Email Author Karina Longworth

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 5, 2010

  "Sundance's Rebel Yell"

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2010 Stories by Karina Longworth

• JACKASS 3-D

  published October 21, 2010

  JACKASS 3-D The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players —... More >>

• GHETTOPHYSICS

  published October 21, 2010

  GHETTOPHYSICS Co-directed by William Arntz, the theorist/funder behind pseudoscience quasi-doc What the Bleep Do We... More >>

• JACKASS 3D

  published October 14, 2010

  JACKASS 3D The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players—including a midget... More >>

• JACKASS 3D

  published October 7, 2010

  JACKASS 3D The ultra-lo-fi, skate-culture-spawned, extreme-stunt brand that turned its freak show of featured players—including a midget... More >>

• Life As We Know It

  published October 7, 2010

  LIFE AS WE KNOW IT Set up on a blind date by their married best friends, Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Messer (Josh Duhamel) show... More >>

• Edward Norton: Dancing With Himself

  published October 7, 2010

  Movie stars make a living peddling distinct, definable personalities. Edward Norton, a movie star who might have enjoyed the... More >>

• BARRY MUNDAY

  published September 30, 2010

  BARRY MUNDAY Patrick Wilson unconvincingly hides his male-model bod and visage under a layer of dough and a greasy goatee in... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Elvira's World

  published September 23, 2010

  Check out our picks for the "Top 5 Elvira... More >>

• Movie Review: Buried

  published September 23, 2010

  BURIED Paul (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver for a KBR-type contractor in Iraq, is captured in an insurgent attack... More >>

• How to Hallucinate Without Drugs

  published September 23, 2010

  A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé's Enter the... More >>

• Sleepless in Toronto

  published September 23, 2010

  It was the best of TIFFs, it was the worst of TIFFs. While the trade pubs breathlessly trumpeted the flurry of deals that took... More >>

• Lovers of Hate: Thrillercore

  published September 16, 2010

  In Brian Poyser's hilarious, unexpectedly suspenseful love-triangle indie Lovers of Hate, a loser, would-be novelist (Chris Doubek)... More >>

• Catfish: Love in the Time of Facebook

  published September 16, 2010

  What is Catfish? That question is an implicit part of the film's marketing campaign, which, with the tagline "Don't... More >>

• Fear and Self-Loathing

  published September 9, 2010

  The 1953 New York Times review opened with the kind of qualified, mildly patronizing praise that's become the default... More >>

• The Joke's on Who?

  published September 9, 2010

  I'm Still Here — "that Joaquin Phoenix movie" — capitalizes on an anxiety that's very... More >>

• Movie Review: Going the Distance

  published September 2, 2010

  GOING THE DISTANCE "What really matters is what you like, not what you are like," says John Cusack in High Fidelity, a very... More >>

• Inception's Kiss

  published September 2, 2010

  Though this has been widely lambasted as the worst summer movie season EVER, we emerge from 2010's tentpole wars to a cultural... More >>

• Machete: Blades of Gory

  published September 2, 2010

  In 1993, inspired by his second cousin Danny Trejo's work in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez wrote a screenplay around... More >>

• Sex, Thugs and Catholic Rage

  published August 26, 2010

  Gone With the Pope is a '70s-era low-budget exploitation flick about a crew of bumbling Italian gangsters who come up with an... More >>

• Life Is Beautiful

  published August 19, 2010

  The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called "Baster," published in The New... More >>

• The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector: Having Lost That Lovin' Feeling

  published August 19, 2010

  "You've got an actress in career distress, meeting an over-the-hill legend, and at the end of it, there's a dead woman in a... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Live Review: Lady Gaga at Staples Center

  published Aug 12, 2010

  View more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow, "Lady Gaga (and Little Monsters) @ Staples Center." "I've actually been in the studio for about 72 hours straight," Lady Gaga told the crowd about halfw... More >>

• Revenge of the Spazzes

  published August 12, 2010

  In 1985-86, 25-year-old CalArts animation grad Savage Steve Holland wrote and directed — and got Warner Bros. to fund... More >>

• Cairo Time: Love Among the Pyramids

  published August 5, 2010

  New York mag editor Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) travels alone to Cairo to meet her husband, who works for the United Nations in Gaza. When... More >>

• Tarantino's Angst

  published August 5, 2010

  A film built around ticking clocks, perhaps it's fitting that Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown today plays as a time... More >>