Mark Olsen writes about all kinds of movies for the Los Angeles Times as both a feature writer and reviewer. He creates a regular series on independent, documentary and foreign language films under the banner of Indie Focus, also curating and hosting the Indie Focus Screening Series. His work has also appeared in Film Comment, the New York Times, LA Weekly, Sight & Sound and other publications. He is from Kansas.
Latest From This Author
Also this week: Tsui Hark’s “Shanghai Blues” restored, Kenneth Branagh’s “Much Ado About Nothing” and “The Spirit of ’76.”
The writer, director and star of the deeply personal ‘Sorry, Baby’ is one of the year’s breakthrough talents, displaying a nuanced way with trauma and friendship alike.
Four-time Academy Award nominee Denis Villeneuve, currently working on the third ‘Dune’ film, will direct the next film in the long-running James Bond franchise.
Also this week: Millennial Y2K anxieties with “Rebels of the Neon Millennium” and the 70th anniversary of “The Seven Year Itch.”
Director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Alex Garland and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle return to the terrifying world they created for 2002’s ’28 Days Later.’
Also this week: A retrospective of Roberto Minervini, the 25th anniversary of ‘Bring It On’ and the cult classic ‘Cobra Woman.’
In this week’s episode of The Envelope, Janelle James discusses ‘Abbott Elementary,’ and Aaron Pierre details the training required to master the ‘seamless’ action of ‘Rebel Ridge.’
How the popular YouTube talk show became an established stop on the Hollywood promo tour — with a little help from Charlize Theron.