We here at CV Weekly are proud to have a diverse group of writers and reporters. As such, we have many different viewpoints on issues and stories. We would like to give you, the reader, a chance to view this first hand. Last week, our Leisure editor and reporter Charly Shelton reviewed “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” […]
By Susan JAMES Running through April 30, the annual exhibition of Oscar-nominated movie costumes is now on display at the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Featuring 100 costumes from 23 films, including the five Oscar nominations, the exhibit runs the gamut from romantic “Cinderella” ball gowns to high tech “Star Wars” Stormtrooper […]
By Susan JAMES When Hollywood takes on Hollywood the results can be laugh-out-loud funny or a disastrous misfire. Fortunately for audiences, the Coen Brothers’ new journey through the looking glass at the Hollywood of 1951 is the former. Clever production whisks us back to the days when TV was still a gleam in the entertainment […]
By Susan JAMES Go for the action. Skip the romance. Director Craig Gillespie has put a blow-out action film on screen that makes you hold your breath as long as the men being pounded by killer seas. But when the movie cuts to the lame love story, it drags its anchor. Adapted from the 2009 […]
By Susan JAMES Director Danny Boyle’s new film “Steve Jobs” is a surprisingly engrossing plunge into the chaotic world of a man who created the future but was unable to deal with the present. The larger-than-life career of computer visionary Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) is one of dysfunctional relationships that lasted decades, taking a terrible […]
By Susan JAMES To mark the upcoming Emmy Television Awards on Sept. 20, the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) has just premiered its annual exhibition of the best in television costume design. The exhibition will run through Saturday, Sept. 26, and is free to the public. This season the awards for […]
By Susan JAMES They’re back, they’re bad and they’re bigger than ever. ‘Jurassic World’, Universal Studio’s new excursion into the wonderful world of dinosaurs, is fast and furious, with a body count courtesy of rampaging lizards the size of skyscrapers. Director Colin Trevorrow offers a screen full of CGI thrills and spills that are exciting […]
By Susan JAMES Australian writer-director George Miller, best known over the last decade as the producer of “Happy Feet” and “Babe,” has left the feel-good animal kingdom to revisit the dystopian world of human animals he helped create nearly 40 years ago. Those years have not been good to Miller’s vision. His new take on […]
By Susan JAMES “Furious 7,” the seventh film in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, is a worthy successor to the series and a worthy tribute to the late Paul Walker aka Brian O’Conner. This tale of unmasked avengers and the women who love them opens with a bang and rarely pauses for breath during […]
By Susan JAMES Running through April 25, the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing celebrates the Oscars with its 23rd annual Oscar Costume Design Exhibition. Free to the public, the exhibition features over 100 costumes from 23 outstanding 2014 films including the five costume design Oscar nominees – “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Inherent […]