Over at LA Weekly.com. Sample:

There may be things to complain about this year, like the parking, which doesn’t look to be quite as convenient as last year, and may be a large part of the reason that most of the movies don’t start till late afternoon. Though even that I can’t complain about as far [...]

“Early on in the movie, Myers’ guru character, Pitka, is doing yoga and literally sticks his head up his own rear end. There could be no more apt metaphor for what ensues onscreen”

read it all.

The Los Angeles Film Festival starts today in Westwood, through the 29th. Barring any major disasters, I’ll be there every day except this coming Saturday. It’s probably my second favorite time of year, after Comic-Con, and a whole lot cheaper.

LA Weekly has a big preview in the current issue, with critics giving advance brief assessments [...]

…and six years old today!

Methinks it’s time for my littlest bro to sign my other arm…

SILENT RUNNING is one of those sci-fi films that I think more people know about than have actually seen. I’ve certainly been aware of it a long time, but only finally got around to seeing it last night as an on-demand rental from Netflix. A good option, that, but then I’m more used than some [...]

Young Marky Mark would have called this guy by an anti-gay slur, I bet…

Every time I see the word “happening” used as a gerund, I think of the late wrestling announcer Gorilla Monsoon, who always pronounced it happaneen, and would say it about everything. Every big event, even some that quite obviously were not sold [...]

Here’s to the “Absent-Minded Professor”

photo by Elena Luz Gomez.

I’ll write a review a little later, but I wanted to point out a problem so glaring it appears in a commonly disseminated production still.

Take a look at the photo below. See anything that maybe should have been fixed?

Look closely. Maybe my eye is just extra-trained, but it’s patently fucking obvious to me (and more [...]

Quite a sudden shock, that.

Who’ll fill the footsteps of the old guard of newsmen? None of the young ‘uns seem up to it, except maybe Brian Williams.