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Katniss Everdeen and company are back with THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE. With this second installment in the YA franchise, now helmed by Frances Lawrence and written by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn, we catch up with the 74th Hunger Games victors, Katniss and Peeta on their return home to District 12. Panem is an even darker and more oppressive country than before the Games. The ever malevolent President Snow is less than pleased with the victorious tie between Katniss and Peeta thanks...
Monday night, for the second time, scores of residents and skating enthusiasts came before the Culver City Council to plea for the city to do something to save one of the greatest entertainment venues for young people on the Westside, The Culver Ice Arena. The response of council members, while wringing their hands and lamenting the loss, was largely that of the monkeys on the wall with their hands over either their ears, eyes and mouth….Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing. Months were moving but nothing of substance was being emitted. It i...
Access 11 will partner with Ballona Creek Renaissance on the next Ballona Creek Cleanup on Saturday, February 8 from 9 am to noon at Centinela Ave. at Milton St. between Culver Blvd. and the I-90/Marina Freeway BCR welcomes the partnership and hands-on participation of LA Councilman Mike Bonin, staff, and volunteers as part of his Access 11 community outreach program. Volunteers of all ages are welcome in this activity where the inland water and incoming tide meet, a special place of fish, birds, plants---yet there is still too much trash and...
On Monday, Eatalian Cafe opened two new locations in Downtown Culver City: EnjoEat Espresso, and EnjoEat Classico (3912- 3918 Van Buren Pl. EnjoEat Espresso is a bakery, café, and gelato shop. It is like the small café you find everywhere in Italy, where you can get your coffee, cappuccino, fresh pastries, panini, tramezzini, gelato, salads, and healthy and tasty snacks for a quick lunch or break. The menu is rich of surprises like gnocco farcito, tramezzini, piadina romagnola ... and don't f...
With BEST NIGHT EVER, co-writers/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, take us on a bachelorette party road trip to Las Vegas under the guise that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. Or does it? Vacillating between laugh-out-loud funny and “WTF?”, BEST NIGHT EVER feels original and fresh in certain instances, but then repeatedly falls into hackneyed, poorly mimicked skits from other ventures. Bride-to-be Claire is being feted to a Las Vegas bachelorette party by her sister, Leslie,...
Relationships are never easy and neither are movies about relationships. In THAT AWKWARD MOMENT, writer/director Tom Gormican focuses on three male 20-something best friends navigating the course of sex, love and relationships in 2014. Although falling into some genre tropes and cliche, Gormican keeps the ship of love steady as it treads through some rocky waters predicated on the relationship “So???” question (So, are we a couple? So, are we planning a future? So....). A constant buoy is the...
Written and directed by first-time director Herschel Faber, CAVEMEN boasts some entertaining and emotionally arced performances by Skylar Astin, Chad Michael Murray, Kenny Wormald and the lone gal in the group, Camilla Belle (look, she faced off with baby Velociraptors in "The Lost World", I think she can hold her own with the guys), but its strongest suit is its cinematography and technical excellence. Dean is a struggling screenwriter. Jay is a wannabe actor and prides himself on screwing a...
