By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer This summer at the movies, Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit behind those iconic aviators. Doctors Grant, Sattler and Ian Malcolm are returning for another round […]
Movies roar back with summer
“Dr. Strange” in the “multiverse”
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer Once a superhero franchise goes multiverse, it’s hard to go back. No work of fiction ever needs permission to break the rules or push the boundaries of […]
Here is a “Spamalot” of fun
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune And now, for something completely different. The madcap, irreverent comedy of the groundbreaking — slightly infamous — British comedy troupe Monty Python comes to life at Golden West College […]
“Memory” feels like a flashback
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer “Memory“ is an interesting title for the latest Liam Neeson thriller. Do you remember the last Liam Neeson thriller? Or the one before that? Who was it that […]
Gem’s flamboyant “Dreamcoat”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune A funny thing happened on the way to the Pharaoh… Andrew Lloyd Webber’s neon-hued musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” comes to flamboyant life in this […]
“Oedipus Rex” on the screen
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune In the fall of 2021, while most of Orange County’s theater community were reeling from on-again, off-again safety regulations, Golden West College Theater director Tom Amen came […]
A funny “Fuddy” at the WCP
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Can you tell who you are — or “who” others tell you you are — if you don’t find out for yourself? In Westminster Community Playhouse’s “Fuddy […]
40 Acre Mule at Garden Amp
By Reagan Cisar/Orange County Tribune “When I started this, I wanted it to be my 40 acres and a mule, my opportunity to experience the American dream,” said guitarist and vocalist Isaiah […]
“CODA” and “Dog” Oscar faves
By Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle AP Film Writers Ahead of the 94th Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle share their predictions for major categories in a […]
A lean and modern “Hamlet”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune From the once implacable darkness, the creeping melancholy tones of an indigo sky stir — casting down upon the uneasy scene below, unfolding beneath the spectral visage […]
