Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Richard LaGravenese published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 23
» View latimes.com items only
1
2
Next >
-
DVDs coming out May 21
The News & ObserverPicks of the Week 'Parker' (R, 118 minutes, Sony): Parker, the antihero of Taylor Hackford's serviceable action thriller, is an odd duck. Partly, it's the quaint code of ethics espoused by this gentleman thief (Jason Statham), who shoots a guy in...Tags: Rooney Mara, Entertainment, Movies, Raleigh, Wendell Pierce
-
HBO sees the light in Liberace biopic 'Behind the Candelabra'
NEW YORK — When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in fact, AIDS, it made front-page headlines around the...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Cannes Film Festival
-
Behind the Candelabra: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on the year’s most talked-about telefilm
Channel Guide MagazineDepending on how you look at it, the genesis for Behind the Candelabra, HBO’s extravagant and surprisingly emotional Liberace biopic, happened nearly 14 years ago — or more than 40. The film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, 50, says he... -
'Beautiful Creatures'
Aiming to be the next "Twilight," director Richard LaGravenese's ("P.S. I Love You") take on the best-seller by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl doesn't quite get there, but it still has striking visuals and a very strong supporting cast. Alice Englert...Tags: Emmy Rossum, Entertainment, Movies, Viola Davis
-
At the Carmike: Father risks everything for son in 'Snitch'
OPENING FRIDAY Snitch Starring Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt and Barry Pepper, "Snitch" is a fast-paced action thriller. Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at...
Tags: Movies, Benjamin Bratt, Celebrities, Looper (movie), Dark Skies (movie)
-
Film Review: Gothic snoozer 'Beautiful Creatures' isn't quite as dim as 'Twilight'
I never thought I'd regret not having reviewed any of the "Twilight" series. Now I do, because it would have been only a few moments' work to cut and paste several paragraphs, run some search-and-replaces ("caster" for "vampire," "Ethan" for "Belle"), and...
Tags: Beautiful Creatures (movie), Entertainment, Movies, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson
-
'Beautiful Creatures' score leads Dhani Harrison to Abbey Road
Working on Richard LaGravenese's latest movie, "Beautiful Creatures,” gave a couple of the musicians who created the film's music a chance to follow in their fathers' footsteps. "It was epic,” George Harrison’s son Dhani Harrison...
Tags: Music Industry, Beautiful Creatures (movie), Entertainment, Movies, Music
-
Find your 'safe haven'
OPENING TODAY Safe Haven Hoping to re-bottle the lightning captured in "The Notebook" and "Dear John," romance packager Nicholas Sparks has given his usual formula some sharp edges in "Safe Haven." The film, which stars Julianne Hough as a woman on...
Tags: Movies, Rooney Mara, Melissa McCarthy, Celebrities, Looper (movie)
-
Movie review: 'Beautiful Creatures' has brains and bewitching cast too
Maybe there really are supernatural forces at work in this world. How else to explain "Beautiful Creatures"? The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma — three words not typically associated with teen romances. A couple of unknown...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Viola Davis, Wars and Interventions
-
'Beautiful Creatures': Supernatural love in a small town, again ★★
When classy, pedigreed British actors go hog-wild under the flowering dogwood trees of a Southern Gothic setting, often the results are good. Just as often they're so bad they're good. And sometimes, as is the case with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson in...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Viola Davis, Literature, Richard Chamberlain
-
'Beautiful Creatures' review: Full of love, not that pretty
**1/2 (out of four) Among many reasons the “Twilight” movie franchise didn’t work, Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) make lousy characters, separately and together. Be it the script, the performances, whatever: The...
Tags: Emmy Rossum, Beautiful Creatures (movie), Robert Pattinson, Jeremy Irons, Kristen Stewart
-
Sundance: Full transcript of Women Directors' Roundtable
This is the full, unedited transcript of the Los Angeles Times Women Directors' Roundtable at the Sundance Film Festival as moderated by staff writer John Horn. John Horn : Well, congratulations for all being here, but I'm gonna start with a study...
Tags: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Movies, Golf, Crime, Law and Justice, Physical Fitness and Exercise
May 17, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
May 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2013
| Zap2It
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| Zap2It
Feb 20, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Feb 15, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
Feb 15, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Feb 13, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Feb 13, 2013
|Column| RedEye
Jan 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Richard LaGravenese topic gallery.
