“Print Media is Dead!” Well, not exactly dead but it is slowly dying. Numerous newspapers across the country have gone out of business since the Internet grew exponentially, providing immediate content distribution via a free source model. Some of the largest newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times (and its sister publications) have been forced into […]
Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF)
LAFF Film Review: Another Earth
Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) is your average teenager, enjoying a night of partying with her friends after her recent acceptance to MIT for college. Like many teenagers, she drives herself home from the party, and just maybe she should have taken a cab. But it is not her inebriated state that will cause events that […]
LAFF Film Review: Tomboy
When you look at the photo above do you see a boy or a girl? Would the child’s name be Michael or Laure? The role of gender identity in Celine Sciamma’s second feature film Tomboy is front and center as her protagonist, a 10 year-old girl, pretends to be a boy over the course […]
LAFF Film Review: Familiar Ground (En Terrains Connus)
The dry humor that surrounds Familiar Ground (En Terrains Connus) is just that, dry–a lifeless, suburban enclave of Quebec where the most interesting amusement comes in the form of a giant blue inflatable something or other in front of a car dealership. This is not to say the film isn’t good, far from that actually. […]
LAFF Film Review: Hot Coffee
Frivolous lawsuits, tort reform, caps on damages, just a few legal terms that if you asked the average person on the street the likelihood they would know what these things are is questionable–or at least that is the belief Director Susan Saladoff wants you to have given her on-the-street interviews in the documentary Hot […]
