I have to buy some brick-colored lattice fencing at a nearby Home Depot and then get dressed and drive up to Santa Barbara around 2 or 2:30 pm for a Robert De Niro black-tie tribute event at Goleta’s Bacara Resort. De Niro is receiving the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s seventh annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film. The event is a fundraiser for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which runs from 1.24 through 2.3.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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