Subject: Film Awards

• Gunning for an Indie Spirit Award

  Newport Beach filmmaker Aric Avelino's American Gun was announced today as an Independent Spirit Award best picture nominee. Half Nelson, The Dead Girl, Pan's Labyrinth and Little Miss Sunshine round out the premiere category for the 2007 Film Independent's Spirit Awards ceremony that will air live beginning at 3 p.m. (and, if past years are any indication, immediately rebroadcast) on Saturday, Feb. 24, on IFC, the Independent Film Channel. Only Half Nelson and Little Miss Sunshine, with five n

  November 28, 2006

• Rohrabacher's Appalling Flatulence

  In case you missed it, you can find video of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') speculating about the effects of dinosaur flatulence here. And no, booze was not involved in the congressman's ramblings. Probing the effects of dinosaur farting is just something Rohrabacher sees as part of his official duties, one of the ways in which he serves the interests of his constituents. The question about the noxious gas emitted by thunder-lizards was part of the noxious gas Rohrabacher emitted during la

  February 13, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 7-20-07

  Tough one, this. There is no way I'm ever going to recommend Hairspray -- even if it turns out to be passable, I hate the very idea of it. As for Adam Sandler pretending to be gay...if GLAAD approved of the movie, I'm thinking Sandler's gonna be pretty defanged in it (ironic, since I know there's a scene where he dresses up as Dracula). Goya's Ghosts apprently features Natalie Portman's first nude scene, but it's while she's being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, so that doesn't sound too ho

  July 20, 2007

• Comic-Con 2007: Wall-E

  "What if mankind had to evacuate Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?" This is the idea behind Wall.E, which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth class (pronounced "Wally," as in George). Director Andrew Stanton is determined to capture the epic spirit and sense of wonder in the '70s sci-fi flicks he grew up with...but done PIxar-style. yep, this is a Pixar-Disney production, and in the spirit of the MTV movie awards, is next year's "Best Summer Movie You Haven't S

  July 28, 2007

• SoCal Independent Film Festival: The Winners

  The award winners have just been announced, and they are: Best-in-the-Fest and Best Feature both deservedly went to the dysfunctional-American-brothers-in-Thailand drama The Elephant King, which I picked as best and gave a film pick to, so I hope some of you readers saw it. This probably boosts its chances of getting a wider audience. Best Short was "Validation," one of the few I didn't see. Go figure. Best Director was Calvin Simmons for his fun preproduction satire Float; I'd say Elephant K

  September 10, 2007

• Hinns Hair Habulous!

  April 6, 2000

• Love Goddess

  June 22, 2000

• Grabbing a Tiger by the Tale

  February 8, 2001

• Why America Loves an Asian Martial-Arts Flick

  February 22, 2001

• Down Goes Ali

  February 14, 2002

• Penis Dentatus

  April 3, 2003

• Bruce Springsteen Returns to SoCal, Releases an Album

  For an older fella, Bruce Springsteen has been keeping busy lately. His new album, Working on a Dream, is out today, he won a Golden Globe a couple weeks ago for the title track of "The Wrestler" (an excellent tune which was oddly snubbed at the Oscar noms), and he's playing at the Super Bowl on Sunday (go Cardinals!!).He--and the E Street Band--are also returning to Southern California on April 15, Live Nation announced today. The show will be at the LA Sports Arena, and comes about a year afte

  January 27, 2009

• UCI's Kyle Good Done Good in Online Video Contest

    After clicking the "play" symbol on 133 YouTube video submissions, judges selected the entry above by UC Irvine student Kyle Good as one of three finalists for the X Prize Foundation's "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" online video contest. That could bring him a $25,000 check when the winner is announced next week.  Good's "The Capacitor Challenge," which calls for the creation of a new battery storage "ultra capacitor" device to power everything from i-Pods to electri

  January 28, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Bad Santa,' 'Bambi,' 'The Goonies,' More

  December 11, 2008

• Star Wars

  March 5, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Movie of the Week: 'Xanadu!'

  January 8, 2009

• Primadonnas

  January 1, 2009

• H-Train

  December 18, 2008

• Love Spell

  December 11, 2008

• Diana Ross

  December 4, 2008

• Raving Genius

  November 6, 2008

• Maori On Your Back

  June 26, 2008

• Wide Screen Story

  June 26, 2008

• Dry Heat

  June 5, 2008

• It's a Hit

  May 29, 2008

• Back Since November

  January 10, 2008

• The Joy in the Bubble

  Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

  May 31, 2007

• Everyones a Winner

  Cannes jury spreads out awards, giving Romanian the big prize

  May 31, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Big Sleep

  May 31, 2007

• Camera dCheatin

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

  February 8, 2007

• Midnight Cowboy

  South Coast Regency Village

  April 23, 2009

• The Forerunners of Commie Girl

  October 12, 2006

• Albom's Wonderful Life

  June 8, 2006

• The Two Faces of Jon

  March 2, 2006

• Out-bitched and Out-swished

  January 26, 2006

• The Full Wilkinson

  September 15, 2005

• Snark Alert!

  February 24, 2005

• Bring the Pain

  February 24, 2005

• Cinematic Balm

  October 14, 2004

• Oscar, Oscar, Oscar

  March 28, 2002

• Smells Like Spleen Spirit

  January 24, 2002

• Sex, Drugs and Narcissism

  March 29, 2001

• Harry Warren—The Brilliant Unknown

  June 18, 2009

• Incoming: Miley Cyrus Coming to Honda Center

  It's Miley!!(Note to self: Do not Google image search Miley Cyrus at work. Or anywhere. You won't feel great about yourself afterwards.)Destiny Hope Cyrus, the 16-year-old phenom better known as Miley Cyrus better known as TV alter ego Hannah Montana, is coming to the Honda Center in Anaheim on Sept. 23. Surely huge news for our target demographic.This is already a big week for Cyrus--what with winning a prestigious MTV Movie Award for best song from a movie (or whatever they might call that awa

  June 3, 2009

• Miley Cyrus

  September 17, 2009

• A Man For All Seasons

  September 17, 2009

• Serenity

  October 1, 2009

• Spamalot

  October 8, 2009

• Taxi Driver screening with Harry Ufland Q&A

  November 5, 2009