Garrett Rowlan

Pastoral and post-apocalyptic, the new film from Ridley Scott, "The Dog Stars," bears a distinct resemblance to "The Odyssey," but to me was a much easier film...

Halfway through "Franz," the new biopic by Agnieszka Holland about Franz Kafka, the writer is reading from the manuscript of "The Trial" while his cigar-smoking...

Nominated for a number of awards, the “team” from Colorado Boulevard newspaper went down to the Biltmore in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 28, for the LA Press...

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About two-thirds of the way through Disclosure Day, the new film by Steven Spielberg, one character turns to another and says, “What the hell is going on?”

Think of "Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy" as a sort of octopus with its tentacles in the past, pulling together nearly 60 artists from 70 works in an exhibition...

It’s not too early to begin compiling a list of the best films of...

Remarkably Bright...

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown,” Shakespeare wrote, but in Eugène Ionesco’s play "Exit the King," now at A Noise Within through May 31,...

“Fairy Tales” are the first words spoken by the adult version of Michael Jackson in Michael, and before I left the theater after the long credit roll, I...

Movies like this may be a hard sell in our current escapist environment, but Robert Pattinson (unshaven, confused, and a little seedy) and Zendaya (not the...

Any 'Hamlet' that begins with the dead king’s body being ceremoniously washed, followed by the ghost speaking to Hamlet in subtitled Hindi, is bound to be...

The movie consists of archival footage, news clips, and talking heads interviewed by Roher. His interest is more than just journalistic. He has, as it were,...

“In space, no one can hear you scream.

I sometimes wonder if there’s an alternate universe, and after seeing "The Bride," I’m sure it’s possible.

"Crime 101" does what it sets out to do; that is, it delivers the thrills and chills appropriate to the genre.