"Chinglish" Los Angeles theater review
CHINGLISH Henry David Hwang Takes us on an Adventure in Modern China Review by Deborah Klugman When playwright Henry David Hwang traveled to China in 2005, he visited a brand new cultural ar…
CHINGLISH Henry David Hwang Takes us on an Adventure in Modern China Review by Deborah Klugman When playwright Henry David Hwang traveled to China in 2005, he visited a brand new cultural ar…
Timely Film Keeps Some but not All of its Promise Promised Land isn't a great film but it is a good one, with a timely narrative that deals in the immediate sense with the pros and cons of f…
If you go see Hyde Park on Hudson anticipating historical perspective or an in-depth portrait of one our country's greatest presidents, you'll be disappointed. On the other hand, if you like…
In this in-depth interview with filmmaker Drago Sumonja, the first time filmmaker explains how his ‘talking heads’ documentary zones in on the craft of acting. Interview by Debor…
Not every sociopath is an axe murderer or a conman. In The Comedy, director Rick Alverson's painfully unfunny and self-indulgent film, the main character never carries out a violent act,…
Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers yet another consummate performance in A Late Quartet, a flawed film by first time feature director, Yaron Zilberman. Hoffman and Imogen Poots, riveting at tim…
Five aging friends decide to move in together in Stéphane Robelin's crowd-pleasing comedy All Together, starring Jane Fonda (in her first French-language film since Jean Luc Godard's 197…
The opening of Sundance Sunset West Hollywood ups the trend toward movie going as an "elite" experience. It also ups the price. Former home to the Laemmle Sunset 5, and situated at the S…
Review by Deborah Klugman. When I first heard about Paul Thomas Anderson's new film " word was that it was about a Scientology-type leader and a drifter who becomes attached to him – I…