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The Sahara Tent Kicked Ass This Year

The EDM-focused Sahara tent is twice as tall this year, and much wider and longer too. It's now roughly the size of an airplane hanger. The arched mega-tent is not just a dubstep paradise, but a behemoth of truss and LED panels. The visuals are otherworldly, with kaleidoscopic light and graphic disp ... More >>

MacGillivray Freeman Films of Laguna Beach and IMAX Ink Deal to Make 4 Pictures Together

MacGillivray Freeman Films, the Laguna Beach-based maker of large-format documentaries that lean toward capturing beautiful nature scenes, has reached an agreement with IMAX to jointly finance, market and distribute four films. Up first under the deal is a film set in the exotic cluster of Indonesia ... More >>

BLUE Ocean Film Fest Honors MacGillivray Freeman's One World One Ocean Campaign

First, it was a documentary from MacGillivray Freeman Films winning awards.Now, it's the campaign that sprang the Laguna Beach company's film To the Arctic that is taking honors.

To the Arctic, Documentary on Polar Bears Dealing with Climate Change, Wins Awards; Coming Attraction: A Fierce Green Fire

To the Arctic, MacGillivray Freeman Films' breathtaking 3D IMAX documentary about living beings dealing with climate change at the top of the world, recently won two top prizes at the 2012 Giant Screen Cinema Association Achievement Awards.Produced and directed by the Laguna Beach company's co-found ... More >>

Indiana Jones and the Perils of Humanistic Decency

Still joyously disreputable, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' comes to IMAX

Cool Films to Watch When It's Hot Outside

[Summer Guide 2012] Your guide to the good stuff

The Talents of Many and a Shared Love of Oceans Bring To the Arctic to Irvine IMAX

After witnessing a polar bear mother protect her two cubs--in 3D--from dangers posed by ever-changing elements in the Arctic wilderness, To the Arctic narrator Meryl Streep suggests that mankind do a better job of mothering the region's wildlife by doing what we can to slow down glaciers and ice fie ... More >>

Greg MacGillivray, Large-Format Filmmaker, Shares His Life and Love of the Ocean

​Greg MacGillivray of MacGillivray Freeman Films in Laguna Beach shares his life story tonight at a Laguna Canyon Conservancy fundraiser. Besides his company's many achievements--which include two Oscar nominations, the highest-grossing large-screen format film of all time (Everest) and $1 billion ... More >>

[UPDATED: Deep Sea Adventure On Hold; Shark Hunting Instead] Rich Man's Deep-Sea Submarine May Soon Call Newport Harbor Home

Via VirginOceanic.comThe Virgin Oceanic ain't sea-ready yet.​​UPDATED, JULY 22, 4:15 P.M.: The hope to take a submarine to the five deepest depths of the ocean floor is on hold while the submarine undergoes additional work, according to Newport Beach Patch. The voyage, which was officially annou ... More >>

The Mummy's Curse

Motion-capture maternal anxiety in outer space flounders

Happy Tron Tuesday!

​If you're not sick of all the Tron: Legacy news yet, here's more: On Oct. 28, you can save a spot to watch a 20 minute preview of the much awaited sequel on IMAX 3D by heading over to a special Tron Night website today at 10 a.m.Disney announced the event as the kicker to the ... More >>

Beware of Zombies at Block of Orange Tonight

​Zombies roam the Block of Orange tonight, but this time it is not to feed on the brains of the unwashed at Dave and Buster's.Moviegoers are invited to dust off that zombie outfit in the closet and join the "Zombie Walk to the Block," which leads up to the screening of Resident Evil: Afterlife--an ... More >>

IMAX Marks its Inception at Block at Orange

​Today marks the inception of a new IMAX theater in Orange County.So, what better place is there to open Inception: The IMAX Experience.Christopher Nolan's dreamy sci-fi thriller, which stars Leonardo Di Caprio, opens at 10:50 a.m. on the new IMAX screen at AMC 30 at The Block at Orange.

And Now For Some Phish News...

​ We have good news and not-so-good news for all local Phans out here.

