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“Nikki Finke Is a Badass” … and Other Judgmental Comments

Mark Mauer
It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four different contests. In the AltWeekly Awards, jointly administered by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, L.A. Weekly came away......

The Brave One: Femme Fatal

Scott Foundas
In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio DJ Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central Park mugging and becomes an urban crusader devoted to cleaning up the city — with a Glock instead of a broom. Yes, The Brave One is that movie: the one......

Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

LA Weekly
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE  See film featureGO BLAME IT ON FIDEL While her friends play cops and robbers, broodingly precocious 9-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel) is asked by younger brother François to play “Allende and Franco,” the late Chilean president and notorious socialist being the “good guy.” Adapted from an Italian novel......