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Summer promises a sluice of action films, and Mission Impossible—The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, is the first out of the gate.

“This is the end of history,” proclaims a young woman holding a camera in Diane Severian Nguyen’s If Revolution is a Sickness, part of the Armory’s...

Musclebound and tongue-tied, the socially inept main character, Christian Wolff, as played by Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2Our Man FlintTerminator Rain...

Warfare, a film based on soldiers’ memories of the Iraq war, is full of suspense, action, but not of resolution.

Seeing Dancing in the Dark by Devin Troy Strother is like catching a dazzling fragment of the Black experience—one that both confounds and engages.

Seeing George Nama: Sixty Years of Selected Works, currently at the Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena, gave me an obscure feeling of hope—hope in the way...

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was Steven Soderbergh’s breakout film in 1989, and now, from the same director, we have The Black Bag.

“What’s it like dying?” is a question asked repeatedly to the protagonist of Mickey 17, and maybe it’s like feeling nothing, which was how I felt while...

Movie Review | The Monkey by Garrett Rowlan

Covering almost 50 years of Brazilian history, as seen through the experiences of its main character, Walter Salles’s "I’m Still Here" is a testament to...

While there is no rulebook for public etiquette in the wake of a grim event, the initial atmosphere for the 2025 Pasadena State of the City speech almost struck...

“Good Old Neon” is a story by the late David Foster Wallace, and when I first read that title, I thought it was ironic and humorous. However, after seeing...

Movie Review | The Brutalist, by Garrett Rowlan

When did our window on the world become a mirror?

“I am appetite, nothing more,” says Bill Skarsgård in Nosferatu, the latest filmic incarnation of the monster whose house hunting brings him from the...

The Hispanic Legacy collection at the Jack Rutberg Gallery, on Lake and California in Pasadena, reminds me of the line from Sunset Boulevard, “We didn’t...