by Jordan Young | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Remember when actors were the special effects? The OC premiere of Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman (at the Chance Theater in Anaheim through Oct. 24) exemplifies what makes live theater so magical, at a pivotal time in this era of pandemic—the art of storytelling, a...
by Jordan Young | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Eddie Muller has made TCM’s Noir Alley must-see TV #1. Figured I could skip the flick last weekend since I’d already seen it, and just watch his intro/outro. Right? That strategy might work elsewhere, but the host with the most makes the introduction so damn...
by Jordan Young | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
You can never be quite sure what you’re going to get when you go see a play by Wendy Graf, but you can be sure it’s going to be something of substance. Hands and legs inside the car and buckle your seatbelt, it’s going to take you for quite a ride—if the four plays of...
by Jordan Young | Aug 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
So many vintage films on home video, so little time. An obscure little film like “The Man In Search of His Murderer” (available from Kino on Blu-ray) could easily get lost in the shuffle. And that would be a real pity. For this offbeat black comedy with overtones of...
by Jordan Young | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which boasted “more stars than there are in heaven” in the so-called golden age of Hollywood, went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the private lives of its stars from the public in the 1920s and ‘30s. They would “fix” speeding tickets and...
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