By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer It’s a noir staple to open with a bit of narration, but once the nameless hit- man protagonist of David Fincher’s “The Killer” starts gabbing, he doesn’t […]
‘The Killer’ missed the mark
Falling back can be painful
I fall every fall. Or almost every fall. Spring, too. As you probably know, this past weekend was the end of “daylight savings time,” and the beginning of “standard time.” There are […]
‘Rustin:’ Man behind the March
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer It likely wouldn`t have happened without the work of a master strategist: Bayard Rustin, a gay Black socialist and pacifist-activist from Pennsylvania, whose close friendship with King […]
If Rangers, why not Angels?
“The road is short that never bends.” – Anonymous The bend in the road for the Texas Rangers took a while to arrive, but arrive it did … after 12 years. But […]
Social worker to SWAT officer
By Greg Mellen/Behind the Badge Westminster Police Department Detective Marcela Lopez approaches policing from a couple of different perspectives: first, as a woman, and second, as a person who came to police […]
Warm, no smarm in ‘Holdovers’
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer The holiday movie genre is suspect –– even the most well-intentioned entries can be too saccharine, too wistful, too “Lifetime.” But Alexander Payne, working with a sharp […]
Signs in the right direction?
What about us? The recent move by the Westminster City Council to put “alternate names” on certain street names to make it easier for residents who are not English-speaking to navitgate the […]
‘Priscilla’ a romance with Elvis
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. […]
Next Tuesday is Candy Day
Some might call it socialism-by-social pressure. Some might call it the entering edge of devil-worship. Others see it as an example of helicopter-parenting run wild. I like to think of it as […]
‘Pigeon’ is a non-fiction thriller
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer Errol Morris’s conversation with the late David Cornwell in ” The Pigeon Tunnel ” is fascinating even without the filmmaking flourishes. Cornwell, better known by his pen […]
