Sitting at a restaurant perusing their menus, forty year old pals Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), and Ivan Schrank (Rhys Ifans), reconnect after years apart. Inevitably, they end up discussing the strange sadness that both of [...]
The movie, Up in the Air, has a consistent message in its ironic, playful, and as an arbiter and ultimate take on our collective plight as a nation in its plot. It’s that our destiny [...]
The Hurt Locker, won Best Picture for 2010,. It’s a contemporary war movie that accurately portrays the reality of today’s type of warfare. Its gravitas is in its story and from the movie’s main elements [...]
While covering the Sunday Afternoon at the Theatre series, its depressing seeing these historic buildings go to waste. More accurately, they’re literally wasting away. Because Los Angeles’ history with film and Theatre is intertwined with [...]
The Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre with its fanciful Beaux Arts façade, first opened on February 15, 1926 at a cost of $2 million dollars. Over the years, the Orpheum Theatre has played host to an [...]
With three famous and larger than life Rock & Roll guitarists, Jack White of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, and The Edge of U2, together in [...]
By now, you all know the drill! We eagerly put the television on to watch the Oscar’s live, and hope to watch an exciting and eventful Oscar’s event. Of course, seeing what the celebrities are [...]
In 1941 they called the film of man turned animal, The Wolf Man. Shot in black and white, the film is still considered a classic of the horror genre today. The original Wolfman starred Lon [...]
Built in 1921, The State Theatre was formally part of the Loews Theatre group. Founded by Marcus Loew in 1904, the chain was the largest movie theatre group until 2006. To provide films for his [...]
Surprise, surprise, the big news is here! Yes, the Oscar nominations are in, and yes we’ve got the dirt for you. If you haven’t already heard, there are ten – yes, folks – ten nominees [...]
As the oldest remaining Orpheum theatre in the US, the Palace Theatre, located at 630 S. Broadway Ave. in downtown Los Angeles, was built in 1911. Genesis of the Orpheum Theaters The Orpheum Circuit was [...]
A Single Man marks the feature film directorial debut of Tom Ford. So, who the hell is Tom Ford? More than a few film-goers may have been asking themselves that very same question in recent [...]
Imagine if you were alive circa 1932. Chances are you would have spent Sunday Afternoons at either of these theaters, located south of 5th, on Broadway: The Roxie (which replaced Quinn’s Superba theatre); Clune’s Broadway [...]
Los Angeles used to have a thriving theater area located in downtown known as the Broadway Corridor. It consists of twelve theaters, each with their own distinct architecture, history, and character. They all played a [...]
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