Movies
Movie review: Caught in a poignant ‘Undertow’
Nov. 26, 2010
Kim Mordaunt’s Laos-set antiwar drama, ‘The Rocket,’ carries a touch of fable and a powerful sense of place in its melding of history’s dark undertow and a child’s optimism.
Jan. 16, 2014
Director David Gordon Green follows a conventional plot in his third feature film, with only some of its parts connecting deeply.
Oct. 22, 2004
Entertainment & Arts
”Joe” is the movie that will make you remember how good Nicolas Cage once was and can be again.
April 10, 2014
Outfest’s ‘4 in Focus’ spotlights varied group of filmmakers
July 11, 2010
When it comes to contemporary movie milieus, the phrase “downtown boho hipsters” strikes fear into the hearts of cliché-dreading filmgoers.
Sept. 25, 2014
“A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child” (citywide) has the effect of a relentless undertow, trapping its young people in a grisly fantasy of supernatural terror masterminded by the unconquerable Freddy Krueger.
Aug. 11, 1989
Books
WAYFARING AT WAVERLY IN SILVER LAKE: Stories, By James McCourt, Alfred A. Knopf: 324 pp., $25
July 7, 2002
Movie review: In ‘Chasing Mavericks,’ surf’s up, film’s flat
Oct. 25, 2012
Indie film auteur David Gordon Green talks about getting hired by comedy king Judd Apatow to direct the stoner movie ‘Pineapple Express.’
Aug. 5, 2008