by Richard T. Jameson | Jan 14, 2014 | Awards, Features, News, What's Hot
Images, lines, gestures, moods from the year’s films By Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy * Inside Llewyn Davis: Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) sits by in the Village club, uninvited, as “500 Miles” is performed by Jim & Jean (Justin Timberlake, Carey...
by Noah Walden | Dec 30, 2013 | News, What's Hot
Is it fair to compare a lesbian love story told by a Tunisian-French director to a documentary about a wave of killings in Indonesia in which the still living assailants recreate the scenes of slaughter? Or to state which is definitively better; the tale of man sold...
by Don Kaye | Dec 20, 2013 | Features, Staff Picks
Science fiction on the big screen is in a strange place these days. For the past couple of years, there have been several strains of cinematic sci-fi that have attempted to attract viewers with varying degrees of success: first, the action-oriented spectacles and...
by James Rocchi | Dec 19, 2013 | Interviews, Podcast, What's Hot
Jonás Cuarón joins this episode of The Lunch Podcast from the Chateau Marmont in L.A. to talk about – among other things — Gravity, the film he wrote with his father Alfonso Cuarón. Growing up, the son of the director of Children of Men and Y tu Mama...
by James Rocchi | Dec 9, 2013 | Interviews, Podcast
In a special The Lunch Podcast recorded literally right after Sunday’s L.A. Film Critic’s Awards Voting Meeting, James is joined by fellow LAFCA members Alonso Duralde (The Wrap), Amy Nicholson (L.A. Weekly and Karina Longworth (Freelance) to talk not only about the...