As an L.A. transplant who grew up in a part of Florida where the most famous person you can hope to run into is Vanilla Ice (Daytona Beach, hotel elevator, 1999-ish
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The seventh episode of Transparent's second season, now available on Amazon, takes place on Yom Kippur. The holiest day of the year in the Hebrew calendar, it's a ho
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It's hard to imagine a more unsettling setting for a horror movie than Aokigahara, the famed suicide forest? of Japan to which scores of pilgrims travel every year t
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Don't let that title throw you. Joe Frank and Zachary Reed's rambling neighborhood comedy Sweaty Betty isn't dopey or sweaty, and I don't recall meet
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A dry-rubbed lark from the often harrowing ultra-realist territories of the Romanian New Wave, The Treasure is about almost nothing ? a shaggy-dog daydream as flyawa
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If you don't already have enough reasons to be happy that 2015 has come to an end, remind yourself of the terrible movies that it produced ? and hope that the fi
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Since leaving office in 2013, former L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been mostly out of the spotlight. He has made some appearances in the Central Valley, part o
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On Dec. 28, authorities in Cleveland held a press conference to announce that the police officers responsible for the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice wouldn
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From bikers swarming a Montclair drive-in to Hollywood's penchant for exiling women, here's a look back at L.A. Weekly readers' favorite film-related
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One of our most enduring cinematic genres, horror is also among the most difficult to do right. This may sound obvious ? countless attempts are made to scare moviego
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At the corner of Manchester Avenue and St. Andrews Place in South Los Angeles, against a backdrop of box-shaped stores and gray concrete, Pasacio the King DaVinci p
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Charlie Kaufman is a cartographer of the soul. You can picture him hunched over parchment accurately inking each dark river and, off to the side, cautioning that the
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