By trade, I’m a full-time film historian/critic who has authored/co-authored four movie history books. I say this because at one point in the new play ...
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04 July 2021
As Jews and refugees increasingly come under attack, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts returns to live theater with the world premiere of...
19 June 2021
In that “the show must go on” spirit, live theater is returning to Los Angeles’ stages. On what used to be its adjoining parking lot, The Fountain Theatre...
08 June 2021
Well, for the first time since the lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first...
03 June 2021
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 feature Apocalypse Now depicted war crimes committed by U.S. troops against Vietnamese people: An unforgettable, operatic...
17 May 2021
Just in case you haven’t had enough of those “Masterpiece Theater” type of prestigious, polished, Brit productions, the British Film Institute has launched...