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Movie Review: Turnover, a Charming and Heartwarming Comedy about Lovable Misfits

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Billy Bennight

Turnover is a heartwarming comedy starring a cast of zany characters and charming misfits. It all revolves around a restaurant in Southern California owned and operated by Peter (played by Paul Guilfoyle), who is transformed by a series of happenstances … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: ‘Softness of Bodies’ at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Billy Bennight

Charlotte Parks lives in Berlin; Charlotte hula hoops; Charlotte is a cyclist, Charlotte is a poet; Charlotte rolls her own cigarettes; Charlotte is a shoplifter and Charlotte is going to face a reckoning . . . maybe, maybe not. Charlotte, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Madeline’s Madeline: A Surrealist Expressionist Coming of Age Drama

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Billy Bennight

Madeline’s Madeline is part of the independent film movement that embraces surrealism, symbolism and expressionism as a way to tell a story. There is a ‘don’t look away’ visceral sense memory sensibility driving this uniques film. The cinematography is very much a … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Tales of the American with an Exclusive Interview with Girl George

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Billy Bennight

The documentary film, Tales of the American, to put it simply, is an onion. It peels away years of cultural debris, exposing the history of a century-old hotel originally called The Canadian and built for African-Americans by architect Octavius Morgan. Over … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: ‘Skid Row Marathon’ at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Billy Bennight

Skid Row Marathon is an amazing feature-length documentary about Judge Craig Mitchell and his running club in DTLA’s Skid Row. Judge Craig Mitchell is a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County appointed by by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. As a … Continue reading →

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The Love Witch: A Kitchy Witchy Cult Classic In The Making!

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Billy Bennight

Trish (Laura Waddell), asks Elaine (Samantha Robinson), “What do men really want?” “Just a pretty woman to love them, to take care of them,” was Elaine’s response, setting the tone of the “The Love Witch.” This campy comedic-thriller by Anna Biller … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Political Animals” at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Billy Bennight

Sheila Kuehl, a child actress and one time regular as Zelda on Dobie Gillis, finds her political footing in California’s political theater as the first openly gay state Senator. “Political Animals” is the story of four openly gay elected state politicians, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “11:55” at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Billy Bennight

Victor Almanzar stars in “11:55,” as Nelson Sanchez, a marine freshly returned from Iraq to his family and in particular, his sister Angie, played by Elizabeth Rodriguez. The first part of the indie feature establishes their relationship before expanding the story to … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Knight of Cups

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Dave Soyars

Many years ago, I had a friend tell me that Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” was his favorite song, because he could so relate to it. His take was that it was about having a rich, varied life, but one that was totally out of the control of … Continue reading →

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2oolander: Why I Like Number 2

Posted on February 11, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

I took my 17 year old and his buddy to see 2oolander tonight, and we laughed through the entire movie. In fact, the whole theater did. I found all of the cameos amusing; beginning with Justin Bieber and ending with Tommy Hilfiger. … Continue reading →

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