Archive for Film

Joaquin Phoenix’s Movie “I’m Still Here” is a Hoax

Jan 27, 2012 by

Gee, as if that’s a real shocker. And frankly, if anybody really cares, well that’s their problem. For anyone not familiar with the latest antics of these two Dynamic Duo morons, producer Casey Affleck and [...]

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Tom Cruise has taken over Beverly Hills – Literally!

Jan 26, 2012 by

A New Top Ten List for Tom Cruise Movies. Hands down, his take-down of the City of Beverly Hills has now taken the Number One Spot: 10. Tom’s bartending scene from “Cocktail”: Tom played an [...]

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The 84th Annual 2012 Oscars Nominees

Jan 24, 2012 by

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences paid homage Tuesday morning to the early days of cinema by bestowing the lion’s share of Oscar nominations on two films that are valentines to the early [...]

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100 Years of Paramount Pictures sponsored by Film Independent & LACMA

Jan 23, 2012 by

  100 Years of Paramount Pictures January 26 For the next five months, on the last Thursday of each month, Film Independent at LACMA invites you to a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Paramount [...]

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The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award Nominations

Dec 27, 2011

The Screen Actor Guild (SAG)Awards is the only Awards show that exclusively honors performers, and it presents thirteen awards for acting in film and television, including both individual performances as well as on the work [...]

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Orange County’s Movie History

Dec 23, 2011

Can we rewind and fast forward? That seems to be the movie question in Orange County. Right now Orange County has a small core of historic movie theaters that we recently explored, and a fresh [...]

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Orange County’s Historic Movie Theaters

Dec 09, 2011

Step closer. Remember when the lights dimmed, the red velvet curtains parted, and the organist played the first notes in these historic keepers of movie magic. As I stood in front of the historic Bay [...]

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Sundance Film Festival Entrees Announced

Dec 05, 2011

Between all the Hollywood scmhoozing, partying, sex, booze and Rock’n’Roll serious distribution and acquisition deals are taking place at this years’ annual Sundance Film Festival. “Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect [...]

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Henry’s Crime

Oct 18, 2011

The movie, Henry’s Crime, is a sardonic and idiosyncratic movie that masquerades as an illusion of comedy; but is really a cover for life’s perpetual misfortune and subsequent redemption, by being in the wrong place [...]

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Wednesday Night Films are Coming to the Million Dollar Theater

Sep 16, 2011

Beginning on October 5th, and running every Wednesday–except on November 2nd until December 21st, UCLA Film & Television Archive will be hosting a unique motion picture entertainment in Downtown Los Angeles. The venue of the [...]

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“Soul Surfer”; The Bethany Hamilton Saga

Aug 29, 2011

This movie is based on the life and subsequent tragedy which befell upon a young, gifted and quite beautiful surfer, Bethany Hamilton, whose left arm was bitten off by a shark—a surfer’s worst nightmare—or for [...]

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The Long and Winding History of the Viper Room

Aug 13, 2011

In the 1940s it was called the Melody Room (a jazz club frequented by gangster Bugsy Siegel), in the 1970s, it was called Flithy McNasty (a Hell’s Angel hangout), by the 80s, it was known [...]

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A TASCHEN Publication Exclusive: Dennis Hopper Photographs 1961-1967

Aug 02, 2011

Dennis Hopper chose to take pictures of the world of his making and that he chose to live—movie star, arts benefactor and creator of innovative art of topics, content and the people whom he felt [...]

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Two Stone Gates Guard Hollywoodland

Jul 27, 2011

You might drive by it and not even see it, just as I did the first two times I passed them by, unless you already know that they’re there and happen to be looking for [...]

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