Sitting down to write a review of THE LAST EXORCISM PART II, I find myself somewhat in the position of the modern satirist, who finds the real world has become so ridiculous that there is little room to push the envelope even further for comic effect, rendering the concept of satire almost redundant. In my [...]
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Film Review: Dark Skies
DARK SKIES proves once again (as if any proof were necessary) that Blumhouse Productions has codified its horror template to the point that their films are the cinematic equivalent of blues music: the lyrics may change, but the subject matter or tone; and regardless of the writers and performers, you will hear the same 12-bar [...]
Film Review: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey
If you are a fan of Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, good fortune has smiled upon you this weekend, because THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY contains more of what you enjoyed before – much, much more. In fact, there is so much LORD OF THE RINGS that there is barely any room for [...]
Film Review: Rise of the Guarians
You make think that RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is family-friendly fantasy that recasts traditional cultural icons as superheroes, but in reality this is one scary flick – maybe not enough to send adults screaming from the theatres, but it could cause more than a few nightmares among younger viewers. You see, bad dreams are at [...]
Film Review: Twilight Breaking Dawn 2
There are good and bad aspects about a film series, such as HARRY POTTER or THE TWILIGHT SAGA. The bad aspect is that the story has to be stretched over multiple installments that create a deadening sense of inertia: it’s a bit like reading a lengthy novel that forces you to wade through pages and [...]
Delusion: The Blood Rite adds more dates
Delusion: The Blood Rite has extended its run once again, adding two more weekends: November 1 though December 2; and December 7 through 9. The Haunted Play, original scheduled to run through the the first weekend of November, has previously extended into the middle of the month, and now reaches into December. Hours for the [...]
Film Review: Jack & Diane
“Love is a monster,” proclaims the poster – and in this case, the film means it literally. Or figuratively. Or something. You see, JACK & DIANE’s lesbian love story is intercut with darkly disturbing animation inserts by the Brothers Quay and a few scenes of bestial man-in-a-suit monster action. Unfortunately, these teasing glimpses of horror [...]
Blumhouse of Horrors: Halloween 2012 Post-Mortem
The downtown Halloween haunt – which made its debut this October – offered a scream-filled final weekend.
Sometimes we say goodbye too soon. Only last Saturday, November 3, we were bidding farewell to the Halloween season with Hollywood Gothique’s 2012 Halloween Haunt Awards, listing the most memorable achievements that delighted our senses during the preceding six [...]
Film Review: Vamps
Writer-directed Amy Herckling’s horror-comedy is a bit “clueless” about what makes vampirism interesting. VAMPS is built around a premise as thin as the last anemic drops of blood dripping from the veins of a blood-sucker’s victim: For a couple of beautiful women, being vampires isn’t all that different from being ordinary humans; you share a [...]
Blue Velvet at Cinematheque
Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90403 (323) 634-4878
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Description: The American Cinematheque double-bills David Lynch’s bizarre and horriffic film noir with ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, as part of their “MOTION PICTURESQUE: CINEMA AT ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL” series.
Date: January 18 at 7:30pm
The Last Exorcism Part 2: March 1
Location: nationwide
Description: CBS Films releases sequel to the interesting but ultimately muddled 2010 film. Ed Gass Donnelly takes over the director’s chair from Daniel Stamm, working from a script he re-wrote from a draft by Damien Chazell, based on characters created by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland. Ashley Bell returns as Nell Sweetzer, the phony [...]
2012 A Kubrick Odyssey: Dr. Strangelove
Date : November 30 at 7:30pm
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 857-6000
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Description: As part of “2012: A Kubrick Odyssey” – a complete chronological series of Kubrick entire filmed oeuvre – the Los Angeles County Museum of Art screens the filmmaker’s 1964 black-and-white [...]
The Wizard of Oz at Cinematheque
Date : November 25 at 4pm
Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403
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Description: The American Cinematheque screens the enduring fantasy classic about Dorothy and her trip to the magical land of Oz. From the website: “Judy Garland is Dorothy in this sublime, candy-colored adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s [...]
Stanley Kubrick Exhibition at LACMA
Dates: November 1 through June 30, 2012
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 857-6000
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Description: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents an exhibition devoted to the work of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, including THE SHINING, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and DR. [...]
