Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge

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Friday, May 24

Paul McCartney and Wings went on their Wings Over the World tour from 1975-76, conquering three continents and marking McCartney's first concert appearance since the breakup of The Beatles. The concert film of the same name premiered in 1980 in an edited-down version, but now we can watch it in its full, 125-minute, digitally restored manifestation, which includes an interview with McCartney himself. Jump back in time for one of the biggest concert tours in the history of music at the Aero at 7:30 p.m. or at the Monica 4 (check laemmle.com for times).

Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise

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Friday, May 17

In 1995, audiences met Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in Before Sunrise, the story of a chance meeting on a train that turns into a night of conversation and roaming around Vienna. With only a short time together until Jesse's flight back to the States in the morning, Jesse and Céline fall in love quickly and promise to meet at the train station in six months. Their relationship continues in Before Sunset, which takes place nine years later, in Paris. Jesse, now doing a book tour for the best-selling novel he'd written based on his time in Vienna, spies Céline at the bookstore. Once again, the two have until Jesse's flight to talk, catching one another up on their lives and discovering their mutual dissatisfaction with their current relationships.

Galaxy Quest

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Friday, May 10

The second annual touring Czech That Film Festival makes a pit stop at Los Angeles, bringing seven films over five days between today and June 3. Starting off the festival is writer-director Zdenek Jiráský with his first feature, Flower Buds, at the Billy Wilder Theater. Preceded by an opening reception at 7:30 p.m., this winner of four Czech Lions (their version of the Oscar) sees the gradual deterioration of the Hrdina family as they cope -- comedically -- with the bleak reality of their small-town life. A Q&A with Jiráský will follow the screening.

In Hollywood, the Linwood Dunn Theater hosts The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films, showing previously neglected movies that have been revived for this two-day event. The series opens with Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke's 1967 documentary about a gay African-American houseboy in New York, at 8 p.m.

At midnight, "Never give up, never surrender!" Galaxy Quest, the Star Trek parody that reached cult-classic status, screens at the Vista Theatre. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman play stars of a once-popular TV show who get caught in a case of truth being stranger than fiction when they encounter real aliens at a fan convention.

Coraline

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Friday, May 3

On Friday, Aisha Tyler (The Talk) and Rob Schneider will host the 14th annual Golden Trailer Awards at the Saban Theater; the pre-party  starts at 6:30 p.m. Don your cocktail-party attire for a night that honors those who have the power to make crappy movies look amazing: the movie trailer makers. With 16 categories, including Best Summer 2013 Blockbuster Trailer (we're rooting for Man of Steel), the award show will be a breezy 90 minutes, with a post-party afterward. Tickets are $135 for general admission, but if you go with a group, you get a slightly discounted price.

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

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Friday, April 26

From Japanese director Shunji Iwai comes Vampire, a film about a teacher (Kevin Zegers -- a long way from his Air Bud days) who seduces his suicidal female students prior to draining them of their blood. Iwai will be at the Aero is showcasing a more innocent repertoire with the inaugural Los Angeles Children's Film Festival. Spanning two weekends, it kicks off at 7:30 p.m. with the L.A. premiere of A Letter to Momo, a Japanese animated movie about an 11-year-old who discovers three goblins in her new home.

Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in Wayne's World

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Saturday, April 20

The Getty Center launches its two-weekend In Tokyo series at the Harold M. Williams Auditorium Saturday at 4 p.m. with Mr. Thank You, which follows a bus ride from the rural countryside to Tokyo. It's from director Hiroshi Shimizu, known as Japan's Jean Renoir. The title comes from the driver's nickname, referring to what he says to pedestrians who step out of the way of his bus. Admission is free with a required reservation (up to 4 per person) at getty.edu.

The Sandlot

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Friday, April 12

Starting at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Independent is Movies and Music: Pavilion and Sam Prekop. Coming from the South by Southwest film festival's Emerging Visions category is Pavilion, a part-documentary, part-autobiographical film from Tim Sutton that gives an inside look into the lives of teenagers, told with minimal dialogue. On the surface, it's a tale of Max as he moves to suburban Arizona to live with his father. But deep down, it's a meditation on the ephemeral experience of youth. Afterward, there will be a live show from Sam Prekop, who provided the soundtrack.

Taking the warning "beware of dog" to a whole new level is the most famous 300-pound English mastiff in film: "The Beast." Spending nearly the entire length of the movie trying to figure out how to retrieve lost baseballs from said Beast are Smalls and his fellow baseball players in The Sandlot. On its 20th anniversary, revisit the film at midnight at Cinefamily.

Poster for Gangs of Wasseypur, which screens at the Indian Film Festival

Friday, April 5

Start your weekend with a laugh by heading over to the 2013 Los Angeles Comedy Shorts Film Festival at the Downtown Independent. Not only will you be able to enjoy hilarious shorts you'd normally find on sites run by festival sponsors like Break and Funny or Die, but if you're hoping to rule the ranks in new media, there will be panels throughout the event that can teach you how.

Friday's lineup of shorts start at 2:30 p.m. with three 90-minute film blocks, clumped together by theme: "Shuffle Up and Deal With It," "Lucky Little Devils" and "Tough Luck (feat. AWTV)." Shorts featured include "Facebook With Flo (Pt. 1 & 2)," in which a woman tries to explain the phenomenon of Facebook to her 78-year-old mother over the phone, and Julia Mattison's "Put a Filter on Me (The Instagram Song)," where Mattison sings about the various filters on the popular social media app.

End the night with a Friday Night Kyoto Rooftop Garden Party at the DoubleTree by Hilton at 10 p.m., with sponsored beverages in the first hour.

Fourplay

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Friday, March 29
Not to be confused with the contemporary jazz quartet or the 2001 romantic comedy of the same name, Fourplay is a quartet of sex tales from Kyle Henry. Each short is named after the city in which it takes place: "Skokie" (an obese woman with a crush on her minister's wife); "Austin" (a young heterosexual couple's venture into a porn arcade); "Tampa" (a small-penised man and his public-restroom conquests); and "San Francisco" (a transvestite prostitute with a quadriplegic client). Fourplay screens at the Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 p.m., with a post-screening Q&A with the director, and also at the Art Theatre in Long Beach on Sunday, March 31, starting at 9 p.m.

The busty co-eds of Midget Zombie Takeover

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Friday, March 22

Help celebrate two (non-mutually exclusive) minority groups by attending the 10th Annual Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, which starts its two-day run on Friday. The fest will open at 7 p.m. at REDCAT with the documentary Homeboy (not to be confused with last years Homeboy Industries doc, G-Dog) which features candid interviews with former Latino gang members who are gay. After that, at 9 p.m., is an advanced screening of Welsh-Egyptian filmmaker Sally El Hosaini's debut, My Brother the Devil, about two British Arab brothers: While older brother Rashid wants out of gang life, his younger brother Mo wants in. Also playing on the opening night is the 1980 high school musical Fame, at 7:30 p.m. across town at the Egyptian.