Film
This award-winning documentary offers precious glimpses of what music, or artistic activity, can mean in the life of a highly talented individual.
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What makes Chupa stand out from similar films is that, at its heart, it is a testament to embracing your heritage.
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Southern California’s venerable Laemmle Theaters is facing a triple whammy: financial failure, shrinking audiences, and Covid closures.
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Showing Up offers a much different kind of artist and art scene than we’re used to seeing in film.
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A new documentary about the John Lennon and May Pang affair is insightful but not exactly unbiased
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There could have been more serious attention to the music, more of his immortal rock songs played start to finish. Otherwise, Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything is the documentary about the Black and Queer rock’n’roll icon we’ve been waiting for.
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Local film festivals like BUFF are keeping what’s left of the American film industry from turning into a massive IP holder churning out algorithmically generated slop for the masses.
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The Lost King contains perhaps too many calculated moments of sentimental synchronicity. Still, it manages to soar, thanks to the excellent performance of its lead, Sally Hawkins.
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.
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The Worst Ones is a distinctive cinematic achievement – it is deeply moving film that offers a critique of itself.
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