Michael Nordine

Friday, Oct. 31 If you're averse to traditional horror films but still want to spend Halloween at the movies, try Old Town Music Hall's 8:15 p.m. screening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The legendary comedy duo encounter a trifecta of classic Universal monsters (Frankenstein, the Wolfman and Dracula) to produce......

Ah, October in Los Angeles. Pumpkin-flavored treats at every coffee shop and bakery, weather so brisk it occasionally drops below 70 degrees and the promise of Halloween candy just around the corner. If you seek more frightening thrills and you don't feel like driving to Universal so some dude dressed......

You've seen a few horror movies at one of Cinefamily's midnight screenings, helped Quentin Tarantino keep the New Beverly alive by going to a Tarkovsky double feature, and just renewed your American Cinematheque membership. So now what? Rather than resting on your cinematic laurels and calling it a day, perhaps......

How to describe a hipster movie? Invoking the “I know it when I see it” rule seems an easy way out of applying a definitive label to something so nebulous, but there are a number of hallmarks to be wary of. Soundtracks consisting of indie, folk, and/or anachronistic songs that......

The internet’s obsession with Nicolas Cage is long and storied. The original video of him “losing his shit” in movies garnered millions of views before being taken down from YouTube due to copyright claims and has since been re-uploaded several times over. One True God, a reddit forum dedicated to photoshopping the......

Los Angeles is one of cinema's most enduring geographical muses. Just ask the L.A. Film Festival, which has introduced a new sidebar consisting of 11 movies "set, shot or inspired by" the epicenter of the film industry. Called L.A. Muse, the program recognizes that there's something intrinsically cinematic about the......