Val Kilmer has a long acting resume of impressive credentials. To many people, he is the quintessential Doc Holliday, Jim Morrison, Moses, etc. But for his current performance, he presents himself in the persona of non other than Mark Twain for an evening of comedy! Cinema Twain is a film, which features Kilmer in the […]
Film and TV
Now See This: North By Northwest @Regency South Coast Village
You gotta love a good Hitchcock thriller, especially if its among one of the greatest thrillers of all time. Cary Grant stars as an advertising executive mistaken for a spy, and after being discredited as a drunk and wrongfully accused for murder by his assailants, begins to investigate a mysterious organization’s plot to steal government […]
Now See This: Wanda @The Frida Cinema
In 1970, at a time when no women were allowed to direct mainstream Hollywood films, female filmmakers pushed forward in independent and underground cinema. Barbara Loden, who’d honed her directing and acting chops on the stage, was offered $100,000 to write and direct her own film. The result was a semi-autobiographical cinema vérité masterpiece (in […]
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman Strikes A Nerve in the Racial Divide of the Present
It’s no coincidence that Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman opens on the one year anniversary of the Charlottesville, Virginia white supremacist marches, where legions of young white men took to the streets holding tiki torches in the name of “white power.” The marches demonstrated the newfound boldness in the movement and resulted in a number of clashes […]
Now See This: A League of Their Own @Yorba Regional Park
OC Parks Sunset Cinema film series continues its summer blitz, bringing family classic films to the big screen in Yorba Regional Park. This Friday, root for your favorite knuckleballers, fielders and basewomen in director Penny Marshall’s hit sports comedy A League of Their Own. Inspired by the true story of the first all-female professional baseball […]
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Like a Phoenix From the Ashes [Special Screenings, Aug. 16-23]
Eighth Grade. Standup comic Bo Burnham’s writing and directing feature debut is about an introverted girl (Elsie Fisher) trying to survive her disastrous eighth grade year before she is off to high school. Directors Cut Cinema at Regency Rancho Niguel, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-0446. Thurs., Aug. 16, 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:30, […]
To Out or Not to Out: Should Dead Movie Stars Stay in the Closet?
Outing celebrities is a history fraught with debate. Over the past 30 years (and certainly before), gay and straight publications engaged in the practice fairly regularly, albeit with different aims. For hetero news, outing was tabloid fodder, salacious and good for newsstand pickups (of papers, not twinks). For gay publications, the goal was more about […]
Nico, 1988 Resurrects the Spirit of the German Singer
Is it incendiary to say that, when comparing both of their post-Velvet Underground stints, I prefer Nico’s musical output much more than Lou Reed’s? Don’t harass me, music nerds—it’s just my opinion. But when we look at those we venerate in music history, Reed obviously got wider acclaim than his on-again, off-again collaborator. Nico—who started […]
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Only One Truth [Special Screenings, Aug. 9-16]
Eighth Grade. Standup comic Bo Burnham’s writing and directing feature debut is about an introverted girl (Elsie Fisher) trying to survive her disastrous eighth-grade year before she is off to high school. Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435. Thurs., Aug. 9, 1, 3:15, 6 & 8:15 p.m. $8.50-$11.50. Isle of Dogs. […]
Now See This: Charade @Casa Romantica
For whatever reason, Charade isn’t one of the films that pops to mind when you think of its stars, Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant (maybe Breakfast at Tiffany’s and North By Northwest came to mind). However, the 1963 film from director Stanley Donen is a delightful caper that pits the terminally classy duo as a […]
Hungary’s 1945 Is a Horror Masterpiece
The new Hungarian film 1945 has everything going for it that a great monster movie does. It begins with simple villagers going about their lives, preparing for a joyous wedding celebration on a warm summer evening. The train stationmaster recognizes a potential existential threat from the outside that ever-so-slowly inches toward town. When he warns […]
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Locked and Loaded [Special Screenings, Aug. 2-9]
Eighth Grade. Standup comic Bo Burnham’s writing and directing feature debut is about an introverted girl (Elsie Fisher) trying to survive her disastrous eighth-grade year before she is off to high school. Regency Directors Cut Cinema at Regency Rancho Niguel, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-0446. Thurs., Aug. 2, 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:30, […]
Now See This: Vans Movie Night at U.S. Open of Surfing
The Vans U.S. Open of Surfing not only brings watermen and waterwomen to Huntington Beach but free movies. They run 7 -9 p.m. in the amphitheater. The scheduled: Saturday, July 28: Can’t Steal Our Vibe, which features pro surfers Michael February and the Gudauskas Brothers Sunday, July 29: Lilo & Stitch Monday, July 30: The […]
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Reveals the Sexy Side of Old Tinsel Town Celebs
Old Hollywood gossip and underground history are juicier than any Douglas Sirk melodrama, and Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood provides that scandalous sugar high you’re looking for. Its subject, Scotty Bowers, is a former hustler who, during the 1940s and ’50s, provided private space for Hollywood’s straight and gay celebrity […]
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Just a Hunka, Hunka . . . [Special Screenings, July 26-Aug. 2]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? This documentary takes you to the heart of the late Fred Rogers’ career, which he dedicated to how best to speak with young kids even beyond Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, his PBS children’s show. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701. Thurs., July 26, 11:45 a.m., […]
New See This: Loving Vincent @Huntington Beach Art Center
The award-winning 2017 film Loving Vincent was released in theaters for such a woefully limited amount of time, but luckily there’s a chance to catch this breathlessly amazing flick on a big screen for one night at Huntington Beach Art Center. A biography of tortured but brilliant painter Vincent Van Gogh, this animated film is […]
Now See This: Blue Velvet @The Frida Cinema
Eighteen years into the new millennium, and director David Lynch is still one of the most surreal, insanely unconventional filmmakers working today. If you’re still scratching your heads about the latest season of Twin Peaks (which, by the way, deserves some serious Emmys love), indulge in this other, freakier feature that also stars Kyle Maclachlan, […]
Eighth Grade Is a Top-Notch Look at Teen Angst in the Social-Media Age
Anyone who has ever cringed their way through adolescence can tell you that eighth grade—that in-between age when you’re not a child anymore and not yet a full teenager—is hell. It’s hard to recall any movie that has tapped into that agony as astutely as Bo Burnham’s comedy Eighth Grade. Starring Elsie Fisher as a […]
Now See This: Moonrise Kingdom @Segerstrom Center
The droll, mock-heroic adventures of star-crossed lovers imagining then living their own mini-epic story gets told on the really big screen—the wall of the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza— in Segerstrom’s free outdoor summer movie series. A favorite Wes Anderson film, appropriate (mostly) for families, Moonrise Kingdom is meticulous, weird, charming and smart, featuring a […]
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How Many Gigawatts Was That? [Special Screenings, July 19-26]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? This documentary takes you to the heart of the late Fred Rogers’ career, which he dedicated to how best to speak with young kids, even beyond Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, his PBS children’s show. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701. Thurs., July 19, 11:45 a.m., […]
Dana Rohrabacher Turns Up in Sacha Baron Cohen Send-up on Arming Toddlers
UPDATE NO. 3, JULY 17, 10:48 A.M.: Harley Rouda, the Laguna Beach Democrat attempting to defeat Representative Dana Rohrabacher in November, issued a statement this morning concerning the 48th congressional district incumbent’s appearance on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?: HARLEY ROUDA RESPONDS TO ROHRABACHER’S PUSH TO ARM CHILDREN NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Today, Harley Rouda […]