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The Runaways
A grittily femme perspective governs this otherwise conventional music saga about the Runaways, America's first all-girl rock band.
"...and Fanning's Currie looks and feels like sunny, Southern California doll parts stitched together to form a melancholy femme-bomb..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Animation
This year's five nominees for the best animated short Oscar are available for viewing. This year’s five Academy Award-nominated animated shorts include “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” the latest stop-motion Claymation piece from Nick Park and Aardman; “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” by Nicky Phelan; “The Lady and the Reaper" by Recio García; “French Roast” by Fabrice O. Joubert; and the winning “Logorama” by the H5 collective.
"...shot of a Malibu rum bottle, “Logorama” reconstructs Southern California via the brands that bombard us to the point..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Single Man
Tom Ford ditched fashion designing for filmmaking with this smart adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood story about a grieving gay man in 1962 California.
"...British ex-pat teaching at a university in sunny Southern California in 1962. A closeted homosexual by cultural necessity, he's..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crossing Over
Various characters who are ensnared within the dogged machinery of the American immigration system become the subjects of this multistrand narrative.
"...at night after busting a Mexican seamstress in a California factory, whose son will be cast to the streets..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

K.D., Barack, and Me
K.D. reaches a watershed and Barack comes out.
"...marriage propositions are on the ballot in Florida and California. And for Lang, the political is personal. "When it..."

Nov. 4, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Burn Up That Quarter Mile
Jan & Dean mark the endless summer with a new compilation
"...Singles is the first effort to compile the Southern California pair’s ride up the charts via their Liberty releases...."

Sept. 2, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Bottle Shock
Stuff the cork back in: This wine movie was sold before its time.
"...this true story of how the wines of Northern California shattered France's oenological hauteur in a blind taste-testing in..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Medi-Pot Patients Win Again
California judges say medi-pot laws don't conflict with federal pot prohibition
"...California's Fourth District Court of Appeals this week ruled that..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Mayor of Washington Boulevard
The first Beach Boys' solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, washes back ashore after more than three decades
"...still has a shine. Dennis Wilson helped create the California dream. As a youngster, he was a natural athlete,..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Darfur Now
For all the film’s rallying efforts, its meandering structure and absence of a central focal point result in a film about genocide that is, as unbelievable as it sounds, kind of boring.
"...The varied characters include a 24-year-old activist working in California in the divestment campaign, the prosecutor of the International..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

September Dawn
This movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, during which local Mormons murdered 120 members of a wagon train heading West, reeks of ulterior motives.
"...Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, in which some 120 California-bound settlers are murdered by Mormon zealots near Cedar City,..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Next
Nicolas Cage plays a man who can see into the future – a talent the FBI wants to put to use capturing terrorists.
"...weapon and threaten to detonate it somewhere in Southern California. (Why? Because the movie needs them to.) FBI agent..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Factory Girl
Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.
"...reflecting on her past while going through rehab in California. In between, the film accurately traces her doomed trajectory..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alpha Dog
It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
"...about tits and ass and drugs and guns and California muscle cars and busting up house parties with kung..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

No Medi-Pot for the Feds
"...The first federal prosecution of a California medi-pot patient-caregiver in three years began last week in..."

Nov. 20, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Vote Pot!
"...in favor of drug-law reform. Specifically, voters in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and South Dakota will weigh in..."

Nov. 7, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Tales of the Rat Fink
Ron Mann's Tales of the Rat Fink is an ebullient survey of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's life that revs along with the zest a souped-up hot rod.
"...sustainable lifestyles that stars advocate Woody Harrelson. Roth, the California gearhead and artist, springs to life here in ways..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hills Have Eyes
This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.
"...outrageous: An all-American family (i.e., squabbling, miserable) headed to California on an RV vacation is waylaid while passing through..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fog
This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.
"...(from a script by Cooper Layne) posits a seaside California fishing village that, on the eve of its centennial,..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Oscar winner documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.
"...the price of oil on the West Coast as California suffered the consequences with rolling blackouts. In the course..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Day Without a Mexican
What if Californians awoke one day to discover that all the Mexicans in the state had mysteriously vanished overnight?
"...The premise is great: What if the residents of California awoke one day to discover all the Mexicans in..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Quantum physics, intent and possibility, science and fantasy … goofy cult or educational primer?
"...Special for the bastard offspring of mad scientists and California desert shamans. Matlin, for her part, gives the role..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
All sugar, no spice in this modern-day fairy tale
"...to say the film’s predecessor was realistic – geeky California girl finds out she’s really the princess of an..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Torque
Rev your engines: The first bike movie of the year is here.
"...Ford – a gangly, hot-tempered biker – returning to California from a self-imposed exile in Thailand, where he fled..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House of Sand and Fog
Moody and offbeat adaptation of Andre Dubus III bestseller heralds strong debut for new director and dandy performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
"...consequences. Kathy (Connelly) is a housecleaner who’s inherited a California bungalow with a tax problem. Behrani (Kingsley) is the..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Better Luck Tomorrow
"...future? Well, yeah, probably, at least in sunny Southern California among the first- and second-generation students who can get..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Malibu's Most Wanted
"...movie offers up Kennedy as Brad Gluckman, a blue-blood California teenager with a serious case of the wiggas and..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shanghai Knights
"...who is never at a loss for words. Wilson’s California-stoner delivery may be the film’s best joke, although it..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Pumpkin
"...through strange comedic country), is Carolyn McDuffy, a Southern California sorority princess who has the requisite Volkswagen Cabriolet, rich..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Salton Sea
"...made. It captures the paranoid subculture of the Southern California tweakers who spend their days and nights and days..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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