By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have […]
‘Hail Mary’: Funny, awesome
Fantastically funny ‘Ladies’ at Westminster Playhouse
By Thom deMartino Orange County Tribune Lord, what fools these mortals be. Westminster Community Playhouse is at it again, with their newest production: the fantastic farce “Leading Ladies.” Written by Ken Ludwig […]
Searing ‘Eight Seconds’ at GWC
By Thom deMartino Orange County Tribune If you’re looking for terror, you don’t have to look much further than the glow of your own screen. A world premiere production has opened for […]
Electifying ‘Hairspray’ at Gem
By Thom deMartino Orange County Tribune There’s something in the air. Maybe fluorocarbons. The renowned Gem Theater in Garden Grove is currently staging their new production of “Hairspray”: directed by Damian Lorton, […]
‘The Bride’ has some bite
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say […]
‘Hoppers’ has action, sweetness
By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer “Hoppers” might be built with familiar parts, but Pixar’s latest isn’t trying to hide its various influences. Instead, this buoyant, freewheeling adventure about a spirited 19-year-old […]
‘Scream 7’s’ gore was a bore
By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer Early in “Scream 7,” in one of those blasts of the franchise’s signature, self-mocking irony, Neve Campbell is taunted for sitting out “Scream VI.” “It’s not […]
‘Man on the Run’ was up, down
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer If Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” was the supreme document of the Beatles’ final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s “Man on the […]
‘How to Make a Killing’ misfires
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer “How to Make a Killing,” starring Glen Powell as a working-class man who sets out to murderously reclaim his inheritance, has a clear inspiration: the great […]
An AI apocalypse in ‘Good Luck’
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” a strange unnamed man (Sam Rockwell) steps into a Los Angeles diner and […]
