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The Anticipator: July 2010
Things are just starting to heat up here at The Average Joes. Summer is full speed ahead and I can’t wait to really write down some thoughts deeper than release dates and news summaries. Stay tuned for a bevy of reviews and other fun stuffs. Meanwhile, on with the anticipating! I hear the “Grease” singalong [...]
Around Town: Charlie Chaplin, Hero Complex, and more
The Aero Theatre is screening “Modern Times,” “The Great Dictator,” and many more Charlie Chaplin classics. Cinefamily celebrates Father’s Day with another Chaplin film, “The Kid,” and will be featuring several Buster Keaton shorts at the end of the month. The LACMA film series is back, most notably featuring “Suspicion” on the 22nd and “Forbidden [...]
The Anticipator: June 2010
This summer is continuing its rather weak lineup with “Killers,” “Marmaduke,” “The A-Team,” “The Karate Kid,” and “Grown Ups” padding the box office charts. But the two films that are sure to delight are “Splice” and “Toy Story 3.” One is a low-budget, old-school science fiction creature feature and the other is the finale to [...]
The Anticipator: March 2010
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass have reunited post-Bourne for a slightly more realistic thriller about the hunt for WMD, while in fewer theaters director Bong Joon-ho returns after 2006′s wonderful giant-monster movie, “The Host,” with “Mother,” a story about a woman’s attempt to clear her mentally handicapped son of murder charges. Meanwhile, the animated film [...]
Around Town: Clint Eastwood, Dan O’Bannon, and more
O.K. so the LACMA exhibit I kept telling you about, “Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics,” wasn’t nearly as good as I thought it would be. They kept non-comics pieces separate from the comics, robbing the viewer of any kind of comparison. What comics they did have were mediocre at best, [...]
The Anticipator: February 2010
“Frozen,” a squirm-inducing Sundance entry about snowboarders trapped on a chairlift at a ski resort, has received some decent buzz, but the heavy-hitter for the first half of the month is the troubled production of “The Wolfman.” Benicio del Toro stars as the titular man-monster alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. Multiple directors, reshoots, and [...]
Around Town: John Ford, Antichrist, and more
Now through February 7, LACMA is holding an exhibition on comic books from India. “Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics” places modern-day comic retellings of Indian myths alongside the museum’s historical collection of Indian paintings, “[examining] the legacy of India’s divine heroes and heroines in contemporary South Asian culture through the [...]
The Anticipator: January 2010
A new year is upon us and I’ve just barely been keeping this site alive. But like I’ve always said, it’s been more for me to dip my toes back into the writing waters rather than to reclaim my former accomplishments. I’ve been on a different track lately, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see [...]
The Anticipator: December 2009
The end of the school semester and the holidays set me back a bit, more than usual, so I’m going to do something a little different with this month’s Anticipator. Seeing as December is fairly kaput, I’m still going to list each release by week, but give my thoughts on how it all went down. [...]
Around Town: Nevermore, Indian comics, and more
Though I have no idea how good it is, the Steve Allen Theater has a play going on until December 19, called “Nevermore.” It stars THE Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allan Poe “on a cross-country speaking tour fraught with strange occurrences that signal Poe’s descent into madness.” Catch it every Friday and Saturday at 8 [...]
