here are some highlights for the month of April: more ›

TV Junkie: Monday Night Picks - Beware the Onslaught of New Shows

TV Junkie: Monday Night Picks - Beware the Onslaught of New Shows

8-11pm CBS - All new episodes of: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory (series premiere!), Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami 8:00pm The War PBS - I think PBS completely effed this up by taking this great series head-to-head against a week of season and series premieres on the networks and cable. They should have shown it last week or the week before where there wasn't jack-shit... more ›

TV Junkie: Thursday Night Picks - IASIP

TV Junkie: Thursday Night Picks - IASIP

The season 3 premiere of FX's It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is the pick of the night. This is arguably Danny DeVito's best work since L.A. Confidential and his best comedy work in almost 20 years. While it's true that since it's cable the cast can say "shit" and "asshole" but that's not a gimmick the show relies on too much. What the show does follow is what made Seinfeld a success - it's a... more ›

Movie Review: <i>I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With</i>

Movie Review: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

Though its title suggests exceedingly humble aspirations, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With really is an unexpected little gem. Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin writes, directs, produces and stars (whew!) as the Marty-esque James, an overweight, under-employed, 39 year-old actor who still lives with his mother. His biggest concerns in life appear to be extolling the virtues of rice pudding to a convenience store clerk, keeping a great parking space near Wrigley Field... more ›

LA Film Fest: Day 5

LA Film Fest: Day 5

Now that the frenzied first weekend is over, it should be much easier going at the L.A. Film Festival in terms of actually getting to see a movie. Virtually every film playing today shows either standby availability or tickets available at the door. Free events, unfortunately, are in short supply. Of course, there's the daily Bands on Broxton at noon and 7 p.m. at the Festival Promenade, but the only other free event is the Director Lunch Talk at 12:30 p.m. at the Target Red Room. Los Angeles Times entertainment writer John Horn will be speaking with Jeffrey Blitz, director of Rocket Science (at this year's LAFF) and the great spelling bee documentary from a few year's back, Spellbound. more ›

Campus Ladies Expelled From Oxygen After Sophomore Year

Campus Ladies Expelled From Oxygen After Sophomore Year

Say goodbye to Joan Beamin and Barri Martin. After two seasons the genius programming execs at Oxygen have decided to cancel their best show (read: their only watchable show), Campus Ladies. more ›

Events This Week: Get Fired, Go Dance

Events This Week: Get Fired, Go Dance

Gretchen Mol plays Bettie Page in the upcoming movie, The Notorious Bettie Page that opens April 14. Join Mol and director Mary Harron at Reel Talk with Stephen Farber at the Wadsworth Theatre in Brentwood. more ›

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