Masterworks of Expressionist Cinema: Caligari and Metropolis
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers up an exhibition of artwork derived from two classic examples of German Expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and METROPOLIS. With its disturbingly unreal approach to cinematic imagery, Expressionism helped give birth to fantasy films, mystery movies, sci-fi cinema, and horror. LACMA’s exhibit, titled “Masterworks of Expressionist Cinema: [...]
Blumhouse of Horrors: Halloween 2012 Post-Mortem
The downtown Halloween haunt – which made its debut this October – offered a scream-filled final weekend.
Sometimes we say goodbye too soon. Only last Saturday, November 3, we were bidding farewell to the Halloween season with Hollywood Gothique’s 2012 Halloween Haunt Awards, listing the most memorable achievements that delighted our senses during the preceding six [...]
2012 Halloween Haunt Odyssey Part 4: Hollywood Haunter, Van Oaks Cemetery, Sherwood Scare & Forest of Mirrors
The final installment of Hollywood Gothique’s 2012 Halloween Haunt Odyssey finds us retracing our steps over previously explored territory, as we head out on October 31, seeking those ephemeral haunts open only on All Hallow’s Eve. From Glendale to Sherman Oaks to Northridge and finally back to Woodland Hills (again!), we wander through the ghost-infested [...]
Review: The Last Exorcism Part II
Sitting down to write a review of THE LAST EXORCISM PART II, I find myself somewhat in the position of the modern satirist, who finds the real world has become so ridiculous that there is little room to push the envelope even further for comic effect, rendering the concept of satire almost redundant. In my [...]
Film Review: Dark Skies
DARK SKIES proves once again (as if any proof were necessary) that Blumhouse Productions has codified its horror template to the point that their films are the cinematic equivalent of blues music: the lyrics may change, but the subject matter or tone; and regardless of the writers and performers, you will hear the same 12-bar [...]
SMOKE AND MIRRORS on stage
Update: SMOKE AND MIRRORS – which ran from September through December at the The Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica last year – will be moving to The Road Theatre at 5103 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood. Previews begin January 18; the official run is form January 26 through March 16. Written and performed by magician Albie Selnick, the play is “re-imagined autobiography,” portraying Selnick as a boy who uses magic to face the world after the death of his father.
The Last Exorcism Part 2: March 1
Location: nationwide
Description: CBS Films releases sequel to the interesting but ultimately muddled 2010 film. Ed Gass Donnelly takes over the director’s chair from Daniel Stamm, working from a script he re-wrote from a draft by Damien Chazell, based on characters created by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland. Ashley Bell returns as Nell Sweetzer, the phony [...]
Beautiful Creatures: February 13
Location: nationwide
Description: Warner Brothers releases this fantasy film from Alcon Entertainment.Richard LaGravenese wrote and directed, based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The cast includes Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Alice Englert, and Alden Ehrenreich. The story follows Lena (Englert), a high school girl whose family is believed by the local [...]
2001: A Space Odyssey – February 1 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece screens at midnight.
Date: February 1, 2013
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters – January 25
Location: nationwide
Description: Paramount Pictures offers up this R-rated, action-oriented spin on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Tommy Wirkola (DEAD SNOW) directed from a script he co-wrote with Dante Harper. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the title characters, here portrayed as adult witch-hunters. Famke Janssen co-stars as the witch Muriel. Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, [...]
Mama: January 18 debut
Universal Pictures releases this horror film, presented by Guillermo Del Toro. Andres Mushietti directed, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Neil Cross and Barbara Mushietti, based on his 2008 short subject.The cast includes Jessica Chastain, Nikoaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nelisse, Daniel Kash, Javier Botet, and Jane Moffat as the voice of Mama. The story [...]
John Dies at the End, with writer-director Don Coscarelli in person
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Magnet Releasing begins its limited platform theatrical release for this bizarre fantasy film with a one-week engagement at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles. Chase Williamson leads a cast that includes Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti (LADY IN [...]
A Haunted House opens
Location: nationwide
Description: This send-up of PARNORMAL ACTIVITY, THE DEVIL INSIDE, and other recent horror offerings opens nationwide, courtesy of Open Road Films and Endgame Enterainment. Michael Tiddes directed, from a script by Rick Alvarez and Marlon Wayans, the latter of whom worked on the first couple of SCARY MOVIE spoofs, so you can guess where [...]
