When I was in grade school, in the 1970s, my teacher caught me reading the Bantam paperback of William Peter Blatty’s bestselling novel, The Exorcist. (I had sw...
“Potential has a shelf-life,” Margaret Atwood wrote in her novel Cat’s Eye, a brutal assessment writer-director-star Radha Blank disproves with élan in her wond...
In Residue, the superb debut film from writer-director Merawi Gerima, Jay (Obinna Nwachukwu), a budding filmmaker who has returned to his Washington D.C. neighb...
L.A. Weekly’s Movie Guide is your look at the hottest films available on your TV sets, electronic devices and in select drive-ins and theaters throughout Southe...
L.A. Weekly’s Movie Guide is your look at the hottest films available on your TV sets, electronic devices and — as coronavirus restrictions continue to change —...
Director Sam Feder’s new documentary Disclosure — a fascinating overview of transgender representation in film and television as seen through the eyes of over 3...
Once upon a time, there was a summer camp in the Catskills region of upstate New York where physically challenged teens went to do the things kids the world ove...
Sure, we’re all stuck at home but that doesn’t mean we can’t go to the movies — we can do it from the couch. Our screens, thru cable and online on demand servic...
Longtime L.A. Weekly film critic F. X. Feeney, whose soulful writing is an indelible part of the paper’s legacy, died unexpectedly this week at the age of 66. F...
On Oscar day, it’s not unusual for a movie critic to receive several (slightly frantic) text messages from friends seeking advice on the office awards pool: “Wh...
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