films
“Film” and “Notfilm”: Playwright Samuel Beckett meets Buster Keaton
April 1, 2016On the face of it, a collaboration between Beckett and Buster Keaton sounds like an unlikely alliance of artists.
Read more“Batman v Superman”: It’s hero vs. hero, but the audience loses
March 31, 2016This film is the cinematic equivalent of a child slamming two plastic toy dinosaurs into one another.
Read moreOpen letter to Motion Picture Academy, L.A. Women’s Theater Festival
March 28, 2016"Dear Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, you have come under intense criticism for Cloroxing this year's Oscars..."
Read moreLast tango in Kabul? “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” and the embedded reporter
March 10, 2016"Tango" perpetuates that age-old Hollywood tradition of setting stories in the "exotic" Third World.
Read morePolitical thriller with music about Japanese HIV scandal impresses L.A.
March 10, 2016Fast moving, eye-catching, colorful, deeply affecting, cathartic, and redemptive.
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