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What’s this now? A legitimately laid-back neighborhood bar… on the Sunset Strip? If you have trouble believing it—we sure did—Bar Next Door will convert any skeptics.…

Sonny’s tends to elicit strong reactions, sometimes before people have a chance to taste their actual pizza. Started by two friends from New Jersey, this Hollywood…

Onstage in a red — though not raspberry — beret, a bearded John Travolta introduced the inaugural performance from punk all-stars Cretin Family for the Ramones…

George Lucas knew he needed a hook — the requisite fan service — at his new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in downtown Los Angeles. That’s…

Start with the wry humor of In Bruges’ fractious hitmen, out of their natural element in a picturesque tourist destination, then stir in the melancholic island setting…

Nothing if not original, Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard casts Kate and Rooney Mara as Irish sisters who speak, think and move in unison, an impressive feat of disciplined…

In the first proper scene of By Any Means, the new picture by Elegance Bratton (The Inspection), a musclebound thug (Mark Wahlberg) looms over a man…

In their gripping, Oscar-winning 2018 documentary Free Solo, husband and wife directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi examine the boggling daring of Alex Honnold, a…

At the Cannes Film Festival last year, there were not one but two genre-bending, metaphorical movies that revisited the deadly AIDS crisis of the 1980s. The…

Screened last night A review of This Little Piggy Goes to Market, Katherine Connor Duff’s provocative Dances With Films short examining online culture and objectification. By…