Inception (movie)

Review: 'Scary Movie V' moves between frenzied and stoned

2013-04-12 17:47:00

Poor Charlie Sheen! In the opening of "Scary Movie V," no sooner does he bed Lindsay Lohan — both barely convincing playing themselves — than a ghost kills him and kidnaps his three kids. (Legal troubles aside, Lohan is fine.) Three months...

Review: 'Trance,' messy and deceptive, is no work of art

2013-04-04 16:45:00

Don't look to be entranced by "Trance." It starts out like a house afire, but by the time it's over we're the ones feeling burned. A slick heist tale with more twists than sense, this is one movie that ends up outsmarting itself. Both the good and the...

Location scouts upset again over green bike lane in downtown L.A.

2013-03-30 06:00:00

Location scouts are once again red-faced over the bright green bicycle lane in downtown Los Angeles. City officials painted a 1.5-mile strip of Spring Street neon green in 2011 for a bike lane as part of larger effort pushed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa...

Christopher Nolan's time-travel film 'Interstellar' to bow in 2014

2013-03-08 09:47:00

Hey, Christopher Nolan fans: You only have to wait another year and a half to see your favorite director's next venture. Co-distributors Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Friday that the "The Dark Knight Rises" director's new film,...

'Godzilla' remake: Producers sue Legendary for tens of millions

2013-01-17 14:56:00

"Godzilla" is not scheduled to set foot in the U.S. for another two years, but things are already getting ugly. Legendary Pictures, the film finance and production company behind "Inception" and "The Hangover," has been sued by a trio of prominent...

'Avengers,' 'Ted' among contenders for most overrated movie of '12

2012-12-27 05:00:00

The year that was brought a number of hype-filled hits. Some of that hoopla was deserved. Plenty of it wasn’t. So which movies received the most undue recognition? According to an informal survey around the L.A. Times newsroom, there are several...

'Rust and Bone's' Marion Cotillard dives head-first into roles

2012-12-20 07:00:00

She's described by director Jacques Audiard as "a diver," someone who "throws herself into a role head first." So it's believable that the very first scene Marion Cotillard shot for "Rust and Bone" was the most harrowing one, in which she awakes in a...

'Expendables 2' could be No. 1 again on slow box office weekend

2012-08-23 12:08:00

With the end of summer rapidly approaching, it seems there aren't many people who want to spend their final no school or work days�at the movie theater. The four new pictures hitting multiplexes this weekend aren't�generating much interest among...

Review: 'The Dark Knight Rises' more than shines, and on many levels

2012-07-18 10:20:00

Potent, persuasive and hypnotic, "The Dark Knight Rises"has us at its mercy. A disturbing experience we live through as much as a film we watch, this dazzling conclusion to director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is more than an exceptional...

Legendary Pictures to produce movies in China through joint venture

2011-06-10 00:00:00

In the last few years China has emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing movie markets, but government restrictions have limited the ability of American studios to export their films there. Now a top Hollywood finance and production company is...

Why renters and pirates watch such different movies

2011-10-31 16:36:58

DVD pirates running rampant in China

2011-03-22 00:00:00

Poking around a pirate DVD shop down the block from the Apple Store in central Beijing one recent afternoon on her lunch break, Zhou Xin eyed the floor-to-ceiling selection of Oscar-nominated films, indie flicks and B-movies such as "Nude Nuns With Big...

Exaggerated references to horror movies�primarily "Paranormal Activity," this time around�and other films that are totally unrelated including "Inception" and "Black Swan.

2013-01-04 12:47:00

Before his critically acclaimed work as director of the "Dark Knight" series and "Inception," director Christopher Nolan made his feature debut with the $5,000-budget "Following," now released on DVD. Actor Jeremy Theobald stars as The Young man.

2012-12-31 15:14:00

You've had a fantastic career with a lot of memorable parts. How much interest do you have in doing a romantic comedy or something that would totally lighten things up? I was also thinking of your "Inception" co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, who has done almost exclusively serious films recently.

2012-07-24 08:55:00