Email Author KARINA LONGWORTH

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010

  "Sundance's Rebel Yell"

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2011 Stories by KARINA LONGWORTH

• 'In the Land of Blood and Honey,' Or: Angelina's War Movie

  published December 22, 2011

  It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Team 'Margaret'

  published December 22, 2011

  Margaret—written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), starring Anna Paquin, with key... More >>

• Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, and all the indie Hollywood directors you love/hate

  published December 22, 2011

  We know—you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And The Hunger Games. So are we. We're... More >>

• White People Problems In 'Carnage'

  published December 15, 2011

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, and Kate Winslet... More >>

• Bad Mommy, 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'

  published December 8, 2011

  In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her... More >>

• 'Hugo': A Boy, His Toy and the History of Cinema

  published November 24, 2011

  Martin Scorsese's first foray into big-budget family filmmaking—as well as his inaugural effort in 3-D—Hugo is a personal... More >>

• 'Rampart' Shows Off Some Police Misconduct

  published November 24, 2011

  Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and LA-noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the... More >>

• Some Like It Lukewarm In 'My Week With Marilyn'

  published November 24, 2011

  We get the escapism we deserve, I guess: Just as 1930s Hollywood distracted Depression-era audiences with glitzy Fred and Ginger musicals,... More >>

• 'The Skin I Live In' Offers an Extreme Makeover

  published October 13, 2011

  The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein's hubristic... More >>

• For 'Footloose' 2011, There Will Always Be a Time to Dance

  published October 13, 2011

  In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose—starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross—along with its contemporary... More >>

• 'The Ides of March' Offers No Game Change

  published October 6, 2011

  A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney's fourth directorial effort, The Ides of March, is... More >>

• 'Contagion' Shows It Can Happen Here

  published September 8, 2011

  Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on Day Two of a global... More >>

• 'Our Idiot Brother' Asks: Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?

  published August 25, 2011

  In Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of upstate New York version of "The Dude" Lebowski—a man out of... More >>

• In 'One Day,' Life Happens According to Plan

  published August 18, 2011

  Directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on his novel, One Day stars Anne Hathaway as... More >>

• In 'The Help,' it's Mean Girls vs. the Maids

  published August 11, 2011

  More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious,... More >>

• 'The Change-Up' Shows Guys Pissing Their Lives Away

  published August 4, 2011

  A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as standard issue anal-retentive... More >>

• 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' Is Not Crazy Enough

  published July 28, 2011

  In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high-school sweetheart and husband of... More >>

• 'Another Earth' Angel

  published July 21, 2011

  There may be nothing as Old Hollywood as the narrative about a pretty girl summoning up a dose of pluck to triumph over adversity. And yet Brit... More >>

• 'Captain America,' In the Face of Obstacles, Goes 3-D

  published July 21, 2011

  Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an... More >>

• 'Horrible Bosses' Is a White Man's Lament

  published July 7, 2011

  There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male... More >>

• 'Bad Teacher' Is Funny Like a Not Funny Guy

  published June 23, 2011

  From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline... More >>

• 'Green Lantern' Has Superhero Fatigue

  published June 16, 2011

  It takes 10 minutes for a human character to appear onscreen in Green Lantern, a personality-free franchise-launcher that builds... More >>

• 'Midnight In Paris' is Woody Allen's Wayback Machine

  published May 19, 2011

  A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop—much to... More >>

• 'Bridesmaids' Shows This Is a Man's World

  published May 12, 2011

  Bridesmaids is a high-profile test case. Directed by Paul Feig (a sitcom journeyman most lovingly known as the creator of... More >>

• 'Jane Eyre' Is a Gothic Type

  published March 10, 2011

  If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books, with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most... More >>