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ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD

July 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD

The 9th film from Quentin Tarantino, aka ONCE UPON A TIME . . . IN HOLLYWOOD, takes us back to 1969, and a land of fragile dreams, transactional relationships, and the manifestation of the dark side of it all in the form of Charles Manson (Damon Herriman). Manson himself has but a cameo in the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1969, Charles Manson, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sharon Tate, Spaghetti western, stuntman

ALL NIGHTER — Gavin Wiesen Interview

March 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ALL NIGHTER — Gavin Wiesen Interview

I spoke with Gary Wiesen by phone on March 24, 2017, the day his film, ALL NIGHTER, opened in San Francisco. It’s his first comedy, but briskly executed with a true feel for not just the humor, but also the underlying pathos of a father seeking out his estranged daughter with the help of her… Read More »

Tagged With: Alec Puro, Annaleigh Tipton, banjo, bluegrass, Bob Seeger, club scene, collaboration, comedy, film score, Gavin Wiesen, hipster, Los Angeles, midlife crisis, missing daughter, nightlife, odd couple, Reece Miller, sound mix

THE MEDDLER

June 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE MEDDLER

(A version of this review first appeared in The New Fillmore) The complicated bond between mother and child has never had a better, a funnier, or a more heartwarming cinematic incarnation. Unconditional love and setting boundaries drive the comedy of THE MEDDLER. Written and directed by Loren Scafaria from her own experiences with an adoring… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, fried egg, Los Angeles, mother-daughter, starting over, widowhood

THE NICE GUYS

May 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE NICE GUYS

Shane Black has the gift of making films that are nail-bitingly suspenseful and wickedly funny at the same time. He did it with KISS KISS BANG BANG, and he’s done it again with THE NICE GUYS, a stylishly acerbic and decidedly hard-boiled neo-Noir pitting nihilism against idealism during the candy-colored decadence of 1977 Los Angeles.… Read More »

Tagged With: 1977, father-daughter, fractured ulna, Los Angeles, mystery, porn, private eye, violence

TOO LATE

April 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TOO LATE

Kierkegaard, noted Existentialist and proto-Absurdist, once opined that life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.  As a cinematic exploration of the tragic and comedic implications of that, there is Dennis Hauck’s wistful neo-Noir, TOO LATE, a film that employs a strategic insouciance as it nimbly plays with the time/space continuum… Read More »

Tagged With: 20-minute continuous takes, Los Angeles, murder, mystery, neo-noir, private eye, stripper, thriller

YOU’RE KILLING ME

March 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment

YOU’RE KILLING ME

YOU’RE KILLING ME is a wry and delightful black comedy of very bad manners, of which murder may not be the most heinous. In it, a group of hip twenty-somethings on the fringes of show biz negotiate awkward game nights, the finer points of dating etiquette, and the protocols of disposing of a dead body.… Read More »

Tagged With: dating, game night., LGBTQ, Los Angeles, murder, romance, serial killer, show biz

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

October 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION — Stanley Nelson

When Stanley Nelson started working on THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION, it was seven years ago and he thought the history of that movement was particularly relevant to those times. In 2015, he thinks it’s even more relevant. When I spoke to him on October 1, 2015, the echoes of the Panther movement in… Read More »

Tagged With: 10 point program, 1960s, 1970s, American history, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, Civil Rights Movement, COINTELPRO, dignity, Erica Huggins, FBI, Huey Newton, J. Edgar Hoover, Los Angeles, MacArthur Genius, Martin Luther King, New York, Oakland, open-carry, police brutality, Ralph Abernathy, revolution, San Francisco, Second Amendment, self-defense, Stanley Nelson

A Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

July 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A  Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

Inflated and grandiose, TERMINATOR GENISYS rethinks the Terminator mythos by coming up the novel notion that changing the past might have more than the intended repercussions. Hence, when the John Conner (Jason Clarke, near left) in this timeline sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney, far left) back to 1984 Los Angeles to save John’s mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke),… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, franchise reboot, John Conner, Kyle Reese, Los Angeles, narrative, robot, San Francisco, Sarah Conner, Sci-fi, Skynet, T-1000, T-800, Terminator, time travel

SAN ANDREAS’ Flight of Fancy

June 6, 2015 By 1 Comment

SAN ANDREAS’ Flight of Fancy

If nothing else, SAN ANDREAS is one of the finest advertisements ever made for the importance of emergency preparedness.  Those who survive the state-long earthquake that erupts on the eponymous fault line are either those who know to duck under a table or shelter by a solid wall, or those who are related to those… Read More »

Tagged With: blockbuster, Carla Gugino, disaster movie, Dwayne Johnson, Los Angeles, narrative, plate tectonics, SAN ANDREAS, San Francisco, The Rock, tsunami

DUCK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DUCK

DUCK is a bittersweet little film that charts an uneven course between comedy and drama. When it works, it is heartbreaking and heartwarming, when it doesn’t, it’s a shame. It doesn’t fit into any neat category, which might explain its limited theatrical release in 2007, but it’s that very thing that makes it a bright… Read More »

Tagged With: duck, global warming, isolation, Los Angeles, near future, social disorder

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