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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2012 Stories by KARINA LONGWORTH

• The Real Gurl of 'Katy Perry: Part of Me'

  published July 5, 2012

  From bubblegum, bi-curious novelty "I Kissed a Girl" on, Katy Perry has built a career on glorious brain-dead-with-a-wink odes to playacting in... More >>

• High Fantasy 'Savages'

  published July 5, 2012

  "Welcome to the recession, boys," says John Travolta's DEA-double-agent profiteer in Oliver Stone's Savages, based on Don Winslow's... More >>

• A Star Is Bared in 'Magic Mike'

  published June 28, 2012

  When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike—which... More >>

• Woody's Roman Holiday

  published June 28, 2012

  Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan—a love letter to the titular city, a romantic celebration... More >>

• In 'Safety Not Guaranteed' and 'Lola Versus,' Love Doesn't Mean an Insult to the Audience's Intelligence

  published June 7, 2012

  With her high cheekbones, feline brown eyes and heart-shaped mouth, actress Aubrey Plaza is bombshell-hot. But in an unusual twist for a... More >>

• 'Moonrise Kingdom' Is Wes Anderson's Most Fully Realized Film

  published May 24, 2012

  It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny,... More >>

• Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Know: Wadiya Laughing At?

  published May 17, 2012

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of a... More >>

• 'The Avengers' Is Superhero Soup

  published May 3, 2012

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract—a powerful,... More >>

• Back From the Future in 'Sound of My Voice'

  published April 26, 2012

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do in 'Goodbye First Love'

  published April 19, 2012

  Writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille... More >>

• Guy Maddin's Haunted House In 'Keyhole'

  published April 5, 2012

  The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of the... More >>

• The Great Mystery of 'Casa De Mi Padre'

  published March 29, 2012

  Casa de Mi Padre is a Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell as a simpleminded, asexual Mexican cowboy who welcomes... More >>

• In '4:44 Last Day On Earth,' New York Is Really Over

  published March 22, 2012

  In writer/director Abel Ferrara's vision of the apocalypse, Chinese joints deliver right up until the end. The media's "live coverage"... More >>

• Into the Woods With 'The Kid With a Bike'

  published March 15, 2012

  The Kid With a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,... More >>

• Only God Knows In This 'Footnote'

  published March 8, 2012

  In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi)—a fortysomething... More >>

• 'Being Flynn' Is About Fathers and Sons in Suck City

  published March 1, 2012

  Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck... More >>

• Mojtaba Mirtahmasb Is Not a Director and 'This Is Not a Film'

  published March 1, 2012

  In 2010, internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home. A neorealist who has been a vocal opponent of... More >>

• Hollywood's Happy (Oscars) Ending

  published February 23, 2012

  To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is... More >>

• Sleepwalking Through 'Safe House'

  published February 9, 2012

  "He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan... More >>

• Sundance, In Crisis

  published January 26, 2012

  It's potentially dangerous to look at the lineup of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, as a reflection of the character of... More >>

• 'Haywire''s Odd Couple

  published January 19, 2012

  "Steven [Soderbergh] asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?' I told him, 'I don't know,' and he said,... More >>

• All About the Queen In 'Miss Bala'

  published January 19, 2012

  Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala spells out the destiny of its would-be... More >>

• 'The Iron Lady' Doesn't Know How She Did It

  published January 5, 2012

  In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which reteams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep,... More >>