I stand at the mouth of the gallery. It gapes. And still I stand. I have been hired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to announce each patron’s name as they walk in. “Susan Choi!” “Douglas Martini” “Yi Sun Kim!” A...
The year writer/director J.C. Chandor refers to in the title of his excellent new film is 1981, a time when New York City was literally awash in crime. But in A Most Violent Year, the filmmaker takes what could have...
The ‘Taken’ franchise of action dramas, starring a fit and towering Liam Neeson as an imposing ex-CIA / Black Ops hard-man, rivals Die Hard for its taut storylines and mind-blowing smash-’em-up action sequences. In all...
This Sunday, the Skirball Cultural Center is holding the second of two salon events that complement their major fall exhibition, Light & Noir: Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood, 1933-1950, currently on view until...
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony award-winning musical comes to the screen in a lavish and beautifully mounted version. Sondheim purists always wince when a film adaptation of one of his musicals is...