Film + TV
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DVD Pick of the Week: Henry V (1989) Blu-Ray
Over the years, many famous actors have made their mark by elevating the great dramas of William Shakespeare into the contemporary lexicon. The list of...
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2015 Academy Awards Odds
With awards season officially in full swing and the Oscars scheduled to take place next month, it’s time to start looking at the contenders and...
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Review: Appropriate Behavior needs fixing
When I first started this movie I didn’t quite know what to expect. Between the poster, which makes it seem like an indie drama, the...
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Review: American Sniper Is the True Story of One of America’s Deadliest Snipers
Today, at the 87th Academy Award nominations, American Sniper received six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best...
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DVD Pick of the Week: The Two Faces of January
Earlier this week, Warner Brothers announced that David Fincher would be directing an upcoming remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic ‘50s thriller Strangers on a Train....
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Sundance Institute to Honor Alejandro G. Iñárritu at Los Angeles Benefit in June 2015
Sundance Institute today announced that it will present Alejandro G. Iñárritu with its Vanguard Leadership Award at the fifth annual Sundance Institute benefit on June...
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The Godfather LIVE with Orchestra at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE Sweepstakes
The Godfather LIVE with Orchestra show comes to the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in downtown. We are giving away 2 tickets for this Saturday, Jan....
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Review: Big Eyes Falls Short of Expectations
Long before Tim Burton dissolved into self parody, cranking out two-hundred-million dollar Disney rides created solely as an excuse to have best-bud Johnny Depp and...
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Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Entertains
Having seen the first two films in the Hobbit series, the word that readily springs to mind to describe Peter Jackson’s much touted return to...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Stonehearst Asylum
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic 1845 short story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”, this year’s Stonehearst Asylum proved to a highly...
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DVD Pick of the Week: As Above, So Below
In recent years, genre purists have spewed venom at two particularly visible trends in horror filmmaking; one a sub-category in its own right, the other...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Nymphomaniac
In 1995, Danish auteur and consummate rabble-rouser Lars Von Trier and his friend Thomas Vinterberg founded the “Dogme 95” movement, an austere manifesto which bid...
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DVD Pick of the Week: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Despite the tireless work of generations of cineaste’ aesthetes, there exist precious few films that could truly have each one of their frames displayed in...
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Review: Foxcatcher Gets Lost in the Woods
Bennet Miller’s 2014 film, Foxcatcher, isn’t exactly what it seems. Miller, who’s track record is fairly impressive both critically and commercially, once again puts his...
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DVD Pick of the Week: The Vanishing
Widely considered one of the most unsettling films ever made, the 1988’s The Vanishing delivers in spades what most modern potboilers can only sheepishly ape:...
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Review: Listen Up Philip Falls on Deaf Ears
Listen Up Philip is Alex Ross Perry’s third feature film and his first to reach mainstream audiences. Set in modern day New York City, Listen...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
One might think that Hollywood has reached its cynical nadir with the recent speculative fervor over “universe building”, wherein studios cram pre-existing, vaguely related properties...
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BOO! Movies to Watch on Halloween Night
As even the must cursory glance at the aisles of your local drugstore will reveal, the Season of the Witch is upon us. Well, not...
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Review: The Judge Doesn’t Meet Expectations
In his recent Reddit AMA, Robert Downey Jr. was asked why the marketing campaign for his latest vehicle, The Judge, went from selling the film...
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Coming Soon: October 10th Movies to Watch
The Judge tells the returning home story of a big city lawyer, Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) who must reconnect broken family ties in order...
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The Age of Animation
In the past 15 years or so, animated television has gained a considerable amount of traction with American audiences. Matt Groening’s “The Simpsons” is always...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Live Die Repeat/Edge of Tomorrow
Let’s get this straight: the Tom Cruise film Universal released to theaters a mere four months ago was called Edge of Tomorrow. However, when that...
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Review: For Those In Peril Is a Somber, Moving Affair
Paul Wright’s debut feature film, For Those In Peril, is not for the faint of heart. And when I say that, what I’m really saying...
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Annabelle Fails to Summon The Conjuring
Annabelle tells the origin story of a demonically possessed doll that first freaked audiences out in last year’s smash-hit horror flick The Conjuring. While it...
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Review: Time Is Illmatic Is A Time Capsule to Early 90s Queens
In 1994, rapper, Nas (short for Nasir Jones), released Illmatic, an album that would come to be widely known as his best album to date...
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Alberto Arvelo Directs Édgar Ramírez as Símon Bolívar in The Liberator
For the first time in many years, Venezuela has produced an epic film on par with any Hollywood production. The Liberator arrives in theaters Oct....
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Camille LaBry West – Dancing Around the Eerie and the Dreamy
Camille LaBry West began her career selling greeting cards door to door at the age of 8, now decades later the entrepreneur and writer takes...
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