Sundance has announced the 2006 line-up.

It does not include MAD COWGIRL, ROMAN, or THE LOST. Alas.

Here’s an exclusive still of me in MAD COWGIRL. The scene it comes from isn’t really there any more — about a second of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it. But this is the outfit and character that I appear in in a couple of other scenes too.

Don’t tell me: I should dress normal with normal-looking hair like this all [...]

Jeffrey Wells writes: “There’s concern out there…concern bordering on distress…about what moves L.A. Times’ Calendar Entertainment editor Betsy Sharkey and senior editor Lennie Maguire are planning to make in order to cover independent films after Kevin Thomas, who’s been reviewing indie releases for the Times for eons, leaves the paper at the end of the [...]

Bill O’Reilly, saving us from godless shopping malls: “Every company in America should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. Without Christmas, most American businesses would be far less profitable”

Sound familiar?

“Jesus was born, and so I get presents/Thank you Jesus, for being born”

It’s from the South Park Christmas special’s “O Holy Night” as [...]

Fangoria says it’s so. I’m hoping the man himself will give me more of a confirmation on it — I can tell you that I’ve heard him talk about it in the past as a possibility.

Gotta love how Aint-It-Cool totally links to Fangoria on the subject, yet seems to ignore anything this site ever has [...]

Any time I’ve expressed optimism about the New Times-Village Voice merger at journalist gatherings in the past month, there’s always at least one guy trying to shoot me down by saying “Well, there’s no way the justice department will allow this after last time, etc., etc.”

We’ll have no more of that. The deal was just [...]

Warning: It’s filled with major SPOILERS, as Phil Hall basically synopsizes the entire story from beginning to end. If you don’t want too much revealed, here are some highlights:

“Gregory Hatanaka’s “Mad Cowgirl” represents the most visceral and explosive cinematic mind fuck since Stanley Kubrick tossed Keir Dullea into the psychedelic vortex. Rarely has an experimental [...]

I just added to the store the first official LYTrules hoodie, as well as an adult-size Reuben 3:16 shirt, since it’s the one people seem to ahve the most interest in.

Both can be seen and boughted here

Just saw WALK THE LINE yesterday, and find it hard to assess as a movie. I’m a Johnny Cash fan, fortunate enough to have seen him and June live shortly after the first American Recordings disc came out. But I haven’t read his autobiography, so I can’t and won’t speak to what is or isn’t [...]

L.A. Observed is reporting that L.A. Times film critic Kevin Thomas may be one of the next writers cut loose due to downsizing and face-lifting. Getting rid of the old guys seems to be the mantra — they cut lefty columist Robert Scheer and righty cartoonist Michael Ramirez primarily, I think, because they wanted younger [...]