Sometimes the setting of a movie just screams “location holiday!” (Think Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s junket for A Good Year.) So you can be forgiven for a healthy level of cynicism over Cameron Crowe’s latest...
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Pauline Adamek
“Emerging” at The Annenberg Space for Photography – Los Angeles photo exhibition review
The Annenberg Space for Photography’s new exhibition Emerging, focuses on the works of 90 up-and-coming photographers from around the world. This gorgeous exhibition runs all summer through September 20, 2015, and...
Pierre Huyghe Retrospective at LACMA – Arts Reporting as Embedded Journalism – Los Angeles art exhibition review
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...
Ash Revell
“A Most Violent Year” – Los Angeles movie review
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...
Kurt Gardner
Hard core, kick-ass action at its finest — “Taken 3” film review
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...