What does it take to make a good movie these days? Money? Star power? A dedicated auteur? A pastiche of ideas that resemble a movie? On the surface, The Nice Guys looks like a movie. It’s got Warner Brothers’ money. It’s got … Continue reading THE NICE GUYS
If you really want to see something spectacular this summer, head to Paris and take a trip up the Eiffel Tower. And don’t skimp—shell out those extra Euros and head all the way to the top. It’s worth it. Up … Continue reading FRANCOFONIA
The tower itself is a pinnacle of engineering. Rising 40 stories into the air, it curves slightly inward, like a finger curling towards the palm, as do the other four towers currently being erected—like the concrete hand of a god. … Continue reading HIGH-RISE
What makes up a city? The people? The locale? The flavor of the food, the smell of the streets, the sounds of the crowd? When author Reyner Banham concluded his exhaustive study of the city of Los Angeles in The Architecture … Continue reading RIO, I LOVE YOU
If there is anything I have learned from watching movies, never, ever take that one last job. No matter how much money, no matter how great the chance of fame, no matter the guilt involved, never take that last gig. … Continue reading GREEN ROOM
There is no greater film festival for classic movie lovers than the TCM Classic Film Fest in Hollywood, California. Every spring, throngs of moviegoers descend on the honorary capital of moviemaking for a feverish, bleary-eyed three-day celebration of the moving … Continue reading TCM Classic Film Festival — 2016
Miles Davis was a man of few words but an endless stream of music. Though the story of Davis’s meeting with then First Lady Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 is most likely false, the punch line still … Continue reading MILES AHEAD
A dirty, but honorable, private eye with a predilection for strippers, Samson (John Hawkes), is inextricably connected to Dorothy (Crystal Reed), a stripper with a heart of gold, who winds up strangled to death in Elysian Park. From there, Samson’s … Continue reading TOO LATE
If there is a truth in life, it is a simple one: everybody is trying their best. It’s an often difficult truth to accept because it is far too easy to criticize one another for their shortcomings, mistakes, and screw-ups. … Continue reading LOUDER THAN BOMBS
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