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  • MOVIE REVIEW: MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN

    debbie lynn elias|Apr 10, 2014

    For those of you who are fans of or remember Jay Ward's legendary "The Bullwinkle Show"/"The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show" and particularly the "Peabody's Improbable History" segments created by Ted Key, you're in for a howling good time as everybody's favorite talking canine Mr. Peabody, his adopted son Sherman and the infamous WABAC machine are resurrected, reimagined and brought to the big screen in DreamWorks Animation MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN. And for those of you experiencing Mr. Peabody and...

  • Movie Review: Sabotage

    debbie lynn elias|Mar 27, 2014

    Scorching the senses with exhilarating action, edge of your seat intrigue and some incredibly riveting plot twists and turns, SABOTAGE is an action powerhouse that thrills not only with explosions, drug lords and covert operations, but immerses the audience in the lives of a dynamic ensemble of personalities and the psychological drama of the players. Who can you trust? Who do you trust? Treachery, blood shed and blood lust run amok! What really stands out and sets SABOTAGE apart from being...

  • MOVIE REVIEW: Need For Speed

    debbie lynn elias|Mar 27, 2014

    Since 1994, the "Need for Speed" video game has had 20 different incarnations and racing adventures and is a multi-generational at-home thrill ride worldwide. Given its popularity and commercial success, it was only a matter of time before "Need for Speed" the game would become NEED FOR SPEED the movie. And for this big screen adaptation, the perfect triumvirate of filmmakers come together - director Scott Waugh, stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert and cinematographer Shane Hurlbut - to deliver a...

  • Movie Review: 3 Days to Kill

    debbie lynn elias|Mar 27, 2014

    Nothing warms my heart more than a father-daughter film - unless it's a father-daughter film with kick-ass action; which means, 3 DAYS TO KILL is killer! Exhilarating! High energy! High Heart! High Humor! As the second of five films starring Costner to hit theatres this year, 3 DAYS TO KILL finds the perfect blend of Costner's "everyman" sensibility, old school practicality and matter-of-fact humor with the high octane storytelling of director McG based on a script by Luc Besson and Hasak. Not...

  • "Birder": A Special DouglasPlus Event

    Mar 13, 2014

    A special event that includes a reading of the new comedy "Birder" by Julie Marie Myatt and a guided bird walk in the gardens of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) will be presented by Center Theatre Group under its DouglasPlus programming and NHM on April 6 at 7 p.m. "Birder," which is directed by Dan Bonnell, follows an accountant who, upon the discovery of a house finch nesting outside his home in Los Feliz, finds himself forced to question his most basic assumptions...

  • Movie Review - Frozen

    debbie lynn elias|Mar 13, 2014

    It's been a long time coming, but Disney magic is back! The glorious fantasy of storytelling, the beauty of fairy tales filled with princes and princesses, magic, wonder, beauty and eye-popping ultra widescreen Technicolor, this is just what we have from Walt Disney Animation Studios with FROZEN; ethereal, beautiful, perfect use of 3D and all to glorious magical effect creating a winter wonderland that sparkles as far as the eye and heart can see. The epitome of wide-eyed wonder and amazement as...

  • Movie Trailer - Pompeii

    Mar 13, 2014

    Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him. Directed By: Paul W.S. Anderson Written By: Janet...

  • Movie Trailer: The Lego Movie

    Mar 13, 2014

  • ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!!!!!

    debbie lynn elias|Mar 6, 2014

    Under threat of rain and cover of tents, emotions and energy were as high and as raging with fun and comaraderie as the wild surf on the beach at Santa Monica. While dodging raindrops and even seeing a peak of the sun throughout the afternoon, by the time big name winners Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey and 12 Years a Slave, took to the stage, the skies opened and thundered roared as if the gods themselves were applauding and crying tears of joy for the celebration of indie spirit and...

  • MOVIE REVIEW: A Double Feature of Murder, Madness, Mystery and Noir

    debbie lynn elias|Mar 6, 2014

    This week brings us two delectable works that embrace and celebrate film noir and all the deliciousness of the genre. One, THE BAG MAN, inspired by "The Cat", a work by Jungian scholar Marie-Louse von Franz, is set in present day and filled with slick saturated hyper-realistic color and frenetic yet controlled emotion. The other, IN SECRET, set in 1897 Paris, is based on Emile Zola's scandalously lust-filled novel "Therese Raquin". Both films are filled with murder, guilt, lust and madness, not...

  • "Broadway Bound" Concert Coming To Culver-Palms

    Feb 27, 2014

    Culver-Palms United Methodist Church will be presenting its second "Broadway Bound" concert on Sunday, March 2, at 2 pm. The show will feature members of the church's music department performing songs from popular Broadway shows of the past and present. Free admission; donations accepted. A reception in the Fellowship Hall will follow the performance. Culver-Palms United Methodist Church is located at 4464 Sepulveda Blvd. (three blocks south of Culver Blvd.). Phone: (310) 390-7717....

