One of the ideas the festival is heavily pushing this year is that for every movie you attend that you planned on seeing, you should go to another one you don’t know anything about, or might not be inclined to go to normally.
I tend to do this sometimes when I attend something simply because it’s playing at the right time, and thus found myself in BAJO JUAREZ, a movie with the all-lowercase secondary title of “the city devouring its daughters.” It’s a documentary about Juarez, a Mexi
I AM LEGEND
Will Smith has been a legend before onscreen, but while Bagger Vance carried golf clubs for the white man, the new legendary Will shoots white people. Really white people. Mutants, in fact, who got that way due to a cure for cancer that went a little awry (all Emma Thompson's fault, as it turns out), turning every human being into a super-charged chemotherapy victim, sort of like the singer from Midnight Oil. Debate amongst yourselves whether they count as vampires or zombies – th
Edwards University Town Center 6 is billing itself as Coen Brothers Central this week as the Irvine theater will have two prints of the new film Burn After Reading when it opens Friday. Advance tickets are on sale now, and it's a sure bet University will have no trouble filling seats considering writer/director brothers Joel and Ethan had developed a legion of hardcore fans long before No Country for Old Men won the last best picture Oscar. But that isn't stopping the theater from churning out e
The newly renovated It's a Small World opens to the public today at Disneyland, where riders experience updated international doll costumes (so, goodbye "ooga-booga" Africans?), the integration of several new "classic" Disney characters (like, uh, Aladdin?) and renovated boats that had been long overdue for repairs (to make them better ply the stream of baby tears, pixie runoff and guest credit-card indebtedness holding them up).
The slow boat to China dolls, as well as replicants of
Where bird is the Eternal Word...Recently, a reader wrote to complain about my choice of Aloha BBQ as the best restaurant in Mission Viejo for my book, Orange County: A Personal History. Her choice of Capriccio's wasn't better--really, Aloha's main competition is Hatam. But the email got me thinking about those few, those proud, those restaurants that have existed for decades that, while not exactly the best in quality anymore, nevertheless are icons in their respective city, places one must
