Hollywood Progressive

Black Bear

Charles Orloski — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:06:34 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Charles Orloski: White-trash, I fired, CRACK-Crack – the bear ran, never saw my tin-badge.

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Bill Meyer — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:39:03 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Bill Meyer: Vittorio has offered a passionate partisan portrayal of a world figure loved by many who feel he was unjustly convicted, a film filled with love for Mumia and his quest for justice.

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Viewer Beware: Identity Thief Will Steal Your Time and Money.

Ed Rampell — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:07:32 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Ed Rampell: The odiously unfunny Identity Thief is the latest installment in the “women behaving badly” cycle that has included the far funnier Bridesmaids and even Bad Teacher.

Viewer Beware: Identity Thief Will Steal Your Time and Money.

5 Broken Cameras: We Know How to Live

Christine Baniewicz — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:47:18 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Christine Baniewicz: Anyone who falls beneath Emad’s lens is portrayed in all their nuance; in despondency and joy, grief and mischief and rage. Watching the film, I felt everything his characters felt onscreen.

5 Broken Cameras: We Know How to Live

The Eagles Through Gibney’s Lens

Wendy Block — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:19:36 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Wendy Block: If you love(d) the Eagles in any or all of their configurations,; if you love California or the '70s (or wish you remembered the '70s!), see History of the Eagles -- The Story of an American Band.

The Eagles Through Gibney’s Lens

Rite On!: Nijinsky and Stravinsky’s Sacre Centennial Springs Onto Chandler’s Stage

Ed Rampell — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 04:11:51 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Ed Rampell: The good news is that while the Angelenos filling the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion did not appear to be pistol-packing, Sacre still packs a punch a century later.

Rite On!: Nijinsky and Stravinsky’s Sacre Centennial Springs Onto Chandler’s Stage

Ruta Sepetys Land of Grim Make-Believe

Charles Orloski — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:53:03 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Charles Orloski: Inside my car, fearing dehydration, I flipped on air-conditioner, noted the title of Parente's “children book,” and it was Ruta Sepetys' novel, Between Shades of Gray.”

Ruta Sepetys Land of Grim Make-Believe

Come Home, America!

Gary Corseri — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:23:57 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Gary Corseri: We sang full-throated, not knowing what “brotherhood”--even “goodness”—meant, while we gorged on comic-book wars and glory.

Come Home, America!

Django Unloved

Tom Hall — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:02:01 +0000

From the Hollywood Progressive

Tom Hall: Quentin Tarantino is a masterful teller of some types of stories. Need the screen drenched in blood, he’s your guy. Need snarky dialog, that sounds authentic until the 3rd or 4th hearing, he’ll write it. Need nuanced, multidimensional characters - try someone else.

Django Unloved

The Real Reel News (As of January Something, 2013)

Gary Corseri — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:37:47 +0000

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Gary Corseri: Someone said that the War was finally over in Iraq and someone asked where was Iraq anyway, and someone else said it was near Iran which wanted to wipe Israel off the map.

The Real Reel News (As of January Something, 2013)