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A Night at the Oscars. Enjoy an evening with hosts Robert Kline and Stephanie Heredia, who present an Oscars pre-party with a glimpse behind the scenes of this year’s nominated films and what it takes to win the statue. Regency San Juan Capistrano, 26762 Verdugo St., San Juan Capistrano, (949) 661-3456. Thurs., March 1, 6:30 […]
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Dan Savage’s Hump! Film Fest Returns to Long Beach
For years, decades even, ocweekly.com and the back pages of our dead-tree edition have featured the sex-and-relationship-advice column Savage Love. Think ¡Ask a Mexican!, only with more fluids from naughty bits. (Dan Savage and Gustavo Arellano even swapped columns once.) Savage, an openly gay father and husband, as well as editorial director of Seattle’s savage […]
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Oh, Baby! [Special Screenings, Feb. 22-March 1]
Call Me By Your Name. Charming American doctoral student Oliver (The Social Network’s Armie Hammer) goes to an Italian villa to serve as the annual summer intern for an eminent Greco-Roman culture professor (Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Stuhlbarg). But Oliver and the professor’s son Elio (Timothe Chalamet of Interstellar and Homeland) fall in love. Director Luca […]
Marvel’s Black Panther Is a Blockbuster Fit for a King
The amount of hype surrounding the release of the latest Marvel superhero film has reached levels not seen for blockbuster films in years. So I won’t bury the lede here: Black Panther is definitely worth all the praise it has received so far—and then some. Much of what makes the film a success can be […]
Connect the Dolts: Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels and Octomom
Follow the bouncing, um … Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom President Donald Trump’s personal attorney acknowledged paying $130,000 just before Election Day, first shared details of her affair to Nik Richie of the gossip site The Dirty. Richie, who promptly posted the story about Daniels’ fling with the then-star of The Apprentice reality show, […]
![Everything Concerns Dolly Levi [Special Screenings, Feb. 15-22]](https://www.ocweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/screenings-hello-dolly_20th-century-fox-1-348x180.jpg)
Everything Concerns Dolly Levi [Special Screenings, Feb. 15-22]
Oscar Nominated Short Films. Separate screenings feature Academy Award-nominated short films in animation, documentary and live-action categories. Best Animated Short Film nominees are: Glen Keane’s Dear Basketball; Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata’s Negative Space; Dave Mullins’ Lou; Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer’s Revolting Rhymes; and Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Claire, Theophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon […]
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days Screening Marks 75th Anniversary of Her Execution
Twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Christoph Probst were found guilty of treason and condemned to death in Germany on Feb. 22, 1943. They were all beheaded by a guillotine in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison only a few hours later. To commemorate Sophie Scholl’s death and the events leading up to it 75 […]
And Now a Message from PBS SoCal’s Andrew Russell on Trump’s Budget
Andrew Russell President & CEO PBS SoCal Costa Mesa, CA Dear friends, This week, the President released to Congress his annual budget, which recommends eliminating funding for public media. Specifically, the budget proposes to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes critical seed funding to PBS SoCal and other public television and radio stations […]
2018 Lewbowski Fest Will Roll into Fountain Bowl Again
Raise a White Russian and toast the return of the Lewbowski Fest to Fountain Valley this May. Twenty years of The Big Lebowski in the City of Angels will be celebrated May 25 at Lebowski Fest LA, which packs into the Wiltern a screening of the 1998 Coen Brothers’ stoner classic, music by the Kyle […]
The Tag-Along 2 Makes the Most of a Legend
Shortly after I arrived for what would prove to be a glorious summer living, working and partying in Hawaii as a 19-year-old, a mostly Polynesian co-worker at the airport car-rental lot warned me, “If you are driving at night and see a lady in a white dress alongside the road, don’t pick her up.” Years […]
Watch These Now: Oscars, Oscars, Oscars
