Film Review: “Elvis”
FILM REVIEWELVISRated PG-13159 MinutesReleased June 24th Elvis is such an icon of music and style of the mid 20th Century in our country that there are volumes written about him by serious historians. My 7-year-old […]
Film Review: Jurassic World: Dominion
FILM REVIEW JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION Rated PG-13 146 Minutes Released June 10th “Life is a profound mystery, and we are fools if we forget that and think, even for a moment, that we know it […]
Film Review: Top Gun Maverick
FILM REVIEWTOP GUN: MAVERICKRated PG-13137 MinutesReleased May 27th I love films where the cast actually lives through the story in order to transport it to the screen. Top Gun: Maverick is one of those movies, […]
Film Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
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 […]
SMC Student Film “The War Within” Accepted into 2022 American Pavilion at Cannes
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 […]
Landmark Theater Closing in Former Westside Pavillion
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 Review: The Northman
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 […]
Film Review: “HAPPENING” A Gut-Wrenching Look at Illegal Abortions in 1963 France
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 Review: “The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent”
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 […]
Oscars 2022 Wrap Up
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 […]
The first protest at René Redzepi’s Noma pop-up at the Paramour Estate (Video)
The protest was organized by Jason Ignacio White and One Fair Wage after the owner and chef of Noma, René...
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Film Review: Oscars Landscape 2026
My Oscar choices and predictions. The 98th Academy Awards, Sunday, March 15th at 4:00 PM, on ABC, and streaming on...
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