Michael Ordoña has covered film and television for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. He has also reviewed movies for Common Sense Media. He is an alumnus of both the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Berkeley High School, and freely admits to a blatant Bay Area bias in all sports.
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Renowned actress and activist Jane Fonda adds the Cecil B. DeMille Award to her previous seven honors from the Golden Globes.
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Armie Hammer, Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly star in attempted thriller about the opioid “Crisis.”
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The actress stars and produces the black and white movie with a strained relationship at its core.
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