Need to see a bunch to inform your viewing of the 90th Academy Awards on March 4? Check out these local screenings. Oscar Nominated Short Films. Separate screenings feature Academy Award-nominated short films in animation, documentary and live-action categories. Best Animated Short Film nominees are: Glen Keane’s Dear Basketball; Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata’s Negative […]
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car [Special Screenings, Feb. 8-15]
Poverty, Inc. Hope International, a nonprofit composed of Christ followers who fight global poverty, hosts a screening of this award-winning documentary that casts a critical eye on the rise of the West’s multibillion-dollar poverty industry. From TOMs Shoes to international adoptions, the film poses the uncomfortable question, “Could I be part of the problem?” There […]
Watch This Now: Socially Conscience Films
Poverty, Inc. Hope International, a nonprofit composed of Christ followers who fight global poverty, hosts a screening of this award-winning documentary that casts a critical eye on the rise of the West’s multi-billion-dollar poverty industry. From TOMs Shoes to international adoptions, the film poses the uncomfortable question: Could I be part of the […]
Trump: Drill, Baby, Drill; Laguna Beach Ralliers on Main Beach: Chill, Baby, Chill
Laguna Beach police estimate 300 people rallied on Main Beach Saturday against President Trump’s plan to reopen California’s coastline to offshore oil drilling. Participants held up signs, joined hands to form a line across the sand and listened to speakers who included actor and clean-ocean activist Ted Danson. The gathering was organized by a coalition […]
Super Bowl LII Halftime Tweets: Justin Timberlake Edition
From what we gathered from perusing Twitter for the last week, Super Bowl LII was pretty much a “battle of awful fans versus awful fans.” So fast-forward and picture if you will, Super Bowl Sunday and the New England Patriots taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. A lot of throwing, running, and scoring happened. But that’s […]
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Terrible Advice [Special Screenings, Feb. 1-8]
The Shape of Water. The Frida Cinema’s six-film Guillermo del Toro retrospective built to the engagement of his newest film, which received 13 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director). Elisa (Sally Hawkins, who is up for Best Actress) and Zelda (Octavia Spencer, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress) work as cleaning ladies […]
LUNAFEST Honors Women Filmmakers When Hollywood Can’t
Nearly a month ago, actress Natalie Portman made waves at the 75th Golden Globes when she presented the award for best director, noting the list of “all-male nominees.” The moment, which may have seemed gauche to some, was a clear statement of disapproval of the fact that, while plenty of men and women alike direct […]
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This Is the Dream! [Special Screenings, Jan. 25-Feb. 1]
Irvine International Film Festival. The seventh-annual event actually screens 70 short and feature-length films (whittled down from 1,400 submissions) in Costa Mesa as opposed to Irvine from Jan. 25 to Jan. 31. Features include Lasso, Evan Cecil’s slasher flick set at a remote rodeo; Flitzer (Streaker), Swiss-born German director Peter Luisi’s comedy; The Iconoclast, King […]
Online Petition Seeks to Toss Out Kobe Bryant’s Oscar Nomination
UPDATE, JAN. 24, 6:08 P.M.: Well, that was quick. About 24 hours after it was announced that Kobe Bryant’s Dear Basketball scored an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short, an online petition asking the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the nomination had 7,000 signatures. A 6 p.m. check showed 9,792 signatures, […]
Apache Warrior Humanizes the Iraq War
The documentary Apache Warrior is billed as having been “made with 100 percent unprecedented real footage, actual attack pilot gun tapes, multiple cameras and interviews. We researched hundreds of hours of footage in order to find this true story.” The aim, filmmakers add, is to take “the audience into the cockpit of a squadron of […]
Meghan King Edmonds is Leaving OC to Become Real Housewife
“I guess it’s time for me to become an actual real housewife of sorts. Oh, the irony!” —Meghan King Edmonds, in an announcement Tuesday that she is leaving The Real Housewives of Orange County The wife of former Angels outfielder Jim Edmonds, who slammed into the Big A wall in center so many times it […]
