In ten years, we'll remember this movie for introducing Olivia Thirlby | Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Now that all the hubbub has subsided, can we all agree that Juno was really just an okay movie and that there's no way Ellen Page should ever have been nominated for an Oscar? All I know is that whenever Rainn Wilson or Olivia Thirlby were on-screen I paid zero attention to the dour and monotone Page.......

My first memory of Dutton's is of the one in the valley, hot on those unairconditioned summer afternoons, the faintly sour smell of the paper. It was crowded, a little uncomfortable, and yet it was a place that was full of treasures. A place where a kid could wander -- completely by accident, into the Literature section and discover something magical. After my family moved to the Westside in the early nineties, Dutton's became a......

Many LAist staffers, contributors and readers were deeply troubled by the news of Dutton's closure. We all have a favorite memory of Dutton's - a particular book we discovered there, an admired author we met at a reading, a certain afternoon spent browsing. We'd like to honor the many unique memories of Dutton's that we all share with a series of posts about what Dutton's meant to us and what it meant to you. Our......

After debuting last week on the Internet, Jackass 2.5 is coming to DVD tomorrow. I'll be watching, laughing and drinking--in that order. If you missed Eastern Promises in theaters, pick it up immediately. Viggo has never been better. I enjoyed The Kingdom, but I think I would have preferred the original ending (spoiler warning!). The Heartbreak Kid was funnier than critics gave it credit for and had the best last line of any movie......

Though it opens Wednesday, I'm including The Darjeeling Limited in this guide because Wes Anderson is a director whose films you just automatically have to see and the more advance warning, the better. His latest jewel box follows three brothers (Wilson, Brody, Schwartzman) who decide to travel together across India in an effort to mend the rift that has grown between them all. Expect fantastical plot twists and plenty of whimsy. Though many critics......

Holy jeebus my eyeballs are gonna fall out. There's about a 1/2 dozen series premieres and a 1/2 dozen season premieres tonight. Unfortnately the only new thing calling my name is the Bionic Woman (9:00pm NBC) but that's based on junior high school fantasies and not what I've seen so far of this show. Prime time offers such an overabundance of mediocrity I'm tempted to head off to TCM at 8:00pm and watch the......

What better way to make flex fuel vehicles and E85 (corn-based ethanol) more hip than by taking several YouTube clips, stirring in some Facebook, MySpace, a Napoleon Dynamite-esque aesthetic and, finally, for good measure a good dollop of Ben Affleck dressed in a corn suit (seriously, just watch it)? Narrated by Phin (who looks suspiciously like a certain silent protagonist), this series of videos, dubbed "Clean My Ride, Flex My Fuel," aims to raise......

A Word or 80: Spent the weekend in Canada, my first visit, in the province of Quebec to be exact. I found the radio programming to be innovative and excellent but television sucked. I'm sure there's some good programmes (please give me cred for the spelling) out there but in a first glance/overview kind of perspective it was wanting. Dear Canuck friends, don't take it personally, American TV sucks for the most part as......

In case you missed it, the Angels are on one heck of a tear, going 19-6 so far in July. Prior to this one, the Angels hadn't posted a winning decade once in its history, so you might be surprised to learn that even if they close out tonight's game against the A's with a win and finish 20-6, they still wouldn't break the team record for the best month in club history. That......

Please forgive us this indulgent Hollywood moment, but hot off the wires is the news that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck (AKA Bennifer Part deux) welcomed a new papparazzi-attracting accesory to their fold (AKA a baby girl) in a Los Angeles hospital sometime between last night and this morning. The heir apparent to the couple's legacy of bad movies, hot bods, love affairs gone awry and cancelled television dramas may very well have a......

Let’s be honest. The New Year really couldn’t start until Mr. Blackwell crawled out of his hole and brought us his sartorial critique of Hollywood in the form of his 45th Annual Worst Dressed Women List. Or, as we here at LAist like to call it, the 45th Annual “Who the Hell is this Mr. Blackwell Guy Anyway?” List. This year, the great and noble Mr. Blackwell (as far as we know, he has......

We've just learned, via Eonline, that In Touch magazine's spreading the story that Ben Affleck bummed a twenty off a papparazzo recently to buy a fruit smoothie in girlfriend Jennifer Garner's Brentwood neighborhood. In Touch breathlessley recounts, "Ben took the money, went into the store and left," says the photog, who was reportedly happy to let Affleck keep the change." Geez, what a novel way to panhandle. Let's all try it the next time......

NBC4 reports today that Alias' star Jennifer Garner has surprisingly become infected with some kind of "viral infection" just as she was set to do publicity for the upcoming stinker Elektra. The viral infection, which has caused strange-colored excretions to flow forth from her upper extremities are, as NBC4 points out, not typical for an actress who "normally looks pretty damn hot." However, other Hollywood insiders point out that the sudden "viral infection" may......