Like Someone in Love – Abbas Kiarostami (Iran via France via Japan) Among Kiarostami fans, the Tokyo-set Like Someone in Love caused something of a split. Though he’s made films outside of Iran before, it’s a bit of a departure for the Iranian director, whose usual mode of working involves searching out the core of a...
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It was a hell of a rough seven days, days that saw the end of Tony Scott, Phyllis Diller, Jerry Nelson and Neil Armstrong. For our purposes here, Tony Scott was the biggest loss, but personally, while I liked the other three, I admired the hell out of Neil Armstrong as much for his...
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After careful consideration on Thursday evening as I talked to a few people I know who are attending Comic Con this week, I decided not to bother keeping up with it this year, and not to post any Con info here. If you’re interested in Comic Con news, you’ve already been paying attention and...
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It’s been almost a week since Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted on HBO. Girls, the story of a group of rich/upper middle class white girl post-grads living in Brooklyn who have yet to figure out their own lives, continues the deconstruction of the director’s own life that was started in her previous film, the polarizing...
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Justin has the Official All-Knowing Top Ten List covered in print this week (even though any list without Hugo nestled snugly into the top spot is clearly very wrongheaded and misguided), so I thought I’d take a different look at 2011 and run with the Underrated theme. It’s kind of a useless theme in...
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So, depending on who you ask, this week’s big genre release, Drive, was either the greatest film since Citizen Kane or the worst film since The Hottie and the Nottie. I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, and I might wait until all of the jizzing/furor wears off to not feel compelled...
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‘Arrested Development’ success in keeping the family together Film & DVD: Don’t let early reviews of the new Netflix episodes ruin it for you By Ashley Belanger 6/19/2013
Deafheaven’s ‘Sunbather’ is basically the new black Music: The black metal band basks in the brightness of their sophomore album By Robert Miller 6/19/2013
‘Monsters University’ almost as good as the superb original Film & DVD: Pixar’s prequel to Monsters, Inc. is monstrously magical By Cameron Meier 6/19/2013
Marco Rubio’s gay panic News: Senator sticks foot in mouth when discussing gay immigrants By Billy Manes 6/19/2013
Audubon Park/Baldwin Park Annual Manual 2013: Sometimes opposites really do attract 4/12/2013
Food Truck Wars News: Some say city’s temporary use permit for mobile food vendors is unfair By Erin Sullivan 6/19/2013