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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 [...]
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 [...]
My Year in Film, 2009: Science Fiction
For those just tuning in, I’ve decided to group my best of ‘09 list by genre, just so I can get my bearings. I failed to write reviews for so many films this past year that it’s hard to make a complete master list right off the bat. Now that animation and fantasy are out [...]
My Year in Film, 2009: Fantasy
I’ve renamed these “My Year in Film” as opposed to “The Year in Film” after already publishing the first entry, animation. My feeling is that since I’m only listing films I’ve seen and wanted to see, as opposed to every single film I’ve missed—not to mention that these are my opinions and I’m not claiming [...]
My Year in Film, 2009: Animation
I’ve decided to group my best of ‘09 list by genre, just so I can get my bearings. I failed to write reviews for so many films this past year that it’s hard to make a complete master list right off the bat. I’m starting off with animation (not a genre, but still a distinct [...]
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 [...]
The Anticipator: November 2009
The latest incarnation of Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” handcrafted by “Donnie Darko’s” and “Southland Tales’” writer-director, Richard Kelly, debuts this weekend alongside less questionable fare such as “The Men Who Stare at Goats” and “Precious.” Next week comes “2012,” which will be a magnificent special effects spectacle based off what I saw at [...]
