“Welcome to violence, the word and the act”. Those are the opening words from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the Russ Meyer cinematic ode to cool screening tonight at the Vista in Hollywood. Starring the voluptuous badass Tura Satana as Varla, FPKK is the story of 3 drag racin’ go-go dancers looking for kicks & trouble when they con their way onto an old man’s desert property after a day of murder & kidnapping. The......

Zombie Joe's Underground takes on "The Raven" and other Poe stories tonight. / Photo by Ctd 2005 via flickr. FILM The Silent Movie Theatre concludes its “Love Hurts” series with the noir-ish tearjerker Brief Enounter. Directed by David Lean, Brief Encounter deals with an illicit affair between a housewife and a married doctor. A train station serves as a prominent backdrop for their weekly trysts. 8 pm // Silent Movie Theatre // 611 N.......

Tonight at 8pm: The Cinefamily Screening Series wraps up their stunt month with a rare screening of "The Stunt Man," and some special guests. From Cinefamily:In filming The Stunt Man, the quintessential movie about Hollywood's invisible heroes, Richard Rush hired many of the top men in the field, making the set a virtual symposium of daredevil talents. We decided what better way to honor these daredevils than by reuniting as many of them as we......

Pamela Des Barres, of Frank Zappa's girl group, The GTOs, gained national attention with her first memoir, I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie. This best-seller was followed by Take Another Little Piece of My heart: A Groupie Grows Up and Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon. Des Barres also teaches writing classes, performs wedding ceremonies, and according to her website, can even be hired out for the weekend as a (purely platonic)......

At The Echo, see legendary Angeleno Mike Watt performing with The Secondmen on their El Mar Cura Todo Tour in support of their latests album, The Secondman's Middle Stand. Doors open at 9:00 PM and tickets are $10. [18+] Doors open at 7:00 PM for The Hives' performance at The Wiltern with The Bronx and The Deadly Snakes. Tickets are $20. At the Egyptian Theatre, celebrate the films of Russ Meyer with a double......

Russ Meyer, notorious sexploitation filmmaker and breastman, is dead. Noted for soft-core classics like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Vixen, Meyer, 82, died in his Hollywood Hills home from complications due to pneumonia. Today's Los Angeles Times obit notes that Meyer was "something of a one-man studio, Meyer produced, directed, financed, wrote, edited and shot 23 tantalizing but teasing films that pioneered a genre of skinflicks with much violence and large-busted women but little......