RICHARD III - presented by The Garage Theatre
- By Shannon Roberts, 10-22-09
Richard III has a hunch he’s gonna be king. Usually, that hunch is on his back. Not so in the Garage Theatre’s production, playing through Saturday October 24th.
I am often dubious about going to see shows in small storefront theatres, but after the Garage Theatre’s recent production of Cannibal! [...]
By Jasper Oliver, 08-08-09
Hollywood in general, and horror in particular, have long been indicted by cultural analysts and civil activists for a voracious un-originality in execution. The former diagnose a narcoleptic inability on the part of the story weavers to awaken from recycled plot structures, and the latter call foul on any damnable stereotype [...]
Moments after James Cameron unveiled over 20 minutes of footage from his new film, missives of praise flooded social networking sites, ripe with otherwise-overused blurb-speak like “Stunning!”, “Dazzling!”, “Mind-blowing!”, you name it. In absolute agreement with what seems to have been a unanimously positive assessment of the footage, I found myself with jaw agape [...]
Comi-Con: LOST PanelSo on Saturday June 24th, the LOST Panel made its final appearance at Comic Con. After 5 glorious seasons, LOST is heading into its final season, and there were to be no more Comic Con panels.
To say that the expectations were high for the LOST Panel would be an understatement. About 40 or so die [...]
By Terry Smith
This is my tribute to Michael Jackson, via my Anjelica Huston interview where I ask her about working with a young Michael Jackson…
I was lucky enough to interview the cast of CHOKE last year, including the great Anjelica Huston. She was gracious enough to take questions about her past work, including her [...]
By Terry Smith, 04-12-09
Yes, just when you [may] have thought the light at the end of the Karaoke tunnel was daylight. Wrong! It’s a train, or to be specific the Movieoke Express. Wikipedia defines Movieoke as “… a form of entertainment in which an amateur actor or actors perform along with a muted DVD in [...]
By Shannon Roberts, 04-29-09
Yes, I know. Twilight came out last week. Would you believe me if I said it took me a full week to process what took place at the Borders in Long Beach last Friday night? I might not believe me either, if I hadn’t been there. I’m still [...]
Long Beach’s Art Theatre - independent movie house, wine bar, live music venue, and…circus!?
What better way to celebrate the return of 1988’s Killer Klowns from Outer Space last Friday night than by transforming the Art into a wild Big Top, complete with balloons, a toy for every person, and…clowns clowns clowns!!
Courtesy of the makeup skills [...]
TOP TWENTY MOVIE BADASSESSo I was inspired tonight after watching James Cagney’s ferocious performance as Arthur ‘Cody’ Jarrett in 1949’s White Heat to think back on some of cinema’s baddest mother-f**ckers. Here, with apologies to the overlooked, are my Top Twenty Movie Bad-Asses.
#20
Sgt. Dudley Smith
James Cromwell
L.A. Confidential
It takes some balls to orchestrate a total takeover of Los [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movie theatre, SHOWGIRLS struck again…
Ahh Showgirls … You can see it a dozen times, and still marvel at just how colossal a cinematic experience it is. Standing above its camp peers for actually trying to be an earnest, quality studio film, [...]
God I love Eric and Brian at the Grindhouse. Their events are always a blast: rare trailers, fun giveaways, and 35mm prints of movies like this week’s Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde and Black Fist (aka Bogard, aka Homeboy…), two insanely awesome blaxploitation classics that are rare enough to find and see, let alone on the [...]
XANADU ROLLS INTO LONG BEACH!First off, thanks once again to Conner Che for his fantastic flyer design. You outdid yourself with Xanadu, sir - who could resist after getting their hands on this baby??
And what a wild crowd we wrangled in, clapping and singing along to their favorite songs, heckling poor Michael “Aw, what the hell - [...]
PEACHES CHRIST: THE MONDO CELLULOID INTERVIEWIt’s good to have role models…
When I launched Mondo Midnights, it was with a healthy dose of inspiration from two beloved cinephiles - Monsieur Phil Blankenship of New Beverly Midnights, and San Francisco’s favorite drag phenomenon-turned-cult cinema programmer and emcee, Peaches Christ.
Ms. Christ is the genius behind Midnight Mass, a screening series of camp classics [...]
THE SIXTH DIMENSION INVADES LONG BEACH!Like something out of one of my wildest high school dreams, the Sixth Dimension of Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone sprang to life Friday night as dancing frogs, preened pretty princesses, and Richard Elfman himself took over 4th Street for an amazing night at Long Beach’s Art Theatre.
