My God! Look over there on the sound stage! | Photo courtesy of Disney [Interested in writing about films and the film business for LAist? Email us here.] Having seen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Sunday (review coming tomorrow), a film like National Treasure: Book of Secrets looks awfully pedestrian. Its two greatest assets--Helen Mirren and Diane Kruger--are woefully underused and the big treasure reveal at the end is......

Question: How many women being punched in the face does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: Nicolas Cage. If you're like me, by the time you get to the part where Nic Cage's head is forced into a basket of bees, you'll be rooting for the insects.......

Peter Boyle (favorite role: Chief Orman in the Nic Cage/SJP masterpiece Honeymoon in Vegas) died last night in New York after suffering from heart disease and a bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma. Boyle, who rose to fame as Gene Wilder’s dancing protégé in Young Frankenstein, spent the better part of the last decade starring along side Ray Romano in Everybody Loves Raymond. He was a Philly-born, LA-working, NY-living comic curmudgeon whose presence on......

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