June 15th, 2026 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
The year 1990 was a wildly contrasting one for cinematic romance. While Garry Marshall was feeding audiences the sanitized, corporate fairy tale of Pretty Woman, director Luis Mandoki took a grittier, sweatier, and much more honest swing with White Palace. Both films tackle the collision of two very different worlds, but where Pretty Woman gives us a […]
April 16th, 2018 by Aaron Neuwirth
This July, the Criterion Collection will pay tribute to one of cinema’s most legendary collaborations with Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood, a lavish box set featuring six newly restored classics starring the alluring Marlene Dietrich and directed by the visually extravagant Josef von Sternberg: Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress, and The Devil Is a Woman. Steven Soderbergh’s disarmingly frank […]
March 13th, 2013 by David Freedman
Salim, Aaron and Leah are surprised by this movie. Watch the review and find out why! John’s son is wrongly jailed as a drug dealer. With Jason facing a 10 year sentence, John agrees to go undercover. By infiltrating a drug ring, John risks everything to free his son. WATCH US ON PBS SOCAL Saturdays […]
October 25th, 2012 by Aaron Neuwirth
For all the sequels and blockbuster we have gotten this year, an ambitious, high-budgeted, semi-independent film has certainly tried to push itself to the top as well. Cloud Atlas is one of the more unique films I have seen this year, as it not only swaps between six different storylines, but six different time periods, […]