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Alamo Drafthouse’s Video Vortex Comes to Los Angeles
Calling all film buffs, Video Vortex is set to arrive in downtown L.A. this year! The soon-to-be-opened Alamo Drafthouse Los Angeles (summer 2019) has just announced that an L.A. branch of the video store & bar—already located in San Francisco as … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Events, Miscellanious, Movies, Upcoming Events
Tagged alamo drafthouse, arcade, board games, Downtown L.A., video store, video vortex, vidiots
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Book Review: “A Boy and His Dog at The End of The World”
“A Boy and His Dog at The End of The World” by C. A. Fletcher—unrelated to Harlan Ellison’s “A Boy and His Dog” and its famous film adaptation—is the story of young Griz, who lives with his family on a … Continue reading
“Be Natural” Honors Highly Influential First Female Filmmaker
“Be Natural” is a documentary by Pamela B. Green about the first female filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, who remains largely unknown by many modern filmmakers and the general public. Narrated by Jodie Foster, and using visually interesting graphics to move the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Movies
Tagged alice guy-blache, be natural, film history, Hollywood, jodie foster, pamela b. green, silent films
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“Starfish” Blends Grief With Lovecraft In Unexpected Ways
“Starfish” is a dreamy, atmospheric film that blends a young woman’s grief over the death of her best friend—and guilt over an unrelated infidelity—with a sudden apocalyptic event similar to the premise of the 2013 movie “Banshee Chapter,” which in … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Movies
Tagged A.T. White, apocalypse, cancer, H. P. Lovecraft, monsters, starfish, virginia gardner
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Fantasies and Fairy Tales at LACMA
One of the newer exhibits currently at LACMA is Fantasies and Fairy Tales, which features artwork and graphic design mostly from the late 1800s and early 1900s that was inspired by myths, fairy tales and legends. There are a few … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Miscellanious
Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, graphic design, LACMA, myths
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A List of Favorites From 2018
As usual, my Year End list doesn’t include much released in the current year, because I’m a slow mover with a tendency to look back over my shoulder. But here are some things I discovered this year that I recommend. … Continue reading
‘Silencio’ Intrigues But Stumbles Over Its Magic Stone
“Silencio,” written and directed by Lorena Villarreal, is a film about the consequences of altering the past, unique in that the main character’s very existence is due to such an alteration. Ana (Melina Matthews) is a single mother and a … Continue reading
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Tagged cobalt 57, john noble, lorena villarreal, rupert graves, sci-fi, Time Travel, zone of silence
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Leave The Light On: 8 Creepy Books for Halloween Time
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Ahem, I mean Halloween. And while there are plenty of excellent, well-known horror novels out there for you to cuddle up with this season, here are eight creepy books that might not … Continue reading
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Tagged A Madness So Discreet, Audrey Niffenegger, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, dracula, Elizabeth Kostova, ghosts, Halloween, haunted house, Her Fearful Symmetry, horror, Jennifer McMahon, John Connolly, M.R. Carey, Mindy McGinnis, Pet Cemetery, Robert Browning, Sarah Waters, scary books, Stephen Lloyd Jones, supernatural, The Book of Lost Things, the girl with all the gifts, The Historian, The Little Stranger, The String Diaries, The Winter People, thingstodoinLAforHalloweenwhenyourenotdead, thrillers, vampires, zombies
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