Upcoming Horror & Sci-Fi at Aero
The American Cinematheque begins 2009 with slim pickings for fans of fantasy films, mystery movies, horror-thrillers, and sci-fi cinema events in Los Angeles. Nothing of interest is playing at their Egyptian Theatre in Hollyood; fortunately, there are a few interesting programs at their other theatre, the Aero in Santa Monica. After a dry spell of [...]
Oliver and Company
Disney hauls its 1980s animated dog-and-cat musica-comedy out of the mothballs for a two-week run at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. Could this mean a DVD/Blu-ray release is in the works? Showtimes are 10:00am, 12:15pm, 2:30pm, 4:45pm, and 7:00pm on weekdays and Sundays, with an additional 9:15pm screening on Fridays and Saturdays. The 10:00am screenings on Friday, [...]
Alien at Midnight
The so-called “Director’s Cut” of the 1979 monster movie classic - about a nearly unstoppable alien terrorizing the crew of a merchant vessel in space - screens at midnight on Friday, January 9 in the Nuart Theatre - 11272 Santa Monica Blvd (just west of 405 Freeway) West Los Angeles, CA 90025. The director’s cut reinserts [...]
Raiders of the Lost Ark at Midnight
The blockbuster collaboration between Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, starring Harrison Ford, screens at midnight on Friday, January 2 in the Nuart Theatre - 11272 Santa Monica Blvd (just west of 405 Freeway) West Los Angeles, CA 90025. This is one of the most beloved action-fantasy films ever made, yet I have always found it somewhat [...]
It’s a Wonderful Life at the Egyptian
The American Cinematheque hauls out the beloved Christmas classic for one last time before the holiday season ends. See it on January 1 at 7:30pm in the Egytpian Theatre - 6712 Hollywood Blvd,
Cinefamily presents Beyond Anime
The Cinefamily starts the New Year off right with a series of animated films entitled Beyond Anime. Leading off is PAPRIKA, the well received film from directo Satoshi Kon, who first gained American attention with PERFECT BLUE and more recently with MEMORIES and MILLENNIUM ACTRESS. All movies screen at midnights on Fridays at the Silent [...]
Cinefamily’s Fantasy & Horror Tidbits
The first couple months of 2009 will see a slew of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror movies screening at the Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theatre in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. In January, there will be a Beyond Anime series on Fridays at midnights; in February, the Friday midnight slot will be filled by a series [...]
A Small Smorgasboard of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror
The venerable New Beverly Cinema will be a bit short on science-fiction, horror, and fantasy movies during the first months of the new year, but there are a handful of titles scheduled that should appeal to fans. Check them out below.
Title: Future -Kill
Description: The 1985 exploitation effort (which reteams Edwin Neal and Marilyn Burns, from the [...]
Andromeda Strain & Jurassic Park at New Beverly
The New Beverly Cinema - the venerable revival theatre - pays tribute to the late science-fiction author Michael Crichton with a pair of films derived form his work, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (directed by Robert Wise, best known to sci-fi fans for the original version of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL) and JURASSIC PARK (directed [...]
My Name is Bruce
The one-week run of MY NAME IS BRUCE continues at the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles, through Thursday. The film is a sort of horror movie variation on THREE AMIGOS and GALAXY QUEST, in which actors found themselves confronting real-life versions of their on-screen antics; there are also parallels with the recent JCVD, in [...]
Pic o’ the Week: Starship Troopers
A double bill of Paul Verhoeven science-fiction films, TOTAL RECALL and STARSHIP TROOPERS, continues its three-day run at the New Beverly Cinema. For some reason, these films are not as well-respected as Verhoeven’s earlier ROBOCOP, but RECALL has its virtues, and I think TROOPERS is rather under-rated. The remaining showtimes are on Monday and Tuesday, December [...]
Army of Darkness at Nuart
Following up on their previous week’s run of MY NAME IS BRUCE (also starring Bruce Campbell), the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles screens ARMY OF DARKNESS on Friday, December 26 at midnight. This third entry in the EVIL DEAD series eschews the graphic violence of its predecessors in favor of goofy comedy and a [...]
March of the Wooden Soldiers at Old Town Music Hall
The black-and-white holiday classic MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (also known as BABES IN TOYLAND) screens this weekend at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo. This is perhaps the best film featuring the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy, who managed to make the jump from silent to sound film more successfully than [...]