Subject: Academy Awards

• NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2007: LITTLE FUGITIVE REVIEW

  When his alcoholic mother irresponsibly leaves the house for the weekend, eleven-year-old Lenny "borrows" his mother's handgun for some afternoon fun. Annoyed by having to watch over his younger brother Joey, Lenny plays a hideously mean prank, convincingly pretending that he's been shot dead by Joey. Convinced that he has become a murderer, Joey runs away to Coney Island, where his grandfather used to live and work as a sideshow midget. There he begins to eke out a new existence with money col

  April 19, 2007

• God Bless America, Tom & Jerry Style

  While other websites post the Declaration of Independence for their 4th of July entry, we at the Weekly encourage a more palatable visual to the greatest country on earth: Tom and Jerry's Academy Award-winning Yankee Doodle Mouse. Make sure to blow up your illegal Mexican fireworks in parking lots, amigo!

  July 4, 2008

• Why America Loves an Asian Martial-Arts Flick

  February 22, 2001

• Kevin Costner (Yes, That Kevin Costner) Added to Stagecoach

  Kevin "Swing Vote" Costner--actor, Academy Award-winning director, former Orange County resident and apparent musician--has been added to the line-up for Stagecoach, "California's County Music Festival" (the "country Coachella;" it takes place on the Empire Polo Club in Indio the weekend after the big C).Costner fronts a band called Kevin Costner and the Modern West; as far as rootsy musical projects from middle-aged actors, it's better than Val Kilmer's stuff, at least. Costner's debut album, U

  December 11, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Notorious,' More

  April 3, 2008

• Learn Everything You Wanted to Know About the 'Blood Diamond' Score

  For one event at its American Composers Festival, Pacific Symphony Orchestra teams with the Newport Beach Film Festival to present "Behind the Score," a free special screening of the James Newton Howard-scored and Academy Award-nominated 2006 movie Blood Diamond, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Regency Lido in Newport Beach.Appearing at an in-person Q&A will be Howard (pictured) and the film's producer-director, Edward Zwick, also known for Glory and The Last Samurai. Blood Diamond, whic

  February 4, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Hania,' 'Nothing Like the Holidays,' More

  February 26, 2009

• Tickets Now on Sale for Newport Beach Film Festival

  Tickets for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF), which runs April 23-30, are now on sale here. Those will cost you $12 for general admission (or $8 if you are a student or senior buying before 5 p.m.); $30 for all Spotlight films and parties; $55 for the Opening Night film and party; and $125 for the Opening Night film and gala, which is like a party only you have to dress like you belong there.The April 23 opener at Edwards Big Newport is a solid one this year: Derick Martini's L

  March 31, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of Oscar-Nominated Short Films, More

  February 5, 2009

• Primadonnas

  January 1, 2009

• Wide Screen Story

  June 26, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Screenings of 'Scarface: The Shame of a Nation,' 'Blade Runner,' More

  June 26, 2008

• Dry Heat

  June 5, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Harold and Maude,' 'Iron Giant,' 'Lawrence of Arabia,' More

  June 5, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of The Violin, More

  March 6, 2008

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: Sahara

  October 4, 2007

• Anti-war Aerobics

  Jane Fonda

  September 27, 2007

• Film

  MOJADOS: THROUGH THE NIGHT

  August 3, 2006

• Hand It to Him

  OnDVD: The Science of Sleep

  February 8, 2007

• Of Dicks and Men

  The Hunger Artists whip it out with The Full Monty

  August 9, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Graduate
  

  June 14, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Who Killed the Electric Car?

  June 7, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Big Sleep

  May 31, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Searchers

  April 19, 2007

• Camera dCheatin

  The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

  February 8, 2007

• Gray Paris

  March 8, 2007

• Taken for a Ride

  October 12, 2006

• Picks 'n' Pans

  August 3, 2006

• Beast of Burden

  June 8, 2006

• Albom's Wonderful Life

  June 8, 2006

• After the Crash

  April 20, 2006

• Sexual Surrealist

  April 6, 2006

• Head-Turning

  Catching up with the guy who made the scariest movie everand then did opera

  March 16, 2006

• Thug Lives

  February 23, 2006

• Out-bitched and Out-swished

  January 26, 2006

• White Magic

  June 9, 2005

• FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

  April 14, 2005

• Wet Hankie

  March 17, 2005

• TOC

  February 24, 2005

• Letters

  September 9, 2004

• The Blame

  April 1, 2004

• War, Peace and Hank

  Onscreen dissent is on campus

  March 6, 2003

• More Bang, Less Muck

  January 31, 2002

• Whole Lotta Love

  September 13, 2001

• I Forget

  August 2, 2001

• Newport Beach Film Fest: Final Stretch Report

  The big question on the mind of anyone amid the crowds at Edwards Island Cinema at Fashion Island in Newport Beach Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights was: My God, don't these people work? And a second: Don't they know we're teetering on Depression? Finally: Buddy, can you spare a ticket?   The masses were expected at the Newport Beach Film Festival over the weekend, but Monday night's healthy crowd became Tuesday night's packed house which became Wednesday night's mob scene. Bet your hou

  April 30, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 5/11

  Film Screening: The Bridge on the River Kwai, 8 p.m. This 1957 WWII film classic starring William Holden and Alec Guinness won seven Academy Awards back in the day. See why tonight at the Bay  Theater in Seal Beach. They just don't make movies like this anymore.  Bay Theater - Seal Beach, 340 Main St., Seal Beach, CA; 562-431-9988OC Weekly and Pink Kitty's "7 Days Of Gay", 8 p.m.Who says Orange County doesn't have a rockin' gay scene? Experience the homosexual happiness with OC Weekly

  May 11, 2009

• Incoming: Lila Downs, Jamie Foxx at Grove of Anaheim

  An acclaimed Mexican singer and an Academy Award winner--yep, a couple of very different shows are coming to the Grove of Anaheim this summer.

  May 13, 2009

• Harry Warren—The Brilliant Unknown

  June 18, 2009

• A.R. Rahman

  September 24, 2009