By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer If anything is clear about “Megalopolis,” it’s that Francis Ford Coppola has a lot on his mind. The legendary filmmaker spent decades on this Roman-style epic, set […]
‘Megalopolis’ ideals, excesses
It’s an idle week for some
As the 2024 area high school football team reaches the halfway-mark, a bunch of the teams representing schools serving our West Orange County cities are idle this weekend. Since several of them […]
Justice for all, not just for us
Ten people, including two professors, will face misdemeanor charges of refusing to disperse as police tried to clear the University of California, Irvine campus of encampments in May created to demonstrate for […]
Pitt and Clooney carry “Wolfs”
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat […]
Shohei creates the 50-50 club
MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani became the first player in major league history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season when he homered three times and stole […]
‘Transformers One’ is unneeded
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went […]
‘Speak No Evil’ sounds scary
By Jocelyn Noveck/AP National Writer Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal? Nope, and there’s no signal at Paddy and […]
Retorts: Time for ‘tough love’
Cities all across our West Orange County and – and probably – all across California are busy composing anti-camping ordinances aimed at clearing clusters of homeless people creating impromptu settlements on public […]
Hey, use your thinkers, voters!
Now, wasn’t that an interesting debate? One candidate said the foreign leaders would “eat the lunch” of the other candidate, while the other claimed that a town in the Midwest is plagued […]
‘Rumors’ a colorful comedy
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune It’s my party, and I’ll die if I want to. (Or accidentally shoot myself in the earlobe, anyway.) Now playing at the Westminster Community Playhouse is the […]
