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>>
In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of a fictional... More>>
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>>
Kirk Jones shapes narrow worldview from Heidi Murkoff's mega-best-selling pregnancy manual
By ERIC HYNES,
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>>
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>>
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