Tim Burton's latest creepy-fun flick revolves around a vampire and his family
By NICK PINKERTON,
May 10, 2012
A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More>>
James McTeigue's Edgar Allan Poe flick finds itself wedged between self-serious solemnity and sadism
By NICK PINKERTON,
May 03, 2012
At the height of his literary fame, Edgar Allan Poe, who popularized cryptography in his story "The Gold Bug," was so renowned as a code-breaker... More>>
Paddling out with the 'H2indO' and 'Decade of Dominance' filmmaker at the Newport Beach Film Festival
By MATT COKER,
April 26, 2012
San Clemente's Brent Deal has made his living the past 15 years directing children's toy commercials, but he started out behind the camera on... More>>
Deep in the heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's latest
By NICK PINKERTON,
April 26, 2012
Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More>>
Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More>>
Natalie Costa's documentary describes a prescription-drug 'epidemic' killing local kids
By MATT COKER,
April 19, 2012
Apologies for the macabre opening, but the documentary Behind the Orange Curtain was born out of the deaths of Jarrod Barber and Mark Melkonian,... More>>
'Stories From an Undeclared War' takes the Freedom Writers muse Erin back to her old stomping grounds
By MATT COKER,
April 19, 2012
Erin Gruwell graduated from Bonita High School in La Verne, but her undergrad studies took her to UC Irvine, and she later called Newport Beach... More>>
The Newport Beach Film Festival series of music-themed pictures returns for a second year with a new partner, the OC Music Awards, and a program... More>>
Beyond the mascot, Kevin Macdonald's comprehensive documentary stirs it up
By MELISSA ANDERSON,
April 19, 2012
I spotted a bottle of something called Marley's Mellow Mood, "a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages," in my neighborhood deli... More>>
It's Nicholas Sparks' world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven't scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical... More>>
Or at least so says Hollywood, with this week's 3D release of 'Titanic' and the long-awaited Pie-pic 'American Reunion'
By NICK PINKERTON,
April 05, 2012
A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron's 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone With the Wind-style cinematic... More>>
Whit Stillman returns with a toe-tapping college-girl fantasy
By ERIC HYNES,
April 05, 2012
Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his... More>>
Nanni Moretti releases a toothless satire of the Catholic Church
By MELISSA ANDERSON,
April 05, 2012
Suitable entertainment for a Knights of Columbus fund-raiser, Nanni Moretti's Good Friday-released We Have a Pope finds the Most Holy Father,... More>>
