'You can get an Academy Award for pretending to be a stunt guy but you can’t get an Academy Award for actually being one.”

Josh Rottenberg with a look at how THE FALL GUY may galvanize the movement for an Academy Award for stunts.
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Our Josh Rottenberg sat down with director David Leitch, producer Kelly McCormick and the stunt teams of the enormously fun THE FALL GUY and got details on the status of an Oscar for stunts — which is closer to happening than you may think. latimes.com/entertainment-…

I'll be moderating tonight's Q&A with Kirsten Johnson following CAMERAPERSON at the Aero. The movie is beautiful all on its own but also brings up all sorts of questions about documentary filmmaking & I can't wait to talk about it.

What 'Civil War' gets right and wrong about photojournalism, according to a Pulitzer Prize winner latimes.com/entertainment-…

'I’m going to be very honest — watching him play that role, I was like, ‘Dang, my baby is crushing this role.’'
Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny & Alex Garland on how the deeply disturbing scene with Jesse Plemons came together in CIVIL WAR
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Love the directness of Bilge Ebiri on CIVIL WAR, which he found Kubrickian in parts and “more pointed than spineless” in not spelling out politics or taking a side: “That sounds like it would be the worst movie ever made.” vulture.com/article/review…

Rigorous piece by Scott Tobias on Allen’s artistic decline into inconsequence, a compartmentalization that may be a function of age, laziness or intent.

What Joan Didion's broken Hollywood can teach us about our own latimes.com/entertainment-…

'It’s been said that #Hollywood is more an idea than a place, and no task punctuates the notion quite like asking people to choose the best Hollywood book of all time...' In anticipation of LA Times Festival of Books - a must-read from all-star lineup of writers: latimes.com/entertainment-…

Lot of fun LA-centric stuff today: At Los Angeles Festival of Movies Kim Gordon and Rachel Kushner chatted about key Los Angeles movies like MODEL SHOP, CAR WASH and BODY DOUBLE. Tonight Franco Rossi’s ultra-rare SMOG (1962) plays at the UCLA Festival of Preservation.

Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny came together to talk to Los Angeles Times about CIVIL WAR, a stunning movie about photojournalists chronicling a violently torn America. It could happen here. Mark Olsen has the story: latimes.com/entertainment-…

Silent films believed lost, crazy noirs from Argentina, a classic Richard Pryor comedy TV special: Here's Kenneth Turan on the highlights of this weekend's 2024 UCLA Festival of Preservation. latimes.com/entertainment-…