The long awaited sequel is both extremely ambitious and frustratingly underwhelming.
Read MoreAfter a very intense month of rehearsal, ranging from four to six hours a day, the cast of Moon Over Buffalo took to the Theater Arts main stage at Santa Monica College on Thursday September 28, 2017, for their preview showing. It takes place in 1953 and is about the madcap comedy, Moon Over Buffalo.
Read MoreOn the evening of Tuesday, September 26th, Santa Monica College hosted a screening of the documentary West Los. “I’m not Charlie from Culver City, I’m just Charlie.” Charlie Chacon, a first time filmmaker from Culver City, says this to highlight why he is making this documentary. He has spent the last three years trying to create a film about how the lowrider culture within West Los Angeles was a way to unite former rival neighborhoods.
Read MorePennywise terrifies a whole new generation of audiences.
Read MoreChester Bennington has passed, marking yet another sad loss this year from a defining generation of rock music.
Read MoreA Q&A with student director Carrie Finklea.
Read MoreThe sudden, tragic passing of rock vocalist Chris Cornell at an MGM Grand Casino in Detroit is a reminder of the passing of an era- the post-glam grunge hurricane of the 1990s- and a reminder of what is lacking in modern rock n’ roll, if not modern popular music in general.
Read MoreWhen the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was released in 2014, Marvel gambled on producing a lesser known comic.
Read MoreWe knew her as the princess of Genovia, as Meryl Streep’s lackey, and as a starved and sickened prostitute singing of broken dreams. In Colossal, an experimental mash up of a sci-fi and rom-com flick, Anne Hathaway is back again.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, April 26, HSS 165 fills with students attending a screening of Love Thy Nature, a documentary directed by Sylvie Rokab. The screening was organized in part by Santa Monica College’s Center for Environmental and Urban Studies as a part of Earth Week 2017. The film is introduced by Sheila Laffey, an associate producer, and a film professor at SMC.
Read MoreMary J. Blige’s 14th studio album, “Strength of a Woman,” was released on Friday, April 28.
Read MoreThe Promise deserves a place in film history despite it’s negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and by opposition from the Turkish and Azerbaijani governments that still deny that The Armenian genocide ever happened. The film intends to shine a light on the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians during the fall of the Ottoman Empire as World War I unfolded.
Read MoreIn 2012, Sara Taksler, one of the senior producers for The Daily Show met an interesting guest on Jon Stewart’s show. He was Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian cardiac surgeon who had decided to quit his job at the hospital and become a political satirist on TV.
Read MoreAmong all the art shows scattered all over Los Angeles, none give you a sense of vast of openness and wonder like The 14th Factory. Its artists have come all the way from Hong Kong, China to bring 14 large-scale and interactive installations. The gallery was conceived by Hong Kong-based British artist Simon Birch and built in a three-acre warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles.
Read More“We start off every week by asking: ‘Brutha Gimel, what did you do this weekend?’” It’s a loaded question that Shihan Van Clief, the host and co- founder of Da Poetry Lounge, asks in front of an audience of more than 250 people. Some are like family, loyal artists and listeners who have been attending for more than a decade. Others are essentially strangers, first-timers -- like voyagers in a foreign land.
Read MoreAs if 90s nostalgia wasn’t already going strong these days, it's been further kicked into overdrive with the release of the live-action adaptation of Disney's 1991 classic animated film "Beauty and the Beast."
Read MoreAlmost 90-years ago, "Frankenstein" scared the heck out of movie audiences and helped make Universal Pictures Horror a brand name. Now, Universal's reputation for freaking people out has been further enhanced with “Get Out,” a terrifying, fascinating and hilarious film that's the latest in a long line of horror genre box-office winners from the studio.
Read MoreRevolver Gallery in Santa Monica wants you for Andy Warhol Revisited, a touring exhibition celebrating the iconic artists work and life in, this, the 30th anniversary of his untimely death in 1987. With over 200 artworks, this interactive retrospective is a once in a lifetime exhibit featuring Andy’s pop era works of the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s; the soup cans, Maos and Marilyns… it’s all there.
Read MoreAmazon Studios new series Z: The Beginning of Everything is the show you never knew you needed.
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