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After seeing the difficulties his countrymen had with their own English language debuts – Kim Jee-woon’s reviled Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last...

As the sun went down and the stage lights of the Levitt Pavilion turned bright, the eclectic sounds of DJ Carlos Niño brightened the airwaves. By Juan Salinas...

Walking through the aisles of an electronics store, I come to the conclusion that streaming is here to stay. By Robert Gauna – Technology* New Blu-ray...

I’m late to the table – culinary joke! – to this sleeper hit, but after Chef received enough recommendations from trustworthy friends, I caved...

I hate to sound reactionary, but I am so happy to see Swedish director Lukas Moodysson return to his upbeat beginnings, after several years making...

It sounded so promising: a reverent remake of Godzilla with top-notch actors, an indie director with rich potential, and a serious take on the story. Why, then,...

The latest installment in the X-Men movie franchise is loosely based on the January 1981 X-Men comic book of the same title, which takes place in a dystopian...

An interpretation of the Jazz standard “Take Five” played with traditional Pakistani instruments plus strings. At a virtuoso level! The challenge of...

Because Captain America: The First Avenger took place mostly in World War II, when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) turned from wimp to hero as he fought off the Red...

Cult indie director Jim Jarmusch takes on the vampire genre. On the surface, this seems like a no-brainer: the spooky Jarmusch could almost pass for a vampire...

Go ahead, play with your food, Niki Jabbour seems to be saying in her new book, “Groundbreaking Food Gardens” (Storey Publishing, $19.95, paper)....

This is a defiantly odd and confidently creepy little film, and as such there’s a part of me that wishes you could just see this without knowing anything...

See how your favorite organic milk fared in the The Cornucopia Institute* Organic Dairy Report/Ratings (arranged by Cow Star Ratings). View the local report...

The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 | Wes Anderson By Mark Tapio Kines After regaining art house box office relevance with his charming if twee Moonrise Kingdom, Wes...

Gravity 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón By Mark Tapio Kines During the “golden age” of 3D in the 1950s, the majority of films that employed this gimmick were...

The Wind Rises 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki By Mark Tapio Kines First, a confession: I have never been a fan of Japanese animation. It’s a stylistic thing. I...