Though I'm mightily anxious to see Richard Kelly's DONNIE DARKO follow-up SOUTHLAND TALES, the weekend's top film pick is a no-brainer.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. People are calling it the best film of the year, and if it isn't, it's darn close.
The Coen brothers have been spinning their wheels for a while -- O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU was good, but I can take or leave INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, THE LADYKILLERS, THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE, and much as I know BIG LEBOWSKI is now beloved by stoner-hipsters,
For the first time in many weeks, there's actually a movie I'm excited to see this weekend. And I probably won't get to it because I'm busy cramming for the Newport Beach fest. But I ain't gonna lie, I really do want to see THE RUINS.
I know what you're thinking, that this is just another SHUTTER or ONE MISSED CALL or any of those other crappy "horror" movies that haven't screened in time for review and I've ended up covering. But I'm thinking not, and here's why;
1. It's rated R. Those other
Laguna Beach's masterfully mellow Donavon Frankenreiter is poised to chill folks out for two consecutive nights at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, tonight and tomorrow. Check out our review of his latest release here. Opening up is Gary Jules, known best for his totally depressing cover of "Mad World" by Tears for Fears, made famous by Donnie Darko and Gears of War commercials, two things that you wouldn't necessarily would have a ton to do with each other. Sadly, both shows are sold out
Wandering Uterus Reunion Tour, 7:30 p.m.In 1999, Marty McConnell, Andi Strickland, and Heather Gawronski
created an all-female performance poetry troupe called "The Morrigan"
and set out on the first of three groundbreaking cross-country
Wandering Uterus Tours. Now, ten years later, Marty and Andi have
reunited to co-found Vox Ferus, and Marty is taking to the road again
with the Wandering Uterus Tour 2009, bringing with her some fresh new
female voices. Price: $2Ugly Mug Caffe, 261 North Glass
