Drive (movie)

Cannes 2013: Ryan Gosling, Croisette superstar?

2013-05-21 06:30:00

CANNES, France -- One of the biggest stars on the Croisette this year isn't even on the Croisette. The question is: Will he be? Ryan Gosling is to premiere his new movie, the Nicolas Refn Thai revenge drama "Only God Forgives," at the Cannes Film...

Cannes 2013: The musical side of the Coens' 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

2013-05-19 13:53:00

CANNES, France -- In close to three decades of filmmaking, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have shared a lot of looks. But with "Inside Llewyn Davis," which had its� premiere in Festival de Cannes competition Sunday, one particular glance said it all. "At...

Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird

2013-05-16 12:39:00

CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...

Los Angeles Film Festival 2013: Film Independent unveils lineup

2013-05-01 10:00:00

"Only God Forgives," Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to "Drive", will have its North American premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival next month. Starring Ryan Gosling as an American expat living in Bangkok, Thailand, the film joins the critically...

Cannes 2013: Coen brothers, Alexander Payne bound for film festival

2013-04-18 04:29:00

The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...

Festivals celebrate Indian, Iranian and French cinema

2013-04-11 06:00:00

International cinema takes the spotlight with the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles continuing at the ArcLight Hollywood multiplex, the UCLA Film and Television Archive's celebration of Iranian cinema opening Saturday at the Billy Wilder Theater,...

'Spring Breakers' is one big disorienting party

2013-03-08 08:00:00

It remains to be seen whether "Spring Breakers" turns out to be one of the movies of the year, but it is without question a movie of its moment. It has been a source of intense interest since shooting first started around St. Pete Beach in Florida last...

The tuxedo takes a bow

2012-12-09 00:00:00

For holiday parties, today's sophisticated man can take a cue from runways and red carpets by choosing tuxedos for formal occasions or components thereof for more casual events. Fashion designers, obsessed as they are these days with all manner of...

Hockey pro Russ Courtnall passes off to pop star Britney Spears

2012-12-09 00:00:00

Pop star and singing competition judge Britney Spears has bought the Thousand Oaks home of former professional hockey player Russ Courtnall and his wife, actress Paris Vaughan. The property came on the market in August at $8.5 million and was withdrawn...

Fragrance: Sweet success

2012-09-02 00:00:00

In 1954, when Marilyn Monroe was asked what she wore in bed, she famously replied, "Why, Chanel No. 5, of course." And sales of the perfume skyrocketed. That was a free endorsement, back when there was such a thing. Hollywood and the fragrance industry...

'How to Catch a Monster': Ryan Gosling to make directorial debut

2012-08-29 11:51:00

Hey girl, it turns out that Ryan Gosling really may be able to do it all. The Oscar-nominated actor who has broken up street fights and saved pedestrians from oncoming traffic is now set to direct his first feature film, "How to Catch a Monster." The...

The greatest L.A. movies? We have 140, and shrinking...

2011-12-04 06:00:00

Nick Prevas is truly an "artist of all trades." The 30-year-old Charles Village resident writes and directs films, works on graphic design projects, plays guitar and sings in the band White Lodge. He even handles communications and media for the American Visionary Arts Museum.

2012-04-26 00:00:00

A year-end critical darling and one of the most talked-about movies from last fall, this stylish movie ultimately underwhelms on the small screen.

2012-04-13 15:39:43

"Drive" (winner) "Fast Five" "Hanna" "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" "Super 8"

2012-01-12 18:56:05