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

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  David Lynch Double Feature

  published Apr 07, 2010

  Tonight the New Beverly kicks off a three-day run of a David Lynch double feature: the underrated/underseen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, followed by the wide critical consensus choice for the best f... More >>

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  Banksy, The Movie

  published Apr 07, 2010

  Tomorrow's LA Weekly cover story focuses on mysterious street artist Banksy, who is the star and quasi-director of the new documentary, Exit at the Gift Shop, which opens in LA on April 16. Below the ... More >>

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  The Sexiest Rainy Day Scene Ever

  published Apr 05, 2010

  This morning's storm seems to have passed, but you can live through one of the greatest rainy day scenes in all of cinema tonight at UCLA. As part of their ongoing tribute to Humphrey Bogart, the UC... More >>

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  Teenage Superhero-themed Burlesque

  published Apr 05, 2010

  Kick-Ass is a movie, based on Mark Millar's comic book and coming out in theaters on April 16, about a couple of teenage nerds, and one delusional, psychotic revenge-seeking-cop-spawned 11 year old gi... More >>

• Lust & Larceny: Rare Film Noir Series Starts Tonight

  published Apr 02, 2010

  Haunted studio backlots! Stewardesses in peril! Mickey Rooney as "a car mechanic whose craving for fast cars and faster women steers him into a blind alley in which there are no pit stops"!!! The 12th... More >>

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  The Bill Murray Movie You've Never Heard Of

  published Apr 01, 2010

  In today's print edition of the LA Weekly, I wrote a story on Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever, an amazing, never-released and rarely screened 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Zach Galligan from Gremli... More >>

• In Bloom: The Exploding Girl

  published April 1, 2010

  Those expecting action-movie pyrotechnics from Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl will be disappointed —... More >>

• Bill Murray's Tale From the Crypt

  published April 1, 2010

  The deadpan-comic sci-fi of Tom Schiller's 1984 film, Nothing Lasts Forever, unfolds in an alternate universe:... More >>

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  5 Best Line Readings in The Hills Final Season Trailer

  published Mar 30, 2010

  As you may have heard, The Hills, the glossy MTV "reality" series set in an alternate universe version of LA, that spawned the "careers" of celebusomethings Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Lauren Conrad ... More >>

• Regency Rescues 2 Westwood Movie Theaters

  published Mar 30, 2010

  Regency Theaters, the movie theater chain that was recently forced to leave the Fairfax Theatre when the building's landlord opted not to fix the theater's roof, announced this morning that they've ta... More >>

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  Movies, Not Condos: Save the Fairfax Theatre

  published Mar 29, 2010

  The Fairfax Theatre, on Beverly at Fairfax kitty-corner to the CBS Television City, has been closed since January, when the roof partially collapsed due to long-term neglect and heavy rains. A sign p... More >>

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  Roger Ebert's New TV Show

  published Mar 25, 2010

  After yesterday's announcement by ABC-Disney that they're canceling the long-running film critic sparring session At the Movies, original thumb-upper Roger Ebert posted on his blog about his plans to ... More >>

• Prodigious Drinking, Drugs Close Doc Series at Cinefamily

  published Mar 25, 2010

  The final installment of the month-long Thursday documentary series at the Silent Movie Theater is tonight, and it's one hell of a double feature. John Maringouin has made two documentaries, and C... More >>

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  James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck: Fight Between World's Two Most Annoying Men

  published Mar 25, 2010

  Today in Inane Squabbles Between Successful Assholes: James Cameron (ex-husband of Kathryn Bigelow and director of Avatar), and Glenn Beck, Fox News personality and mastermind behind the book and on... More >>

• Harmony and Me and Frustration

  published March 25, 2010

  Bob Byington sat with a journalist last August in an empty theater in Michigan, where the two feature films he's directed in... More >>

• At the Movies Sans Siskel & Ebert Cancelled

  published Mar 24, 2010

  Kevin Smith's implication that film critics are over-cushioned got swift counterpoint this afternoon: Disney-ABC has announced that it is canceling At the Movies, the long-running film review TV show ... More >>

• SXSW: Gone to the Masses

  published March 25, 2010

  The tagline for the recently concluded 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival was "Tomorrow Happens Here." It was slick... More >>

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  Kevin Smith's Twitter Campaign Against Critics

  published Mar 24, 2010

  After almost exactly a month in theaters, Kevin Smith's Cop Out has made $42.7 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing film directed by the sometime-indie icon, by a substantial marg... More >>

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  A Proposal to Move the Hollywood Sign

  published Mar 24, 2010

  Calm down--it's just an art thing. Artists Jeffrey Inaba and Darien Williams have created a photo-illustrated "proposal for the migratory distribution of the Hollywood sign across Los Angeles." The p... More >>

• POPEYE 3D: Who Says There Are No Jobs For Journalistsr

  published Mar 23, 2010

  Last night, Variety broke the news that Sony is launching a new, CGI 3D Popeye franchise. The 1920s-era comics will be adapted by Mike Jones, who was a journalist on the indie industry/film festival b... More >>

• Shorty, Represent: Film Registry Inductees via LA Filmforum

  published Mar 18, 2010

  Every year, in addition to Hollywood and foreign industry films that have been widely seen/heard of, the Library of Congress adds a number of short and/or avant-garde works to the National Film Regist... More >>

• Twisted Sisters: The Runaways on Empty

  published March 18, 2010

  There's an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a... More >>

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  Growing Pains: Inside the SXSW Film Awards

  published Mar 17, 2010

  Tonight's SXSW Film Awards began with a speech, apparently conceived at the last minute, by SXSW co-founder and Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black. With negative buzz building against the festival'... More >>

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  Macgruber: Late 80s Nostalgia For Boys Born in the 90s.

  published Mar 16, 2010

  "It's good to be back home in Austin, Texas,' said Jorma Taccone, Saturday Night Live writer and director of Macgruber, the sketch-to-film starring Will Forte and Kristen Wiig that debuted at SXSW l... More >>

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  James Franco's Saturday Night Live Doc: Unintentionally Fascinating

  published Mar 14, 2010

  James Franco was a no show on Sunday night for the SXSW world premiere of his feature-documentary directorial debut, Saturday Night, a behind-the-scenes look at the week-long production of a December... More >>