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The 15 Greatest Original Film Scores From the Past Decade

By: Jaime-Paul Falcon Established musicians composing film scores is nothing new. Some of the best scores of the last 50 some odd years have come from pop stars: Dylan's score for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Danny Elfman's whole career and Queen's legendary Flash Gordon score. With the rise of vari ... More >>

The End of All Things, Except Narration In The Wall

Is this a film or an illustrated audiobook?

A Boy and His Drone In 'Oblivion'

Tom Cruise's new flick is grand until it's not

Tom Cruise Reaches

As the strapping Jack Reacher, the star scores

Com Truise's Sound Combines Lo-fi and Sci-fi

The beatsmith's latest album 'Galactic Melt' gives a Blade Runner edge to EDM

Tony Scott Remembered With Cinematic Tribute at Regency South Coast Village Theater

As the Los Angeles County coroner continues to probe the apparent suicide of Tony Scott, and a private memorial service is held this weekend, an Orange County theater is whipping up a cinematic tribute to the British-born director. Regency Theatres South Coast Village in Santa Ana presents "In App ... More >>

Did TomKat Miss Scientology Orange County's Boat to the New Civilization?

It appears that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached a divorce settlement that will keep their 6-year-old daughter Suri from the clutches of Xenu. Here's hoping that Katie can elude church spies and get on with her life, as folks in Orange County have done after escaping the organization. All th ... More >>

'Rock Of Ages': Aside From All the Singing, What Makes This Thing a Musical?

No matter what kind of musical it is, the director and charismatic cast belting out their lines in the production are beholden to certain format for it to be considered true to the genre. It doesn't matter if the music was written specifically for the stage. It doesn't matter if it is My Fair Lady ... More >>

'Rock of Ages,' or 'Hair Metal: The Musical'

Adam Shankman, et al. make you happy you missed the Sunset Strip, circa 1987

ROOMS: A Rock Romance

Chance Theater

'Ghost Protocol' Features a Man on a Mission

Tom Cruise, Bankable Movie Star, lives another day

Magnolia

Regency South Coast Village

Katy Perry and More Showgazing

[Mental Notes] Highlights from the U.S. Open of Surfing with Jimmy Eat World, plus the Yost's reopening with Unwritten Law

Jon Brion to Score Animated Thriller: Five Kick Ass Songs He Had a Hand In

​Indie film company Focus Features confirmed in June it had signed an agreement with multi-instrumentalist/producer extraordinaire Jon Brion who will score the  animated zombie thriller ParaNorman. The pic, which is being produced in conjunction with Portland-based animation company LAIKA, is ... More >>

Eight Films to Help You Prepare for the End of the World on May 21

​ For the last few months, a kooky religious group has been plastering North America with billboards and placards announcing that the world will end on May 21. Call us warped, but we're thrilled by the prospect of Armageddon. With millions of the faithful lifted skyward by the Rapture, their hom ... More >>

Berlin

Coach House

'The Romantics' Prove Romance Is Dead

At least as evidenced by this new Katie Holmes/Josh Duhamel/Anna Paquin/etc. ensemble pic

Ambiguous Action Heroine

Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy the otherwise-rote 'Salt'

Tom Cruise Keeps Talking All 'Knight and Day'

Always wondered what it would look like if Jason Bourne were a mouthy asshole? Wonder no more

To Do Tonight 1/12

Guitar Legend, 6 p.m.Almost as great as the Tom Cruise film Legend, but this has guitars, too! House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, CA; 714-778-2583"Fashionistas!" last call for entries from OCCCA Madly inspired garments, bravura sketches, elaborately finished works, and experimental art ... More >>

From Reverence to Rape: Hollywood Again Plunders Meaning From the Holocaust

Tom Cruise Plots to Kill Hitler in 'Valkyrie,' His Latest Impossible Mission

With 'Step Brothers,' Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. Still Don't Wanna Grow Up. And Thank God for That

The (OC) Metro

Berlin

Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford’s terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Kicking French Ass

District B13 puts American action movies to shame

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping todays kiddie-movie landscape

Cruise in Control

The Syracuse kid saves the world in style

This Newsrack Will Self- Destruct in Five Seconds...

Color us crazy, but we'd have thought someone would have raised an ethical concern or three after the Los Angeles County Sheriff's arson squad blew up an LA Times newsrack in Santa Clarita on Friday. The concern we refer to is not whether deputies were under orders from the Sheriff Lee Baca to get b ... More >>

New Reviews

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili; Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont; La Mujer de mi Hermano; Preaching to the Choir; Scary Movie 4, The Wild

Everything I Know . . .

. . . I Learned From Working in a Bar

Ordinary Girl

Theres something about Kelly Clarkson

Attack of the Big Head Floating in the Sky

As movies grow lamer, so do their posters

Starfire and Brimstone

In Steven Spielbergs War of the Worlds, an alien invasion brings mankind down to size

Mystery Scientology Theater

How War of the Worlds anticipated the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard

Tom Cruise Is Straight and Other Hollywood Conspiracies

Uri Dowbenkos Hoodwinked exposes the Masonic Zionist plot that is Tinseltown

Night Cruise

Michael Manns nerve-rattling Collateral

Lord of the Savages

The Last Samurai, The Missing revisit the tragi-romantic fate of the white Indian

Shadow Warriors

The Last Samurai gets lost in a tendentious haze

Vrooom!

Speedway revives our faith in humanity

Seeing Double

An eye for The Eye

The Outsiders

Son of Scary

Evil spawn of OCs Scariest People

Pre-Cognitive Dissonance

In Minority Report, the eyes have it

Everything Is Malo

Garcia Corderos Caribbean

War! Huh?

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

Odd Couple

Cruise meets Cruz in Vanilla Sky

Big Screen Blowouts

Prepare your bums for funky film fests

Mission: Possible

Peep Show

Is Stanley Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut the work of a genius?