Entertainment & Arts
The talented cast is far too good for the contrived, superficial moments in Joanna Murray-Smith’s new work at the Geffen Playhouse.
Feb. 7, 2013
Review: ‘The Gift’ wraps itself up in banalities
“Identity politics” has an old-fashioned ring, the banner of the academic culture wars of the 1990s, but the conflicts over race, religion, sexuality, gender, nationality and, let us not forget in this new gilded age, class, have grown more fierce and frenzied in 2015.
Dec. 12, 2015
Movies
Charles Martin Smith, who gained stardom as Terry the Toad in 1973’s ‘American Graffiti,’ is back behind the camera for ‘Dolphin Tale 2.’
Sept. 13, 2014
Books
You can’t park outside Thomas Hardy’s cottage at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset.
Jan. 15, 1995
California
A Feb. 4 trial was set Friday for the driver of a car that killed three children in a bicycle lane at Camp Pendleton.
Jan. 4, 1986
Director Charles Martin Smith and cast — including the prosthesis-wearing Winter the dolphin — are back in this pleasantly bland sequel to the 2011 original. The big news: Winter gets a companion.
Sept. 11, 2014
“Fifty/Fifty” (citywide) is an above-average modestly budgeted action-adventure that teams Peter Weller and Robert Hays as a devil-may-care pair of mercenaries blackmailed by the CIA into leading the overthrow of an oppressive island regime somewhere in Malaysia.
March 1, 1993
POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House: $19.95; 373 pp.) “ ‘Polar Star’ joins the still-narrow shelf of novels of crime that transcend the form and, in the name of entertainment, illuminate their time.”
July 9, 1989