Subject: Napoleon Dynamite

• LAFF 2007: Bluey, Da Ba Dee Da Ba Dah

  Raise your hand if you thought Gavin Rossdale of Bush could be a decent actor. Or a decent anything. Yeah, he got his face melted in Constantine, but that proved nothing. But Mr. Gwen Stefani really shows something in HOW TO ROB A BANK, as a pill-popping criminal named Simon (after Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran, as it turns out), who apparently didn’t get the memo that “LOVE” and “HATE” tattoos on the fingers went out of style years ago (as per his own lyrics, "love and hate, get it wro

  June 29, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 8-3-07

  HOT ROD It's not exactly going out on a limb to say that Andy Samberg has been the best addition to the Saturday Night Live cast in a long time – he's been the main reason that for the first time since the dawn of the Internet age, fans actually started downloading video from the show. While Lorne Michaels still likes to try to force repetitive gags down our throats, “Dick in a Box” and “Chronic-What?-cles of Narnia” became oft-repeated catchphrases because people actually thought the

  August 3, 2007

• Mike Relm, Detroit Bar, August 10, 2007

  Mike Relm looks like Central Casting's idea of an IT geek. But in reality he's a San Francisco-based laptop disc/video jockey who rocks parties with a rather shocking ferocity. Relm’s like a West Coast Girl Talk, but with shit-hot scratching and graphic skills. The Relm m.o. is to take familiar songs—mostly pop, rock, hip-hop and club bangers—and add furiously harsh scratching and deft beat-juggling to them, and then synch up the sounds to video images on a screen to his left. Sometimes

  August 14, 2007

• NBFF: Concrete translations, Indian burns

  Okay, filmgoers, it's time for a linguistics lesson. CEMENTO ARMATO is the title of an Italian film. In English, would you call that movie... (a) ARMORED CEMENT (b) CONCRETE ROMANCE (c) both of the above NBFF has opted for (c). But which is it really? IMDB says (b) is the international English title, but use of an online translator indicates that (a) is a more accurate translation. In the film itself, the line is delivered by a crime boss to describe the city outside his window as being a

  April 28, 2008

• Last Night: Yaz, Psychedelic Furs @ Pacific Amphitheater

  Yaz, Psychedelic Furs at Pacific Amphitheater on July 24, 2008 Better Than: trying to find that 1980's cassette mix tape in your garage. Download: Nobody's Diary (Origin of Essex Remix) from the Official Yaz Homepage "You have been brilliant, we have been Yaz.". Alison Moyet (Vocals) couldn't have said it any better as Yaz closed out their brief tour of the U.S. at the Pacific Amphitheater. The Psychedelic Furs rolled out their impressive collection of hits to warm up the enthusiastic crowd

  July 25, 2008

• Letters

  October 14, 2004

• From Newport Beach Film Festival to Tribeca for Harbor High Theater Freak-Turned-Filmmaker

  Courtesy of Plug Ugly FilmsStraight from the horse's mouth with Michael Slàdek.Though Norma Desmond only lived at the cineplex (and now Netflix), she famously said, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." Filmmaker and one-time Newport Beach resident Michael Slàdek is not yet big, but he is turning the phrase uttered by Sunset Boulevard's gloriously spaced-out Gloria Swanson on its head. For him, it's the film festivals that got big.Five years after Slàdek's debut feature, Devils Are Dr

  March 24, 2009

• On-Sale Saturday: Lucinda Williams, Gogol Bordello, More

  Alt-country icon Lucinda Williams at the House of Blues in Anaheim is just one of the shows going on sale tomorrow. Exciting!

  March 27, 2009

• Bicycle Races Are Coming Your Way at Santa Ana's Go, Rilla! Gallery

  August 28, 2008

• Tae Kwon Do Comedy 'The Foot Fist Way' Stars a Truly Cringe-Tastic Danny McBride

  May 29, 2008

• Twin Cities Strut

  Morris Day and the Time

  February 15, 2007

• Sorrow Floats

  May 4, 2006

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Eagle Vs. Shark, Ratatouille, Sicko, Strike

  June 28, 2007

• Ten for the Money

  There are more than 182 features at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Here are 10 weve seen

  April 19, 2007

• Fight Club

  How I learned self-defense from an anti-immigrant group and lived to write about it

  April 5, 2007

• Men Behaving Badly

  September 28, 2006

• Tortilla Flat

  June 15, 2006

• Get Inside!

  Your three-month forecast of the summers top movies

  May 25, 2006

• Beauty at Buchenwald

  May 11, 2006

• New Reviews

  April 6, 2006

• The Streets of San Francisco

  March 9, 2006

• The Sex Machine

  October 13, 2005

• Nice Package

  September 15, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  June 2, 2005

• Get Your Geek On

  April 14, 2005

• Living in Oblivion

  January 27, 2005

• Have Yourself a Celluloid Little Christmas

  December 16, 2004

• Geek Implosion

  June 10, 2004

• Missionary Positioning

  January 29, 2004

• Last Night: Friendly Fires at The Glass House

  ​Last Night: Friendly Fires at The Glass House with The Phenomenal Handclap Band.Better Than: An aerobics lesson with Richard Simmons.Download: "Jump in the Pool" (Thin White Duke Remix) by Friendly Fires.   Nearing the end of an hour-long set drenched in sweat, synths and hip-tastic dance moves, Friendly Fires front man Ed Macfarlane pointed his boyishly perplexed stare at room full of fans at The Glass House. Besides the fact that he and his band had just squeezed the last drop of sound

  August 24, 2009