Bedside Manner: San Diego, California

Bedside Manner

"...Bedside. San Diego, California—or was this Los Angeles? It could have been Tucson. It’s definitely not..."

Oct. 25, 2010 Books Post by Belinda Acosta

The City of Angels, Air-Kissing Austin

Dispatch from the Los Angeles Film Festival

"...know how many of you know this, but the Los Angeles Film Festival loves us! For the last few..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Kyle Henry

¡Viva Maestro!

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel navigates Venezuela’s political upheaval

"...Not reviewed at press time. Stirring documentary follows Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel as he navigates the..."

April 15, 2022 Movie Review

Trans Chorus Sings Proud in Out Loud

Los Angeles group finds its voice at AGLIFF

"...Out Loud, a documentary that follows Trans Chorus of Los Angeles through their public concert debut at UCLA's Schoenberg..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Screens Feature by James Scott

Amazing Grace

The lost concert movie of the nights that Aretha Franklin recorded her iconic album

"...Yet maybe this long-incomplete concert movie may capture something closer...."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Michael King

MFKZ

Franco-Japanese anime spoofs rap culture clumsily

"...errands in Dark Meat City, a scummy mix of Los Angeles, San Diego, and São Paulo, where armed mobs..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Peppermint

Jennifer Garner assumes an Alias to get revenge

"...she uses to murder her way through half of Los Angeles...."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Kings

Interracial tensions boil over in 1990s L.A.

"...Set in Los Angeles during the years 1991-92, Ergüven uses the fomenting..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Den of Thieves

Bank heist rips off Heat for little gain

"...De Niro role) plotting an ambitious burglary of the Los Angeles Federal Reserve, and a messy police detective (Butler,..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Molly's Game

Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut plays a high stakes game with Jessica Chastain

"...competitive skier who had a heartbreaking mishap, moves to Los Angeles and falls in with a real estate agent,..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Gook

An unlikely friendship develops in 1992 Los Angeles

"...day: April 29, 1992, the first day of the Los Angeles riots that occurred in the wake of the..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everything, Everything

Another YA adaption of star-crossed lovers

"...has kept her from leaving her mother’s airlocked, spick-and-span Los Angeles home for as long as she can remember...."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lowriders

Film about East L.A.'s car culture

"...time. A graffiti artist gets caught up in East Los Angeles car culture as he tries to help his..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

CHIPS

The California Highway Patrol rides again

"...dirty cop ring that’s been pulling heists all over Los Angeles...."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

All Nighter

A father searches for his daughter with the help of her ex-boyfriend

"...day and a night, the pair wander all over Los Angeles in their search for the absent Ginnie, interacting..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ramones at 40 / Slash: A Punk Magazine From Los Angeles, 1977-80

Ramones at 40 / Slash: A Punk Magazine From Los Angeles, 1977-80

"...group of artistic and writerly types willed a proper Los Angeles punk scene into existence via printed propaganda. Within..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

A Winter Rose

A star is born (again)

"...world of demo tapes and afternoon auditions in sun-drenched Los Angeles (cue umpteenth aerial shot of the iconic Capitol..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nocturnal Animals

A dark meditation on regret and revenge

"...Adams is Susan, the manager of a high-end Los Angeles art gallery. She’s married to natty philanderer Walker..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Klown Forever

Danish comedy duo head to Hollywood

"...his own. Inciting incident: Casper up and moves to Los Angeles to make a name for himself in Hollywood,..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Nice Guys

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe pair for laughs in this detective caper

"...comedy squinting its way through the chest cough of Los Angeles smog circa 1977. (Smog is to The Nice..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Meddler

A terrific vehicle for Susan Sarandon as a meddlesome mom

"...(Sarandon) relocates to the perpetually sunny shopper’s paradise of Los Angeles to be near her chronically depressed only child..."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Secret in Their Eyes

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, and Nicole Kidman in a twisty drama

"...main task is to remotely surveil a mosque in Los Angeles, while Claire (Kidman) is a Harvard-educated newcomer to..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Perfect Guy

Unimaginative woman-in-distress thriller

"...we? Leah (Lathan) is a very successful lobbyist in Los Angeles, an executive with a beautiful home and a..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

After Words

Marcia Gay Harden stars as a lonely woman on vacation in an exotic locale

"...(Harden), a middle-aged librarian living an anonymous existence in Los Angeles with only a cat for company, decides to..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Pranom Pop-Up Comes to Austin

California street food chef cooking weekly

"...chef Dream Kasestatad made a name for himself in Los Angeles preparing pad thai and delivering it to hungry..."

July 28, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Maps to the Stars

David Cronenberg's film, with a script by Bruce Wagner, is a darkly humorous moral fable aimed at Hollywood.

"...portentous with her femme-fatale haircut) arriving by bus in Los Angeles. A burn victim from a mysterious fire who..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mortdecai

Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.

"...Myers’ dim-bulb sex magnet Austin Powers but can’t come close to the charisma either men exuded in a single..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Inherent Vice

Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

"...of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 California noir novel, set in Los Angeles circa 1970. The Summer of Love has been..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.

"...has jumped from grimy New York City to smog-sunny Los Angeles, but the game remains – mostly – the..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beyond the Lights

A popular singer finds the courage to be herself with the help of a friendly cop.

"...go, Beyond the Lights offers up a doozy. When Los Angeles police officer Kaz (Parker) finds rising star Noni..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

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