AltWeeklies Wire
Why Is Kim Jong-un So Afraid of Seth Rogen?new
Sony assumed North Korea would hate the movie. The question was: What would it do?
L.A. Weekly |
Amy Nicholson |
12-15-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Kim Jong-Un
Who Killed the Romantic Comedy?new
Rom-coms used to be a cash cow — and wildly popular with audiences. What happened?
L.A. Weekly |
Amy Nicholson |
02-26-2014 |
Movies
Tags: Romantic Comedies
David Lynch: The L.A. Weekly Interviewnew
"I'm not a musician, but I play music."
L.A. Weekly |
Gustavo Turner |
01-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Lynch
Dennis Hopper: Remembering an American dreamernew
Hopper's brief friendship with James Dean, his co-star and mentor on the sets of Rebel Without a Cause and Giant marked him for life; they shared a passion, which Dean was the first person in Hopper's world to fully articulate.
L.A. Weekly |
F.x. Feeney |
06-07-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dennis Hopper
Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan and Movie Mockery in Kevin Smith's New Featurenew
The film's opening shot, set to the Beastie Boys' No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn, is a slow-motion, toe-to-head tilt-up of white cop-black cop buddies Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) swaggering stone-faced toward the camera.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-26-2010 |
Reviews
Martin Scorsese's Throwback Head Trip is the Good Kind of Insanenew
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's parents, begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet.
L.A. Weekly |
Nick Pinkerton |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
Portrait of an American Family, Stuck, From One Halloween to the Nextnew
October Country follows four generations of the Mosher family from one October 31 to the next, and, in between days of the dead, the spooks linger. Halloween itself is a Mosher obsession, a leveler across generations.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
'Daddy Long Legs': The Pleasures of Being Kidnappednew
Filmmaker brothers Benny and Josh Safdie have invited me to meet them here and afterwards discuss their second feature, Daddy Long Legs, which had its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. (It appeared simultaneously on nationwide cable VOD.)
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-05-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sundance Festival Goes Back to its Roots... Or Does It?new
This year, the movie that's attracted the scalping scene outside Eccles is The Runaways, a stylish biopic of the all-teen girl band of the same name. The film has been the subject of blog gossip, thanks to casting of Twilight starlet Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-05-2010 |
Movies
Sundance Film Festival: What's Happening NEXT?new
Riding high on a return to pop relevancy, the Sundance Film Festival's programming team announced NEXT, a sidebar dedicated to reflecting "a new aesthetic enlisting low- and no-budget filmmaking techniques."
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
01-22-2010 |
Movies
Sautéed Chicken Breasts Over Fascism, From the Director of 'The White Ribbon'new
Dogmatic ideologies — religious, political and social — are central to Michael Haneke’s latest film, The White Ribbon, which unfolds in a rural German village during the year preceding the start of World War I.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-08-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
Filmmakers of the Decade: Steven Soderberghnew
Though Erin Brockovich and Traffic were taken seriously as works of social consciousness upon their release, watching them today, it’s impossible to ignore their tendencies toward Hollywood hallmarks such as subtext-free monologuing and suspiciously convenient justice.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina LongworthLONGWORTH |
01-04-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
From Industry Turmoil, Great Films Arosenew
And so another year comes to an end, and with it a decade (Gregorian contrarians notwithstanding) in which the answer to the question “What is cinema?” underwent more radical transmutations than in any comparable period since the dawn of moving images.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-04-2010 |
Movies
'It's Complicated': Nancy Meyers' New Movie is Really Annoyingnew
Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It’s Complicated, Meyers’ biennial stocking-stuffer about the romantic trials and tribulations of obscenely privileged and narcissistic Southern Californians.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-28-2009 |
Reviews
'Nine': Rob Marshall Tries to Connect the Dance Numbersnew
An assault on the senses from every conceivable direction—smash zooms, the earsplitting eruption of something like music, the spectacle of a creature called Kate Hudson—Nine thrashes about in search of “cinema” the way a child thrown into the deep end of a pool flails for a flotation device.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-18-2009 |
Reviews
