By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer “Rebel Ridge” opens with a shot of a lanky, muscular stranger riding into a small, corrupt Southern town — a scene we’ve all seen plenty of times. […]
‘Rebel Ridge’ a taut racial drama
“Reagan”: Quaid is good, but the movie … not quite as good
By Jocelyn Noveck/AP National Writer “Is there anything worse than an actor with a cause?” asks an annoyed Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan’s first wife, early in “Reagan,” the new biopic starring Dennis […]
White Sox are making history
The Chicago White Sox are about to make history. Bad history. Oh, it’s not quite as awful as the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal in which eight members of the team accepted bribes […]
Flashbacks, fun in “Seussical’
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune You may wonder or think – if thinks you do – whether “Seussical” at the Gem Theatre in Garden Grove may be just for you… well, never […]
Wahoo’s: consistently original
By John Borack/Special to The Tribune It has been said that not all chain restaurants are created equal: there are some that are mediocre at best (we’re looking at you, Applebee’s), others […]
Everybody’s in for Week One
Most of our West Orange County high school football teams opened the 2024 campaign with Week Zero games. Now the other two teams – La Quinta and Rancho Alamitos – will […]
How much more baseball history can Shohei Ohtani make?
By Beth Harris/AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has time to make more history this season. The Japanese superstar hit a two-out grand slam in the ninth inning for […]
Screwball comedy is back with “Between the Temples”
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who […]
The two minutes that added so very much to pro football
There have been a lot of changes in big-time sports since the first caveman invented the Cover 2 defense or the alternate possession rule, but one innovation stands out above them all […]
2024: It’s college football’s season of sweeping change
By Eric Olson and Ralph D. Russo/AP Sports Writers Welcome to college football’s season of change. Three tumultuous years filled with conference realignment, playoff expansion and various reforms come to life […]