Texas Chainsaw 3D opens
Location: nationwide
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Description: The buzz is back – this time in 3D, and we bet you can’t wait to see the titular tool comin’ at ya out of the big screen. Lionsgate opens TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D on Friday, January 4, 2013. Although the trailer presents the film as a follow-up to the 1974 [...]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in theatres December 14
U.S. Release Date: December 14, 2012
Location: nationwide
Description: Warner Brothers Pictures releases this adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien novel, hoping to recreate the success of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. In this prequel, we see the adventure of Bilbo Baggins, who joins Gandalf and a band of dwarfs on a quest that leads to a confrontation [...]
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Review: The Last Exorcism Part II
Sitting down to write a review of THE LAST EXORCISM PART II, I find myself somewhat in the position of the modern satirist, who finds the real world has become so ridiculous that there is little room to push the envelope even further for comic effect, rendering the concept of satire almost redundant. In my [...]
Film Review: Dark Skies
DARK SKIES proves once again (as if any proof were necessary) that Blumhouse Productions has codified its horror template to the point that their films are the cinematic equivalent of blues music: the lyrics may change, but the subject matter or tone; and regardless of the writers and performers, you will hear the same 12-bar [...]
Blue Velvet at Cinematheque
Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90403 (323) 634-4878
Link out: Click here
Description: The American Cinematheque double-bills David Lynch’s bizarre and horriffic film noir with ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, as part of their “MOTION PICTURESQUE: CINEMA AT ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL” series.
Date: January 18 at 7:30pm
The Last Exorcism Part 2: March 1
Location: nationwide
Description: CBS Films releases sequel to the interesting but ultimately muddled 2010 film. Ed Gass Donnelly takes over the director’s chair from Daniel Stamm, working from a script he re-wrote from a draft by Damien Chazell, based on characters created by Huck Botko & Andrew Gurland. Ashley Bell returns as Nell Sweetzer, the phony [...]
Beautiful Creatures: February 13
Location: nationwide
Description: Warner Brothers releases this fantasy film from Alcon Entertainment.Richard LaGravenese wrote and directed, based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The cast includes Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Alice Englert, and Alden Ehrenreich. The story follows Lena (Englert), a high school girl whose family is believed by the local [...]
2001: A Space Odyssey – February 1 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
Link out: Click here
Description: Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece screens at midnight.
Date: February 1, 2013
Mulholland Drive: March 15 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: David Lynch’s brain-bendingly surreal film noir screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-03-15
The Thing: March 8 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: John Carpenter’s 1982 film adaptation of John W. Campbell’s story “Who Goes There?” (previously filmed by producer Howard Hawks in 1941 as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD) screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-03-08
Scott Pilgrim vs the World: February 15 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: The comic book adaptation about a young man who must battle his girlfriend’s evil ex’s, screens at midnight.
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-15
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Disappointing film version of Pink Floyd’s concept album screens at midnight
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-22
Holy Motors: February 8 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Director Leox Carax’s surreal film screens at midnight (the crazy red-bearded “monster” from his episode of TOKYO re-appears).
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-02-08
Bubba Ho-Tep: January 18 at Nuart
Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, 90025 (310) 473-8530, CA
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Description: Don Coscarelli’s tongue-in-cheek horror film in which Elvis meets the undead, screens at midnight
Start Time: 23:59
Date: 2013-01-18
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters – January 25
Location: nationwide
Description: Paramount Pictures offers up this R-rated, action-oriented spin on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Tommy Wirkola (DEAD SNOW) directed from a script he co-wrote with Dante Harper. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the title characters, here portrayed as adult witch-hunters. Famke Janssen co-stars as the witch Muriel. Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, [...]
- Review: The Last Exorcism Part II
- Film Review: Dark Skies
- Blue Velvet at Cinematheque
- The Last Exorcism Part 2: March 1
- Beautiful Creatures: February 13
- 2001: A Space Odyssey – February 1 at Nuart
- Mulholland Drive: March 15 at Nuart
- The Thing: March 8 at Nuart
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World: February 15 at Nuart
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
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