Kelly Slater and Raimana Van Bastolaer Hit IMAX

Jeff Hornbaker​Nine-time world championship surfer Kelly Slater is gracing the giant IMAX screen with an educational and thrilling 3-D surf ride, in The Ultimate Wave Tahiti. The three year project directed by Stephen Low uses the same technology as box office mega hit Avatar to take its viewers t ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Irony Alert: Kettle Brand Baked Potato Chips

Edwin GoeiSaw this on sale at Costco this weekend and it was so thick with irony, I could not resist taking a picture. To me it seems like the worst case of brand dilution since what California Adventure has meant for Disney theme parks; but even more so. I suppose it's about the only option f ... More >>

[Newport Beach Film Fest] An Encapsulated Diary Digesting the Decade-Old Newport Beach Film Festival

Laguna Art Museum's 'In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor' Satisfies Lowbrow Needs

Now Playing: STEEP

The publicists for STEEP seemed rather anxious for me to write about it, though I'm not entirely sure why – it's not my kind of film at all. I offer that as a caveat, in anticipation of those who will tell me that I just don't get it, because in some ways, I don't. I find it amusing that once upon ... More >>

Comic-Con follow-up: See Naked CG Angelina for Yourself

No doubt some readers recall my description of the Beowulf footage shown at Comic-Con, featuring a photo-realistic 3-D naked Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother. While you won't see that exact footage until the film comes out later this fall, you can get a glimpse of all of Jolie, and much more, in ... More >>

2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

Comic-Con 2007: Beowulf Cummin' At'cha

It's not clear how aware the rest of the world is of the new Beowulf movie, but it's quite the huge deal here. Coming out in November in 3-D, 3-D IMAX, and plain old regular (not the way to see it if you can help it), this is a performance-capture animated film, a la Polar Express. I'm going to ass ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 7-13-07

You probably thought I was going to say Harry Potter, and I thought so too, until about 2 a.m. last night. The new Harry Potter's fine -- better than fine, if you catch it in IMAX and see the 20 climactic minutes in 3-D. But it's also wildly inconsistent, with some scenes being really nicely direc ... More >>

Dark Phoenix

New Potter mines the depths of adolescent angst

Circle in the Sand

It's not quite what you expect to see at the beach. A circle of 25 big black boxes, each 8 feet by 8 feet, with impromptu "boardwalks" inside and outside the perimeter, though passers-by can certainly walk in the sand if they choose. Embedded in the boxes are photos depicting frozen moments in extre ... More >>

New Reviews

Cafe Setareh; Gray Matters; Nishabd; The Ultimate Gift

Man On Man Action

Its Spartan hotties versus Persian trannies in Zack Snyders far-too-faithful Frank Miller adaptation 300

You Are Like a Hurricane

Local nature filmmaker fixed his lens on Louisiana wetlands. Then along came Katrina...

New Reviews

Becket; Constellation; Hurricane on the Bayou; The Messengers

Special Screenings

Movie(s) of the Week: A Bucket of Blood and Bride of Frankenstein

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Special Screenings

Movie of the week: Scarface

Dumbo and Dumber

Handlers give circus Elephants the bullhook

New Reviews

The Ant Bully; Azumi; John Tucker Must Die; The Motel; Mysteries of Egypt

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg/Zemeckis Monster House

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

In 1969, the Argonaut carried the youngest crew in history to victory in the Transpacific Yacht Race. In next year's race, Disney aims to change history. Through the Morning Light Project and Pacific High Productions, Disney has a threefold mission: 1) assemble the youngest, most diverse team the ra ... More >>

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: The Big Lebowski

Special Screenings

Special anemic holiday week edition!

Dignified and Old

In Praise of. . .Disneyland?

It may not be the happiest place on Earth, but its damn close

Brand X

Best of OC, 2001

Timmy The Lonely Satellite Looks Down Upon This Ever-Changing, Rootless Thing

IMAXed Out

'NSync or 'NStynk?

Two views of Bigger Than Live

You Say You Want an Evolution

IMAXs Galapagos offers a rare view

Diary of a Mad Coffeehouse

The year in soulful scribbles

Snow Job

The definition of softcore weather porn

Extreme Madness

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

Easy to Be Hardy

Roughing it without all the rough edges