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[Summer Guide 2012] Your guide to the good stuff
, May 24, 2012
In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create—and,... More>>
'Moonrise Kingdom' Is Wes Anderson's Most Fully Realized Film 'Moonrise Kingdom' Is Wes Anderson's Most Fully Realized Film
A swooning, exhilarating doomed-love story follows preteens on an adventure
, 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>>
'Men In Black 3' Travels Back in Time 'Men In Black 3' Travels Back in Time
Why can't it stay there?
, May 24, 2012
Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men In Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More>>
Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Know: Wadiya Laughing At? Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Know: Wadiya Laughing At?
The comic's latest experiment is 'The Dictator'
, May 17, 2012
In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of a fictional... More>>
Insert [You Sunk My 'Battleship'] Joke Here Insert [You Sunk My 'Battleship'] Joke Here
Because every generation needs an 'Armageddon'
, May 17, 2012
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I swear to... More>>
Examining the Parent Trap in 'What to Expect When You're Expecting' Examining the Parent Trap in 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'
Kirk Jones shapes narrow worldview from Heidi Murkoff's mega-best-selling pregnancy manual
, May 17, 2012
Even though it doesn't have a story, characters or setting, Heidi Murkoff's mega-best-selling, 28-year-old pregnancy manual, What to Expect When... More>>
Johnny Depp As Family Man In 'Dark Shadows' Johnny Depp As Family Man In 'Dark Shadows'
Tim Burton's latest creepy-fun flick revolves around a vampire and his family
, 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>>
Killing for All the Right Reasons in 'God Bless America' Killing for All the Right Reasons in 'God Bless America'
Bobcat Goldthwait's pseudo-enlightened death penalty
, May 10, 2012
Frank (Joel Murray) is an outcast. We first meet this divorced, fiftyish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker—the protagonist of Bobcat... More>>
'I Wish' for a Miracle Train 'I Wish' for a Miracle Train
Hoping for a family reunion on the high-speed rail
, May 10, 2012
Japan's Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute, patient observer of all human behavior, but between 2004's Nobody Knows—about four kids... More>>
Lit Majors In Love in 'Bonsái' Lit Majors In Love in 'Bonsái'
The downside to reading
, May 10, 2012
The bookish young lovers at the heart of the Chilean film Bonsái have cultivated an almost militant seriousness when it comes to... More>>
'The Avengers' Is Superhero Soup 'The Avengers' Is Superhero Soup
Good guys, bad guys, tight pants and explosions!
, May 03, 2012
At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract—a powerful, potentially dangerous... More>>
'The Raven' Is Not the Poe Drama You Deserve 'The Raven' Is Not the Poe Drama You Deserve
James McTeigue's Edgar Allan Poe flick finds itself wedged between self-serious solemnity and sadism
, 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>>
Brent Deal Is a Stand-Up Guy Brent Deal Is a Stand-Up Guy
Paddling out with the 'H2indO' and 'Decade of Dominance' filmmaker at the Newport Beach Film Festival
, 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>>
'Bernie' Features Murder In a Small Town 'Bernie' Features Murder In a Small Town
Deep in the heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's latest
, 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>>
Back From the Future in 'Sound of My Voice' Back From the Future in 'Sound of My Voice'
Brit Marling preaches end times
, 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>>
The Newport Beach Film Festival's Sweet 13
The local cinestravaganza comes of age
, April 19, 2012
Think back to when you were 13—or, if you're 13, think back to now. Slurping life juice from mama's teat is a faded memory. Volcanic puss... More>>
Newport Beach Film Festival's Social Network Newport Beach Film Festival's Social Network
A curated sample of socially relevant offerings at the 2012 festival
, April 19, 2012
One asterisk (*) next to a title indicates that film is highly recommended. All other descriptions are based on information provided by... More>>
'Behind the Orange Curtain' and the OC OD Tsunami 'Behind the Orange Curtain' and the OC OD Tsunami
Natalie Costa's documentary describes a prescription-drug 'epidemic' killing local kids
, 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>>
Erin Gruwell Documents the War At Home Erin Gruwell Documents the War At Home
'Stories From an Undeclared War' takes the Freedom Writers muse Erin back to her old stomping grounds
, 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>>
Newport Beach Film Festival's Sounds and Fury Newport Beach Film Festival's Sounds and Fury
Its music series makes more noise
, April 19, 2012
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>>
Roots, Doc, Reggae in 'Marley' Roots, Doc, Reggae in 'Marley'
Beyond the mascot, Kevin Macdonald's comprehensive documentary stirs it up
, 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>>
No Sparks In 'The Lucky One' No Sparks In 'The Lucky One'
The chemistry fizzles in 'Notebook'-lite film
, April 19, 2012
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>>
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do in 'Goodbye First Love' Breaking Up Is Hard to Do in 'Goodbye First Love'
Becoming a real person is, too
, April 19, 2012
Writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve's third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola Créton), a... More>>
It's Another Day, Another Drink in 'The Day He Arrives' It's Another Day, Another Drink in 'The Day He Arrives'
In Hong Sang-soo's latest, life repeats, and then reveals itself
, April 19, 2012
You don't have to understand the intricacies of Korean manners to enjoy Hong Sang-soo's subtly mortifying comedies. Nor do you have to be on... More>>
Joss Whedon's Clever Is Showing Joss Whedon's Clever Is Showing
Built to impress, 'Cabin In the Woods' can't see the forest for the trees
, April 12, 2012
At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate—an actual hand, mind you. And no, that is not a... More>>
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