Zero Dark Thirty (movie)

New releases: 'Upstream Color' is a complicated, lost-souls tale

2013-05-04 14:00:00

Upstream Color ERBP, $24.95; Blu-ray, $29.95 Available on VOD beginning May 7 Since opening at Sundance this year, this sci-fi-inflected indie drama has been described as "baffling," but even though it's a complicated film, its basics aren't that...

'Silver Linings Playbook' knocks 'Django Unchained' off DVD charts

2013-05-13 13:08:00

Oscar and Golden Globes darlings went head-to-head as newly arriving David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” knocked Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” off�the top sales and rental charts -- in a field...

TV review: 'Manhunt' keeps Bin Laden hunt as real as possible

2013-05-01 08:30:00

How many films about the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden can the market bear? The answer appears to be three — a bad one, a good one and now, a messy but provocative one. National Geographic Channel's docudrama "Seal Team Six" was...

TV This Week: April 28 - May 4: 'Savages' on Cinemax

2013-04-24 15:01:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SUNDAY Have scarf, will time-travel:...

Revisiting Jean-Luc Godard's 'Le Petit Soldat'

2013-04-24 19:25:00

Jean-Luc Godard made his second feature film, "Le Petit Soldat," in 1960, but it was banned until 1963 because of its tough look at the then-current French-Algerian conflict and unblinking portrayal of torture. Opening Friday at the Nuart in a new 35-...

Jean-Luc Godard's '60s classic 'Le Petit Soldat' returns at Nuart

2013-04-24 09:41:00

There is a chilling resonance in watching “Le Petit Soldat,” Jean-Luc Godard’s classic story of love and allegiance that begins a special one-week run at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles on Friday with a newly remastered print and...

The hectic schedule of rising star Seth Numrich

2013-04-18 13:40:00

Convincing a rising Broadway star to star in a small, 99-seat Los Angeles stage production can be a real casting coup. But the producers of "Slipping," now running at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, have learned that it can also create a major headache....

Harvard's Hasty Pudding Institute fetes Sony's Michael Lynton

2013-03-05 16:48:00

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Institute honored Sony Pictures Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Lynton with its first-ever “Order of the Golden Sphinx” award Monday night at Manhattan’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Lynton was singled...

'Jack the Giant Slayer' is slayed. Will 'Oz' be great and powerful?

2013-03-04 06:20:00

After the coffee. Before yet another flight back to Los Angeles. The Skinny: I've said it before and I'll say it again. AMC's "The Walking Dead" could have worked on broadcast TV. The show has very little sex and language issues, and the gore could be...

Oscars 2013: A box-office milestone for best picture nominees

2013-02-24 21:24:00

Although "Argo" took home the Oscar for best picture, it fell short against several of its competitors in another category: the domestic box office. The thriller from Warner Bros. has grossed $129.8 million through Sunday, according to Hollywood.com,...

'Jack the Giant Slayer' director faced some towering challenges

2013-02-27 05:00:00

When screenwriter Darren Lemke first proposed the idea of contemporizing the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale with CG technology, it was 2005. Tim Burton had not yet jumped into the rabbit hole with "Alice in Wonderland." Amanda Seyfried had yet to don...

Michelle Obama on the Oscars: The behind-the-scenes story

2013-02-25 20:45:00

On Feb. 14, a Hollywood delegation showed up at the White House. Motion Picture Academy President Hawk Koch, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and film mogul Harvey Weinstein had come to explore a rather important matter (for them): They wanted...

One of the most acclaimed -- and controversial -- movies of 2012 recently came to DVD, and maybe it's seeing its scenes of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on the small screen, but the idea that the film somehow defends torture doesn't, well, hold water.

2013-04-05 12:04:46

Jessica Chastain's 2012 turn as heiress Catherine Sloper was lauded on Broadway, almost as much as her onscreen "Zero Dark Thirty" role. The production was live while the Oscar-nominated actress was in the midst of awards season, making for some rushed weekends.

2013-04-01 15:04:56

Lead actress nominee Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty") arrives on the red carpet for the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday.

2013-02-24 16:22:42