by Jordan R. Young | Apr 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Stephanie Brait in “Colby.” The Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens tonight, screens something like 100 feature-length narrative films. It’s a global grab bag of indies and studio flicks in every conceivable genre. Among the films this writer has...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
More than 350 films from 50 countries are slated for the 16th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, Apr. 21-Apr. 28. Special events, red carpet galas, conversations with filmmakers, international spotlight events and seminars are all part of the mix. The popular...
by Jordan R. Young | Mar 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
What do Jews do on Purim? This one went to see “Book of Mormon,” natch (at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts, where it runs through Apr. 3). This Trey Parker-Robert Lopez-Matt Stone musical appears to be an amusing but innocuous satire at first, opening with...
by Jordan R. Young | Mar 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
LA Opera’s production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” (through Mar. 6 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) is surprisingly cartoony. It makes extensive use of animation; at its best it’s as wild and surreal as the work of Tex Avery. At other times it’s downright silly, too...
by Jordan R. Young | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
John Logan’s “Red” (at South Coast Repertory through Feb. 21) does what great theatre should do—it engages people to think. The Tony Award-winning play, ostensibly about abstract painter Mark Rothko, can pretty much be summed up by its opening line: “What do you see?”...
by Jordan R. Young | Jan 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Baby Peggy in “The Family Secret” Star Wars redux? No thanks. Charlie Chaplin on Blu-ray? More my cup of java. The Little Tramp was truly a Force to be reckoned with a century ago—arguably the most famous man in the world after a year of cranking out insane knockabout...
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