AltWeeklies Wire
'The Love Guru': Mike Myers' Cosmic Goofnew
Mostly it's dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel (a second unit on the Austin Powers movies) and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers shooting for cuddly.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-20-2008 |
Reviews
'Kit Kittredge': As American As Overpriced Dollsnew
In Mattel co-production, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-20-2008 |
Reviews
Perez Hilton Unveils His New Fashion Linenew
Hilton, rumormonger, blogger and creative force behind PerezHilton.com, a.k.a. "Hollywood's most-hated website," debuted his own fashion line for Hot Topic this weekend.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-13-2008 |
Fashion
Is Pasadena's Art Center Gehry-Rigged?new
Arts Center president Richard Koshalek says no, but students and fearful faculty beg to differ.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
06-13-2008 |
Art
Director Sergei Bodrov Retraces the Footsteps of Genghis Khannew
Just over a decade ago, Bodrov made his mark in the West with his Academy Award–nominated movie Prisoner of the Mountains. After frustrating stints as a director-for-hire, he did the smart thing and made the movie he wanted to make.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
06-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ron Burkle Confronts Life Without the Clintons and Instant White House Accessnew
With Senator Barack Obama winning the Democratic presidential nomination, and with a definite power shift within the party that's moving away from Bill and Hillary Clinton, political observers are already wondering if Burkle -- a top-echelon supporter of the Clintons -- will end up some kind of loser.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
06-13-2008 |
Politics
Secure Borders? Try Fenced Innew
With $860 million spending sprees, high-tech surveillance towers that don't work and Operation Streamline show trials, it's still the same old catch-and-release game.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
06-13-2008 |
Immigration
Sunny and Mild: Getting to Know L.A.'s TV Weather Friendsnew
Few of us realize that a tremendous amount of both science and communication skills goes into forecasting the weather.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-13-2008 |
Media
Controversy at Cannes: 'The Headless Woman'new
At Cannes, one can reliably emerge from seeing a near masterpiece only to discover that everyone -- or at least the influential industry trade newspapers -- has declared the very same movie une catastrophe! Such is the case with The Headless Woman.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-30-2008 |
Movies
Norwegian Pie: Joachim Trier's 'Reprise'new
Like their American youth-movie counterparts, the 20-something guy friends of Norwegian director Trier's Reprise spend a lot of time talking about and clumsily pursuing the fairer sex. Only, his characters are as much (or more) concerned with getting published as getting laid.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Despite the Labels, SATC Movie is a Canal Street Knockoffnew
Trust me, there's precious little to give away other than labels, for though Sex and the City is every bit as busy as its HBO progenitor was, it's mostly plotless, not to mention pointless.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-30-2008 |
Reviews
Eminent Domain Targeted by California's Propositions 98 and 99new
Californians face two radically different choices for protecting private property on the June 3 ballot. But the campaigns for propositions 98 and 99 have managed to create enough confusion, suspicion and hyperbole that fresh surveys indicate neither measure is currently luring the 50-percent-plus-one voters needed for passage.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
05-30-2008 |
Housing & Development
Marisa Silver's Ares Ramirez Only Seems Normalnew
Silver gives voice to real outsiders, society's castoffs who eke out precarious livings around the edges of that other failure, the Salton Sea, a river deflected long ago in hopes of creating a desert oasis for tourists, and now so polluted and oversalinated that it washes up trash and dead fish by the thousand.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-27-2008 |
Fiction
Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Meccanew
Sure, this bastard love child of real golf and Chutes and Ladders is what Satan would make Tiger Woods play if he wound up in Hell. And yeah, it's just about the tackiest sport ever invented. But minigolf is also supremely relaxing.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
05-27-2008 |
Recreation
Van Morrison Once Again Ventures Into the Slipstreamnew
What has eluded Morrison in recent years -- and what the famously press-skeptical artist has certainly done nothing to court -- is a galvanizing, buzz-worthy, late-career "comeback" on the order of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan or Neil Diamond.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
