KCRW, a popular radio station, and the Hammer Museum are hosting a joint musical event called Music for Better Living, part of KCRW’s Summer Nights 2013 concert series. Read more...
Photo: AM & Shawn Lee is one of the bands playing at the Hammer this Thursday as a part of the series, “Music For Better Living.”
As an undergraduate student working in a video store, Andrew deWaard came across Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 crime caper “Out of Sight.” Read more...
Photo: Andrew deWaard, a doctoral candidate at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, released his book on prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s body of work titled “The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape” this May.
It’s been 12 long years since audiences first met the one-eyed green monster Mike Wazowski and the adorably scary James P. Sullivan, “Sulley,” of “Monsters, Inc.” and if anyone can pull off the combination of sequel and prequel that is “Monsters University,” it’s the dynamic duo of Disney and Pixar. Read more...
Saturday brought me to “Ernest & Celestine,” the most adorable children’s movie I’ve seen in, well, ever, and “Life of a King,” a not-at-all cute but equally lesson-oriented film on the true story of Eugene Brown, who started a widely adopted inner-city chess program. Read more...
Some movies set out to be so ambitious they run the risk of collapsing in on their own expectations. Unfortunately, “World War Z” seems to perfectly fit into this category. Read more...
Another day at the L.A. Film Festival brings me to remarkable debut film “Concussion,” a subtle, almost European in temperament film about lesbians and transgression, and “The Spectacular Now,” the much anticipated new film by the writers of “500 Days of Summer.” Miraculously, they manage to work the magic of “500 Days” again with “The Spectacular Now,” bringing the same sort of cliche-busting honesty to a genre (high school romance) chock full of eye-rolling formula. Read more...
The fourth day of my coverage of the LA Film Fest brings me to two very different films: “Casting By,” a fairly by-the-numbers documentary on the unsung heroes (casting directors) of the film industry, and “Only God Forgives,” a purposefully button-pushing gorefest by provocateur Nicholas Winding Refn, working again with “Drive” buddy Ryan Gosling. Read more...
