Movies, music, theatre and culture in Santa Monica – Santa Monica Mirror’s Arts & Entertainment coverage.
The Final Year screens Monday on HBO. Documentary – Not Rated, 89 Minutes, Available HBO May 21 at 5 p.m. Overheard conversation of a runner in Palisades Park while stretching: “Did you watch that documentary I told […]
From the City of Santa Monica: On Wednesday, May 30, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs presents the 2018 Art @ Tongva season finale, Indigenous Now, an evening of performance, music and art by Los Angeles-based indigenous artists. The program […]
By Nick Boyd “Lean on Pete,” a deeply affecting movie about an adolescent’s strong devotion to a racehorse, is a harshly unsentimental look at loyalty, friendship, and survival. Charley Thompson, played to perfection by actor […]
The William Turner Gallery hosted an opening reception Saturday April 28, for artists Curtis Ripley and Peter Lotado. The exhibition featured Ripley’s recent work, a series of atmospheric paintings, as well as Lodato’s bi-chromatic paintings. […]
The 22nd annual COLCOA French Film Festival, the largest festival of its kind dedicated to French cinema and television series, recently wrapped up after eight days of screenings at the Directors Guild of America where […]
Acrylic, oil and watercolor paintings, screen prints, lithographs, statues, photographs as well as mixed media art went up for auction Sunday May 6. The art auction was co-hosted by Santa Monica Auctions and curated with […]
Rated R, 96 Minutes, Released May 4 The movie Tully plays like a short story with a twist, even though it involves the dark side of motherhood. This is a highly unusual view into the trials of […]
From SMPL: As part of its annual community reading event, Santa Monica Reads, the Santa Monica Public Library is honored to welcome authors Naomi Hirahara, Heather C. Lindquist and Art Hansen for a discussion of […]
Although it was released earlier in April, Blockers has still been screening as of this week. I believe the reason it has lasted so long in theatres lies not in the quality of the […]
Our planet is being attacked. Under the direction of the unscrupulous Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, we witness destruction of environmental protections enacted under President Obama’s administration. Ironically, when Pruitt was Attorney […]
