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Another entertaining and thought-provoking offering from The Echo Theater Company, performing at Atwater Village Theatre. By Carol Edger Germain If you are not...

Written by Rosie Narasaki, directed by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck, and featuring an all-Asian American and Pacific Islanders cast, AAPI playwright, and a...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru – translated as “to live” in English – is such a bona fide classic that it begs the question, “Why...

I knew almost nothing about Aftersun going in, except that its story involves a father and daughter going on vacation and that its star Paul Mescal received a...

“FIBERS”—an exhibit featuring textile artwork, opened on February 22nd at the Alexander Hughes Community Center of Claremont, and will be on view until...

It was just a couple of years ago when I finally caught the 1930 screen adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark...

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is epic yet kooky, family-centric yet overstuffed, as if Robert Rodriguez had been given $200 million to make one of his Spy...

A fast-moving flow of vignettes! By Carol Edger Germain Written by Caryl Churchill and directed by Emily Chase, “Love and Information” by Antaeus...

It was a privilege to see a very solid production of this grand musical in a comparatively intimate venue. By Carol Edger Germain Pasadena Playhouse pulled out...

Circle X Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of “Do You Feel Anger?” at Atwater Village Theatre. By Carol Edger Germain It lived up to...

I’m breaking my rules a little in that I missed The Banshees of Inisherin in theaters and caught it on streaming two months later, but I’m reviewing...

A half-century into his storied career, Steven Spielberg proves he still has the ability to surprise by offering us an intimate and cautiously revealing...

Brendan Fraser’s “comeback movie” is a finely-acted character drama given unusually restrained direction from Darren Aronofsky. The Whale...

Babylon is basically a remake of Boogie Nights, except that instead of being set in the pornographic film industry in the 1970s and 1980s, it’s set in the...

Written by Melissa Jane Osborne and directed by Michelle Bossy, “Smile” is set in 1992, the “Year of the Woman,” a detail that sets the...

A Noise Within presents “Radio Golf,” the final play in August Wilson’s 10-play “American Century Cycle,” a decade-by-decade exploration of...