Werner Herzog

Adam Mansbach's 'Rage is Back' dips into the graffiti life

2013-02-01 11:40:00

-------------------- Rage is Back A Novel Adam Mansbach Viking: 304 pp., $26.95 -------------------- "I always had this sense that there was a great American graffiti novel waiting to be written," Adam Mansbach says. Best known as the author of...

Review: 'Jack Reacher' is too much of a stretch for Tom Cruise

2012-12-20 12:22:00

In "Jack Reacher," the new thriller starring Tom Cruise, the crime that draws the film's reclusive ex-Army investigator out of the shadows — a sniper gunning down people on a city street — couldn't have been a worse one to land in theaters...

'Searching for Sugar Man' wins top honors at IDA Awards

2012-12-07 22:30:00

Malik Bendjelloul's� "Searching for Sugar Man" won the Best Feature Award at the International Documentary Assn.'s 2012 IDA Documentary Awards at the Directors Guild of America on Friday evening. The acclaimed chronicle about Sixto Rodriguez, a� U.S....

'Jack Reacher' comes up short, movie critics say

2012-12-21 15:51:00

When it comes to kicking butt, Tom Cruise is an old hand. He's done it as an ace pilot in "Top Gun," a soldier-turned-samurai in "The Last Samurai," a globe-trotting super-spy in the "Mission: Impossible" movies, a futuristic cop in "Minority Report"...

TV This Week: Dec. 23 - 29: 'A Christmas Story' on TBS

2012-12-21 12:00:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 23 - 29 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SUNDAY Enduring as the Alps, comforting as hot cocoa, and more sing-along-able than any Broadway musical before or since, it'...

Jack Black and Richard Linklater on 'Bernie,' crafts and gospel

2012-11-28 16:00:00

Producer Scott Rudin set up Jack Black and Richard Linklater nearly a decade ago for "School of Rock," with Rudin persuading the indie filmmaker to tackle the commercial comedy. Black and Linklater reunited this year for "Bernie," a disquieting, dark...

Critic's Notebook: Essays tiptoe up to grab us unawares

2012-06-10 00:00:00

Essays sneak up on us. They are — or often feel — accidental: the record of a writer wrestling with an idea, an observation, a slice of experience, of a writer figuring it out. They have a conditional quality, as if they could go in any...

Germany's mysterious 'feral child' is neither

2012-06-15 16:41:23

L.A. Critics name 'Descendants' best film, laud 'Tree of Life' too

2011-12-11 16:36:40

L.A. Film Critics choose best actor, best actress winners

2011-12-11 16:36:41

Around Town: 'Mad, Mad World' and other comedy classics

2011-12-29 21:37:53

Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week

2012-01-04 16:37:30

(out of four) What we said: "Werner Herzog's quirky, disturbing look at capital punishment Matt Pais

2013-04-12 14:21:00

Writer Christopher McQuarrie (who also wrote "The Usual Suspects") reunites with his "Valkyrie" star Tom Cruise and directs this take on Lee Child's relentless cop. The trailer at times echoes "Drive," taken to a much more action-hero type of place. The most notable thing about this?

2012-08-31 08:37:00

Into the Abyss" puts it, could neither be simpler nor larger: "How're you gonna live your dash?" Werner Herzog's new documentary explores a Texas triple homicide and asks: What good is the death penalty, anyway?

2011-11-09 10:07:47