Richard Elfman looks on as the line crawls around [...]
THIS AIN’T NO WHITE CHRISTMAS: RUDY RAY MOORE TRIBUTE AT THE GRINDHOUSESome years ago—never mind how many—I went to the Knitting Factory to see “Dolemite” Rudy Ray Moore and filth-funk masked-man Blowfly play a double-bill together. The opening act was a bunch of foul-mouthed teenagers making like the Moldy Peaches-meets-electroclash; a real atrocity with a wit-free and punny name like the Fisticunts or something, as [...]
MALICE IN RETAIL-LANDI consider myself to be an artist. As a result, I am often forced to seek employment in the retail and/or customer service industry in order to pay my rent. These are my adventures in this fascinating world. The names and places have been changed to protect the innocent. And my [...]
RICHARD ELFMAN - The Terry Smith InterviewIn anticipation of Mondo Celluloid’s upcoming screening, writer and avid film enthusiast Terry Smith has interviewed director Richard Elfman for the Art Theatre!
Terry has invited me to post his interview on the Mondo Celluloid site - visit The Art Inside to read and keep up on all his great interviews and reviews!
Cult film director of [...]
When you think of corsets, knee-high leather boots, and bad dialects you probably think, as I would, Bauhaus concert. But throw in a few bayonets and a hoop skirt or two and you’ve got yourself a full fledged Civil War reenactment.
If the concept conjures images of the Renaissance Faire you’re not too far off [...]
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 - A SURVIVOR’S STORYSo Saturday morning I watched High School Musical at the El Capitan…
And look, before I lose all credibility as a passionate connoiseur and enthusiast of all things gore and sleaze, let me back up…
I suppose it all started that day a couple years back when I read that Billboard’s 1 album was the soundtrack to [...]
In honor of Halloween, I’d like to honor five moments in film that, years after they first made me piss myself, can still make me jump out of my seat or run a chill up my spine.
5
in bed with Alice
in
Lost Highway
Credit much this thriller’s effect to the genius sound design - an otherwise somewhat flawed [...]
REDISCOVERING “BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA”Pretty much anyone will agree that 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula looked and sounded amazing, but beyond that it’s always been fair game - for every devotee who can quote the film line by line, there’s a detractor who ranks it among the most disappointing horror films of the 1990’s. And with perhaps the rare, unforgivable [...]
INSANITY AT THE VISTA (or, VICTOR TO THE RESCUE!)Well holy shit…
First off, thanks again SO much to all of you who came out Saturday night for Sick Girl! It was a tad of a risky experiment to screen a movie very few have heard of, but I felt Sick Girl warranted the big screen, midnight audience treatment. It seemed to me the [...]
Wow! So apprently I’m not the only one who finds the promise of a Quentin Tarantino-directed, Tera Patrick-starring remake of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! less than promising…
After posting my bulletin about this yesterday, in which I equated the recasting of Tura Satana’s iconic “Varla” to that of Atticus Finch, Frank Booth, or Alex DeLarge, [...]
PABST BLUE RIBBON!! (and Blue Velvet cupcakes!)I posted a bulletin about this a few days ago, but for those of you who missed it…
There will be NO Pabst Blue Ribbon given away on Friday night!!
The owners of the Vista felt it might not be in the best interests of the theater to imbibe you all with cans of a wet sticky [...]
Hello you wild insomniacs!
First of all, did you know that the bathroom at Raffallo’s, the Italian restaurant on Sunset & Fuller, has a vending machine in the bathroom that sells toothbrushes? With toothpaste already on the toothbrush? It does, I swear! There’s a picture and everything!
So yeah, Saturday night was great, [...]
CAFE AT THE VISTA! BLACK DEVIL DOLL! HAJI! GEEKSCAPE!Two days before the big show, and already I have some great new friends to give big heaping thanks to. Saturday’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! screening is going to be a blast, all the more so thanks to these fine people:
Cafe at the Vista
Big thanks to Shelli and the fine folks at Cafe at the [...]
The New Beverly did it again last night, with Edgar Wright launching his two-week film festival with the double-feature screening of Bugsy Malone and Phantom of the Paradise, as well as some killer surprises, to a near sold-out crowd.
After a trio of musical trailers (I’m hoping the audience’s reaction to the [...]
