Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:00AM - By Guest Writer
The Aero on Montana Boulevard, will be celebrating Halloween with the tried and true Horror-Thon. Kicking off their frightening film festival is a Halloween party in Santee Village in Downtown Los Angeles, Thursday 25 October (link to details found on The Aero’s master calendar of upcoming event – yes a costume is required).
The party benefits Project Angel Food (a service which delivers food to those with HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses) and American Cinematheque (a Los Angeles based organization that is dedicated to the public presentation of film).
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Friday, October 19, 2007 7:02AM - By Guest Writer
Yup yup. I know I’ve mentioned it before and you may or may not have heard about it, but Star Trek is ready to go. The full cast has been announced and it sure is strange.
Zachary Quinto, Sylar from Heroes, will be playing Spock. Chris Pine, from some Lindsey Lohan crap movie, is playing James T. Kirk (I can imagine J.J. Abrams watching said Lohan flick and saying, ‘YES! I’ve found my Captain Kirk!”). Karl Urban will play Leonard McCoy. The hilarious Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) will be playing Scotty. Zoe Saldana will play Uhura and John Cho (Harold and Kumar) will be Sulu. It is said Leonard Nimoy is set to return as an older Spock, but we’ll see about that. The villain for the film is going to be Eric Bana; his name is Nero, not to be confused with Neo from The Matrix.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:30PM - By Guest Writer
“Lost Angel” is both touching and funny, something so many modern movies try to mimic but so often fail. This is because the heart of modern film is in the wrong place, often losing the simplistic beauty of the heartwarming movie in over-the-top dramatics. Though the plot is simple and fairly easily read, it is a classic little gem that wouldn’t hurt to stock on your shelf for those days when you really just need a reason to feel good.
“Lost Angel” opens with a woman running up the steps to a foundling home, where she drops off a basket, which carries a newborn girl. Within a few scenes this same baby is suddenly subjected to being measured and tested for her reactions to alternating stimuli. Sounds more like the beginning to Scifi movie, but in fact this 1943 film starring a very adorable Margaret O’Brien, James Craig and Marsha Hunt, is a cuddle up with a big-fat-smile on your face kind of movie. Turner Classic Movies is responsible for this viewing and I am quite glad I stumbled upon it. Margaret O’Brien was an amazing child-actor. I’ve seen a number of her movies and she never fails to amaze me with her high quality of elocution and how adorably astute she can be.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:30AM - By Guest Writer
In case you haven’t heard, every geek’s dream in the world has come true. Yes, they’re making a Justice League movie. Rumors have been circulating the internet for weeks now. Will it be live-action or motion capture? Will Christian Bale and Brandon Routh return as Batman and Superman? Will it even be made or will it meet the fate of every other awesome superhero project that Warner Bros. teases us with? Tune in next week! Same Cityzine time! Same Cityzine channel! Or just read on and find out right now.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:30AM - By Mali Elfman
Playing through this Thursday at the NUART! Check is out before it’s gone!
Showtimes are at 5:00, 7:30 and 10:00pm
Located at:
11272 Santa Monica Blvd. (Just west of the 405)
West Los Angeles, 90025
(310)281-8223
About a Son is a film by AJ Schnack (director of Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)), based on more than 25 hours of never-before-heard audiotape interviews conducted by journalist Michael Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, the movie is told entirely in Cobain’s own voice. The film beautifully illustrates Cobain’s own successes and failures, thoughts and experiences. The conversations are informal, humorous, angry and candid. Here, Cobain recounts his own life-from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame.
For more information check out www.kurtcobainaboutason.com
See the trailer here
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 8:30AM - By Guest Writer
Wow. From start to finish this film is brilliant.
Although you might spend half your time thinking, “Ummm…wait…what’s going on?” You always have enough “umph” to keep you fascinated. The film unfolds itself beautifully and left me buzzing on my way out of the theater. The ending works the way the way an ending should. You won’t walk in knowing what you are going to walk out with.
I can’t stand all the “surprise” endings in which the writer adds in so many twists that the movie becomes a joke. I also can’t stand the “we’re going to try to fool you, so look out” endings. This movie does none of that. Due to a family curse, often I am able to predict endings and in thrillers (although I hate to categorize this as such) I can’t stop my brain from doing so, but not in this film. It never tries to trick you, make you anticipate, or mess with your head. It just brings you into this high paced world and slowly but surely puts you on the inside of everything that is going on. This movie forced me to pay attention because I was so entranced by the story I never had time to predict where it was going. Every moment felt spontaneous and relayed a piece of valuable information, which I feel is the perfect combination that for some reason few movies have.
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Monday, October 8, 2007 11:30AM - By Guest Writer
Wes Anderson, if it were possible for two men to have babies, I would ask to have yours.
Note: I am straight. This is purely out of admiration and not in any way sexual… Why, did he say something about me?
*WARNING: Lengthy Backstory*
Bottle Rocket bored me. I’ll be honest, it did. I’ve tried to watch it 3 or so times, and have never gotten more than half way through. And I enjoyed Rushmore in a peripheral sort of way. Love Bill Murray (Caddyshack! Groundhog Day! Ghostbusters! Wheeeeeeee!), Jason Coppolla Schwartzman makes a name for himself. But it really didn’t seize me. As we say it French, it left me neither hot nor cold.
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Friday, October 5, 2007 11:30AM - By Guest Writer
Yup. It’s been circulating the net like crazy. According to “reliable” sources, Vin Diesel is in talk to pick up where our lovely Governor left off. It is reported that Vin Diesel has been meeting with producers to be a wonderful robot assassin in the new film Terminator 4. Not excited enough? How about McG helming it. I hate using the word helming. It’s not a boat.
Anyway, I wasn’t at all impressed with T3 so I really don’t care about T4. All the fanboys on the internet are crying out in joy, hoping that T4 will make up for what T3 lacked. Honestly, do you guys really think it’s going to get better? All I need is to see McG turn Terminator into one giant music video. Granted, I didn’t see We Are Marshall but I still feel pretty safe on my bet. All I can do is hope this is some great April Fools joke by some guy that doesn’t realize it’s October. I figure someone that would make up that kind of information would probably think it’s April.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007 2:46PM - By Guest Writer
Mods and Rockers make a “slight returnâ? at the Egyptian in Hollywood this weekend and next week, in a collection of films that celebrate mods and rockers for the eighth year. This is to be a little celebration in addendum to the much larger festival held during the summer of well-known rockers Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, and Otis Redding.
Friday, October 5th at 8:00p- Mini-fest with the documentary on the late Nick Drake.
“A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drakeâ? will be followed by a compilation of short filmed homage’s by admirers of Drake’s enigmatic music, persons such as Heath Ledger, Tim Pope and Jonas Mekas. In addition, a very special guest, sister to the deceased musician, Gabrielle Drake will be in attendance.
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