Karina Longworth

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Lust & Larceny: Rare Film Noir Series Starts Tonight

Karina Longworth
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 annual Noir City film noir festival launches tonight at the Egyptian Theater, and the line......

The Bill Murray Movie You've Never Heard Of

Karina Longworth
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 Gremlins, and Bill Murray as the operator of an intergalactic bus line that transports elderly tourists to the moon......
Straight to the moon: Bill Murray in Nothing Lasts Forever

Bill Murray's Tale From the Crypt

Karina Longworth
The deadpan-comic sci-fi of Tom Schiller's 1984 film, Nothing Lasts Forever, unfolds in an alternate universe: California is in ruins after a major earthquake, general strikes have prompted the New York Port Authority to assume martial control of Manhattan, and the moon is now a secret shopping destination for the......
Zoe Kazan is The Exploding Girl.

In Bloom: The Exploding Girl

Karina Longworth
Those expecting action-movie pyrotechnics from Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl will be disappointed — the only loaded weapon in this indie is the title, at once a vulgar joke at the expense of its epilepsy-stricken heroine and an accurate assessment of her emotional arc. Zoe Kazan stars as the......
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5 Best Line Readings in The Hills Final Season Trailer

Karina Longworth
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 and Brody Jenner, will come to an end at the end of its upcoming season. MTV has just......
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Regency Rescues 2 Westwood Movie Theaters

Karina Longworth
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 taken over two historic Westwood theaters in danger of abandonment and subsequent demolition, the Village and the Bruin. Last......
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Movies, Not Condos: Save the Fairfax Theatre

Karina Longworth
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 posted in front of the theater promised that the three-screen, 80 year-old mini movie palace would reopen in......
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Roger Ebert's New TV Show

Karina Longworth
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 launch his own new film review TV show, to be called Roger Ebert presents At the Movies......

Prodigious Drinking, Drugs Close Doc Series at Cinefamily

Karina Longworth
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 Cinefamily is showing them both: Big River Man, about a fifty-ish, wine-guzzling Slovenian who attempts to swim the Amazon......