  • 'Fiddler On The Roof' Coming To Kentwood

    Feb 27, 2014

    Kentwood Players will present the Tony Award winning musical "Fiddler on the Roof" with book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Jerry Bock, and music by Sheldon Harnick from March 14 to April 19. There will be 20 performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm,and Thursdays on April 3, 10, and 17 at 8 pm at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue, Westchester. The production is produced by Rocky and Victoria Miller, directed by Harold Dershimer, with musical direction by Catherine...

  • The Hilarious Parody of The Fifty Shades Of Grey Trilogy

    Feb 27, 2014

    With sold out audiences in Chicago and New York screaming for more, and a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a 4-star review, 50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL – THE ORIGINAL PARODY is premiering in Culver City at the Kirk Douglas Theatre February 25 to March 16. The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has shattered sales records around the globe with more than 32 million copies sold in the United States alone and a 2015 Universal Pictures feature film release is sure to be a cinematic blockbuster. A...

  • Special Reading Coming to Douglas Theatre

    Feb 20, 2014

    Center Theatre Group welcomes the Latino Theater Company to the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a special reading of "Hope: Part II of A Mexican Trilogy" by Evelina Fernández on Saturday, March 1 at 1 pm.. Developed with the Latino Theater Company and directed by José Luis Valenzuela, "Hope" will be performed as a part of DouglasPlus in the Douglas' rehearsal space, Upstairs@KDT. "Hope: Part II of A Mexican Trilogy" is the second of three related plays produced by Latino Theater Company – "Faith: Par...

  • Movie Review: About Last Night

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 20, 2014

    With love and lust filling the air this Valentine's weekend, what better way to celebrate than with a fresh and funny romantic comedy that I like to describe as "raunchy likeable vulgarity." Without a doubt the funniest film of the year, Kevin Hart and Regina Hall make you laugh till you cry, or pee your pants, while Michael Ealy just steals your heart. ABOUT LAST NIGHT melds the hysterical outrageous comedy stylings of Hart and Hall with the warmth and tenderness of Ealy and Joy Bryant, all...

  • Culver Chamber Orchestra to Feature Young Talent

    Feb 13, 2014

    The Culver City Chamber Orchestra announces its next concert on Sunday, March 16 at 4 p.m. at Culver Palms Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Blvd. At 3 p.m. there will be a kid friendly, hands-on demonstration of the string instrument family featuring soloists. Tickets are now available through the web page ccchamberorchestra.com or by calling (310) 397-2490. MasterCard and Visa are accepted. With conductors Andres Cárdenes and Arlette Cárdenes, featured soloists Marco Valentin Cárdenes, Pi...

  • Culver Symphony to Present Winter Concert

    Feb 13, 2014

    The Culver City Symphony Orchestra continues its 2013-14 Season with, A Winter's Concert on Saturday, February 22 at 8 pm at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Avenue. Frank Fetta is the Conductor/Music Director. CCSO historically programmed unusual, out-of-the-way works, and remains true-to-form. It is not often one hears in one concert separate concertos for viola and bass, performed by two young soloists from our Parness Concerto Competition: Benjamin Chilton, Viola, is the First...

  • Movie Review - Saving Mr. Banks

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 13, 2014
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    Making this the jolliest holiday of the year, SAVING MR. BANKS is, quite frankly, practically perfect in every way. Based on the true account of the making of "Mary Poppins", SAVING MR. BANKS is the story behind the story; the battle of wills between studio titan Walt Disney and literary titan P.L. Travers as the man behind the mouse fought to fulfill a promise to his daughters, a promise to bring to life on the big screen the beloved story of the nanny with the bottomless carpetbag and talking...

  • MOVIE REVIEW: The Imitation Game

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 12, 2014

    As you are reading this very column, be it online or in print, one of the people responsible for this luxury is the very man celebrated in THE IMITATION GAME - Alan Turing. Although director Morten Tyldum focuses on Turing's life in the context of WWII and the genius of his mathematical and codebreaking skills, it is thanks to Turing's work for the Allies during this time at Bletchley Park, the Government Code and Cypher School, that an early version of the device we now know as "the computer"...

  • Kentwood Auditions Set For 'The Hollow'

    Feb 6, 2014

    Kentwood Players will hold auditions for Agatha Christie's THE HOLLOW on Saturday, March 22 from noon tom5 pm and Sunday, March 23 from 6 pm to 9:30 with callbacks on Monday, March 24 from 7 pm to 10 at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue, Westchester. Production dates are May 16 to June 21 for a six-week run on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm with Sunday matinees at 2. The production is directed by George Kondreck and produced by Arlene Cohen and Sheldon Cohen by special arrangement wit...

  • Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 6, 2014

    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...

  • Movie Review: Best Night Ever

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 6, 2014

    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,...

  • Movie Review: That Awkward Moment

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 6, 2014

    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...

  • Movie Review: Cavemen

    debbie lynn elias|Feb 6, 2014

    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...

  • Master Chorale Celebrates 50th Anniversary

    Steven Lieberman|Jan 30, 2014

    By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter The Los Angeles Master Chorale, a cultural icon heralded around the globe for its exceptional artistry, pulled out the stops for their 50th anniversary weekend celebration. The program featured two performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass - the choral masterpiece that founding music director Roger Wagner inaugurated in 1965 at the just-opened Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Chorale’s home for 37 years. This time, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the residence of the Mas...

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