The Spirit (movie)

In the Chicago of the 1870s, the fashionable drawing rooms of Prairie Avenue were frequently host to spiritualists, mediums and charlatans, often folks playing all three of those roles at once. With lowered gas lights and a bit of hocus-pocus and table...

Writer-director Jeff Nicols' apocalyptic drama "Take Shelter" and the black-and-white silent film "The Artist" emerged as top contenders for Film Independent's 2012 Spirit Awards Tuesday morning, earning five nominations each. Both films were nominated in...

Viral videos go hand-in-hand with fragrance and fashion launches these days. But Gucci is trying a new promotional tack -- building suspense for a full-length video commercial with, well, another video. The Italian fashion house has just released an...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 5 – 11 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here A DRY HEAT: Our hero hooks up with the Bushmen of......

Some artists play music to clear their heads. Others go for a walk. Marnie Weber says she likes to walk to her local cemetery: the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena, not far from her studio. That's where she......

Segerstrom Center for the Arts announces ambitious 25th anniversary season...

Perhaps “The Green Hornet” is director Michel Gondry's mocking wink at the masked heroes-obsessed Hollywoodand the fanboys who made it that way. A violent, clumsy, jokey, badly-plotted and miscast mess, “Hornet” almost makes sense,...

Liesl Bradner checks in with a report about the guerrilla ad campaign for the "Fight Club" anniversary edition. One of the many memorable lines in David Fincher???s startling and controversial "Fight Club," which celebrates its 10th anniversary this fall:...

One of my favorite people in Hollywood is Jaime King, the actress who has built quite the fanboy resume with roles in "Sin City," "My Bloody Valentine," "The Spirit," "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" series and the film "Fanboys" (which......

The U2 show at the Rose Bowl may have been billed as the concert of the century but this is also the "decade of the fanboy" and I couldn't help but notice some overlap between the massive music event and......

This is a longer version of my cover story in this upcoming Sunday Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. -- G.B. There were inscriptions written above the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi, and......