James Ellroy

Movie Review: Woody Harrelson Makes Rampart a Must See

Carole Mallory | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Denzel Washington, James Ellroy, Oren Movermen, Black Dahlia, Bobby Bukowski, Robin Wright, Training Day, Rampart Scandal, Lapd, Woody Harrelson, Cythia Nixon, Ice Cube, Anne Heche, Bokowski, Entertainment News

Woody Harrelson's tour de force performance in Rampart is reminiscent of Oscar winner Denzel Washington's in Training Day.

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Woody Harrelson Unplugged: Rampart's Feminist Agenda

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: James Ellroy, Rampart, Woody Harrelson, Oren Moverman, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon; Robin Wright. Sigourney Weaver. Stella Schnabel, Ben Foster, Culture News

Harrelson's testosterone-fueled performance illustrates this Maui-based actor's ferocity, playing a character very little like his green (he grows his own produce), peace-loving, pot-smoking self.

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Movie review: Rampart

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Cynthia Nixon, Oren Moverman, Oscar, Woody Harrelson, Scandal, Rampart Division, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Rodney King, Rampart Movie Review, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, The Messenger, Robin Wright, Bad Lieutenant, James Ellroy, Rampart, Anne Heche, Entertainment News

Having teamed up for the emotionally demanding The Messenger, filmmaker Oren Moverman and actor Woody Harrelson join forces again for Rampart, a seari...

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A Horrifying Satire of Hollywood Returns

Brian Joseph Davis | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Harold Hayes, James Ellroy, Esquire, Horror Movies, Brock Brower, Roger Corman, Hollywood Satire, New Journalism, National Book Awards, Books News

The Late Great Creature has been reissued and Brock Brower's hardboiled, horror-themed wit might finally find a new audience. It's at the very least found me.

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Actor Josh Hartnett Toys With Swordplay in Bunraku and Lives to Discuss It

Brad Balfour | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Pearl Harbor Movie, Black Hawk Down, Puppets, Samuel L. Jackson, Vampires, William Shakespeare, Lucky Number Slevin, Demi Moore, Western, Assassins, Woody Harrelson, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Gackt Camu, Ron Perlman, Brett Ratner, Samurai Films, Dystopia, Resurrecting the Champ, Louis Malle, Romania, Holly the Movie, Japanese Puppet Theater, Roland Joffé, Bucharest, Fantasy, Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, Bunraku, 30 Days of Night, Toronto International Film Festival, Trumpeter Chet Baker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Crime Boss, Josh Hartnett, The Faculty Movie, Ronin, Science-Fiction, Singularity Movie, French New Wave, Guy Moshe, Truffaut, Computer-Animated, Samurai, Child Trafficking, Iago, Brian DePalma, Kevin McKidd, Japan, Swordplay, Othello, Tale, Femme Fatale, Hidden Fortress, Entertainment News

Through Bunraku, an archly-stylized swordplay fantasy, Josh Hartnett returns to the genre spotlight. This computer-enhanced tale revolves around a "Man with No Name," and draws heavily on Samurai and Western tropes in an alternate-world dystopia.

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Literary Love Letters To Los Angeles

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: James Ellroy, Joan Didion, Steve Erickson, Christopher Isherwood, Charles Bukowski, The Big Sleep, Literary Love Letters, Bret Easton Ellis, Zerovlle, Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler, Books News

From Flavorwire: A while back we did a post on literary love letters to NYC, but we knew at some point we should honor the entertainment capital of...

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NY Magazine: The 20 Most Anticipated Books For The Fall

New York Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History of Love, James Ellroy, Michael Cunningham, Nicole Krauss, Tom Mccarthy, Best Books, Books, The Hours, C, Anticipated Books, Booklist, Books News

Our most anticipated fiction and nonfiction of fall. ...

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L.A. Times Festival Of Books: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate Books (PHOTOS)

Mark Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Ellroy, Buzz Aldrin, Sarah Silverman, Carol Burnett, Po Bronson, Bret Easton Ellis, Dave Eggers, Jeff Garlin, LA Times Festival of Books, Carl Reiner, Herman Wouk, Joseph Wambaugh, Colson Whitehead, T.C. Boyle, Bernadette Peters, Slidepollajax, Books News

To my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers.

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The Susan Boyle Story And Why We Love Rags-To-Riches Authors

The Millions | Tat Jana Soli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Balzac, Writers, Jacob Appel, Tolstoy, Susan Boyle, Writing, Authors, James Ellroy, Books, Richard Ford, Day Job, Books News

It has come to my attention that a favorite interview question for authors, especially debut authors, is what you did before you were a published. The...

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NYR: Fever Dreams of Your FBI

The New York Review of Books | Norman Rush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Underworld USA, Nyr, Book Reviews, Blood's a Rover, Parody, James Ellroy, Books, The New York Review of Books, Thrillers, Books News

Norman Rush The New York Review of Books Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy Knopf, 640 pp., $28.95 1. James Ellroy's astonishing creation, the Underwo...

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The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion

Kevin Smokler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, James Ellroy, Authors, Books, Susan Sontag, Zocalo, Phillip Lopate, Touring, Los Angeles, Reading, Lynn Freed, Joe Meno, Media News

Never mind TST would watch Lynn Freed read the back of a soup can. Give her 10 minutes and she'd have that soup can speaking Dutch and flirting with a bag of soda crackers. Simply one of the classiest acts in contemporary literature. Makes you feel smarter just hanging around.

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Writers Are Assholes

Dennis Perrin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Ellroy, Writers, Bruce Wagner, Books, Entertainment News

There are few hells more tormenting than hanging with other writers. We are an insecure, egocentric, petty, envious breed who enjoy spreading pain, hoping to maximize it for ourselves.

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