FILM REVIEWEVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCERated R139 MinutesReleased March 25th Everything Everywhere All at Once starts out with a situation familiar to everyone. Evelyn Wang, played by the incomparable Michelle Yeoh, owns a financially strapped […]
Three Santa Monica College Films Will Screen at In-Person Festival, including 2021 Best Student Film Winner “Broken Layers” and 2020’s Finalist “The Attempt” By Staff Writer Santa Monica College (SMC) student film “The War Within”—written […]
Theater will close at the end of month By Sam Catanzaro The Landmark Pico theater at the former Westside Pavillion will soon be closing, the company has announced. The longtime theater was a pioneer in […]
FILM REVIEWTHE NORTHMANRated R137 MinutesReleased April 22nd If the Vikings of 800-1000 AD had the technology, The Northman is the movie they would have made. This is a classic epic set in that era and […]
The Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade on January 22, 1973 stated that restrictive state regulation on abortion is unconstitutional. Before that landmark decision, women were forced to either try to end the pregnancy […]
FILM REVIEWTHE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENTRated R107 MinutesReleased April 22nd Watching The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, I got the feeling that director Tom Gormican had just completed a marathon viewing, over several sleepless […]
Every film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture deserved to win it. As in all the Oscar categories, often the winner is somewhat arbitrary due to certain voters that might like […]
FILM REVIEW: DOGRated PG-13101 MinutesReleased February 18th Congratulations for a job well done to Channing Tatum and longtime collaborator Reid Carolin, each on their first outing as director on the film Dog. Tatum’s career began […]
American Cinematheque’s Gwen Deglise talks about what the theatre has to offer community By Dolores Quintana The Aero Theatre at 1328 Montana Avenue is the Westside home of The American Cinematheque. The American Cinematheque was […]
As I watched Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s fascinating film, which takes place in Chad, a landlocked poor country in North-Central Africa, I was immediately struck by the universal elements of the human condition, which encompasses the unique […]