It's too bad that Ali Larter's power in Heroes isn't the ability to seduce Hayden Panettiere. Is Blades of Glory the last funny Will Ferrell movie? His act is getting ripe. Make Anchorman 2 quickly, damn it! Year of the Dog was one of the most depressing movies in years. Everyone says I should watch Friday Night Lights. Is it better than Greek? How could it be? Jamie Kennedy may have finally reached the......

Grindhouse Monday and Tuesday it's The Muthers, a combination blaxploitation and women-in-prison flick that stars Janine Bell and Rosanne Katon as a pirate duo who must rescue Bells sister from the private jail of an evil coffee plantation owner, followed by Fight for Your Life, a revenge thriller about a pacifist black minister whose family is taken hostage and tortured by a trio of convicts, until he finally snaps and wreaks his vengeance. Wednesday and......

1. Disturbia - $23 million - Paramount/Dreamworks 2. Blades of Glory - $14.1 million - Paramount/Dreamworks 3. Meet the Robinsons - $12 million - Disney 4. Perfect Stranger - $11 million - Sony/Columbia 5. Are We Done Yet? - $9.2 million - Sony/Columbia 6. Pathfinder - $4.8 million - Fox 7. Wild Hogs - $4.6 million - Buena Vista 8. The Reaping - $4.5 million - Warner Bros. 9. 300 - $4.3 million -......

Hair High - The latest film from animator Bill Plympton is a gothic high-school comedy. When Spud, the new kid in town, accidentally offends Cherri and Rod, the high school power couple, he is forced to become Cheri's slave, and eventually Spud and Cheri fall for each other. They secretly decide to attend to the prom together, but Rod forces their car off the road and they sink to the bottom of the lake......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In......

Year of the Dog's Laura Dern and Molly Shannon with writer/director Mike White OK, so we were invited to the Paramount lot -- but wouldn't it be more dramatic if we crashed it? Could additional drama even be necessary at the premiere of a movie about relationships, work, death, and dogs, with a tagline begging the question: "Has the world left you a stray?" Year of the Dog hits theaters next Friday, the 13th.......

If it seems like we're doing a lot of contests right now it's because we are. And before we bust with more of our new contests, let's give a shout out to some who won last week. LAist would like to congratulate Adam for winning the Name the Year of the Dog contest. He chose "Pencil" which also happens to be the name of the dog in the film. Not the most creative but......

- The Name the Year of the Dog contest ends at 4:20pm today, so to enter the contest where you could win a pair of tickets to the new Molly Shannon animal lovin movie, go name that pooch! - The Win the Fall Out Boy tickets at the Forum contest ends on Friday, so head over to that post and tell us why you love the band and you might get to see FOB......

We're about to see the new Molly Shannon movie and we're very excited because a) its gonna be free and b) we miss Molly Shannon. We know nothing about this film except it was written by the dude who brought us School of Rock and The Good Girl. And judging from the web site, it looks like it's about dogs. Fine. We'd like to share this excitement with you and the nice people from......

Body Count - Murder 4 Hire (Escapi) DMX - Year of the Dog, Again (Columbia) Five for Fighting - Two Lights (Columbia) FM Static - Critically Ashamed (Tooth & Nail) G. Love - Lemonade (enhanced; Brushfire) Gasoline Heart - You Know Who You Are (Mono Vs. Stereo) Kill Hannah - Until There's Nothing Left of Us (Atlantic) Mars Lasar - Yosemite, Valley of the Giants (Gemini Sun) John McLaughlin - Industrial Zen (Verve) Monty......

This weekend LA welcomed the Year of the Dog with Chinatown's annual Golden Dragon Parade. We are sad that we missed it, but happy that talented photographer Wojtek Gil was there to get the picture (well, technically, 34 pictures). He also has a photoblog that we think has a good chance of becoming habit-forming.......

It's the official Chinese New Year, Year of the Dog, 4704. The internets tell us that new year is the most festive of Chinese festivals, and the photos on this international msn site bear that out: poodles with the fur on their ears dyed yellow and green, parades and more fun. Plus, the translations are excellent: Dogs dress the traditional New Year suit, pose during the performance from the dog circus of Japan. Gung......