Flickr Shot by Akaraff (obviously not from the movie) Hey all, just got this notice from Goldstar Events. Right now they’re giving away comp tickets to be in Will Ferrell’s new movie Semi Pro. The event will be held at a basketball court near Dodger Stadium and attendees are expected to dress up in funky…
Category Archives: Movies
Cartoons Never Say "Die": The Animation Show 3
Animation is called “the single most misunderstood film medium” but so what? Just as long as it’s entertaining to watch, oh, and edumacational. Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis & Butthead) and Academy Award-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected) have curated an annual feature-length collection of the best animated shorts from around the world meant to spread…
Make Your Christmas Day with Bullitt & Dirty Harry
You want to kill someone, don’t you? You probably had it up to here with those dysfunctional family gettogethers and stressful holiday shopping mob scenes where you could only scream inside your head. Take out that frustration by taking in a double feature of bad-ass cops beating up and blasting away some bad guys who…
Idiocracy: Where You're the Smartest Person Alive
Imagine waking up one morning to find that you are the smartest person in the world — smarter than world leaders, CEOs and Mensa. Apparently that’s the premise of this movie that I never heard of before. Idiocracy is directed by Mike Judge of Beavis & Butthead and, more importantly, Office Space fame and it…
Audrey Hepburn Double Feature, Dahling!
Yay! My wish came true: Beverly Cinema will be showing an Audrey Hepburn double feature this Friday and Saturday. Two of her best movies where she sings, she dances: Breakfast At Tiffany’s and Funny Face. Leave it to Audrey to make a country bumpkin-turned-New York City call girl heartbreakingly beautiful and elegant. And what girl…
Trick or Treat! Halloween for Your Inner Child
Remember when puberty forced you to hang up your Halloween candy pail? I know, that sucked. Well, that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy what made the holiday fun for you when you were a kid, namely trick-or-treating. Trick of the eye: The El Capitan Theatre will be showing Halloween/Christmas classic, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare…
Ghoulish Delight: Things To Do on Friday the 13th
Zoinks! Two creepy days in one creepy month. Don’t be scared. Instead of hiding under your covers this Friday the 13th, get out there and brave the bad luck. Especially with so many appropriately horrific things to do, look how much trouble you can get into! Spider Pavilion: I know spiders are supposed to be…
Dawn of the Dead Cemetery Screening
What a great way to kick off the Halloween season: watching horror classic Dawn of the Dead in a cemetery. Prepare to get sufficiently creeped out as Cinespia will be screening George Romero’s ghoultastic movie in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for its last screening of the season (awwww!). I’ve always wanted them to show Night…
Film Review: Jason Statham on Crank
*Sorta spoiler to follow* Public sex in the middle of crowded Chinatown, bike jacking a motorcycle cop, taking on a bar full of big black guys, driving through an indoor mall pursued by cops–don’t stop cuz you’ll die. Don’t think either because then you won’t enjoy the ride. Crank is Speed except instead of the…
In a World Where Movies Are Cheap…
Flickr Shot by optionthis When I went to see This Gun for Hire and The Blue Dahlia double feature at the New Beverly Cinema the other day, I was instantly charmed by the no-frills theatre and reminded of a time when catching a flick was a low-cost night out. Sure, there’s no stadium seating, attentive ushers…
