Orange County Register: Movies
- Box office: 'Captain America: Civil War' nabs fifth-best opening ever
Sunday - 05/08/2016 - 10:19 PMWhat superhero fatigue? Disney and Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has strong-armed its way to becoming the fifth-highest domestic opening ever according to comScore estimates Sunday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Star Wars Day: All the 'May The Fourth Be With You' stories from around the web
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 03:15 PMTo most people, May 4 is just a regular Wednesday. But to "Star Wars" fans, it's a day to proclaim your love for the franchise and unite with other fans from across the globe by saying, "May the fourth be with you!"
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Here are some of the most popular... - Newport film fest reports attendance drop
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 10:08 PMThe Newport Beach Film Festival wrapped up a 17th year last Thursday, with attendance of 50,000, a bit of a dip from 2015. Despite a decrease in attendance from last year’s 55,000, this year saw a record number of sold-out shows.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Key and Peele's 'Keanu' delivers the laughs
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AMIf you dropped a cute kitten into Michael Mann’s “Heat,” would Robert De Niro have gone all soft and goo-goo eyed? Might Wesley Snipes’ drug empire in “New Jack City” been brought to its knees by a cuddly face with whiskers?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'The Meddler' a wonderful look at mother-daughter relationship
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AMThe perfect Mother’s Day movie arrives this weekend, and no, it’s not necessarily the film with the same name as the holiday. Lorene Scafaria’s “The Meddler,” starring Susan Sarandon as the meddler in question, is the kind of deeply felt...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Dough' a half-baked comedy about Jewish-Muslim friendship
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AM“Dough,” about an old-fashioned Jewish baker who befriends a troubled Muslim teenager, is an eager-to-please film that wants to be both heartfelt and humorous, but its half-baked script offers little in the way of emotion or laughs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Mother's Day' aims to ruin another holiday
Thursday - 04/28/2016 - 03:00 AMIt seems there’s no stopping Garry Marshall’s terrifying cinematic rampage on our nation’s treasured holidays. Having ruined both “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve” with his star-packed omnibus projects, the director has burned...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 10 to see at the Newport Beach Film Fest
Monday - 04/25/2016 - 06:30 PMFifty countries are represented in movies at this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival, which makes it a way to see new places without leaving Orange County. The festival wraps up on Thursday, but there are still tickets available for documentaries,...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - TCM Classic Film Festival: Rediscovering a lost classic and other gems
Friday - 04/22/2016 - 09:02 PMWhen “The Passion of Joan of Arc” screens at the TCM Classic Film Festival this week, it will stand out for one special aspect of what this four-day event has come to represent in its seven years in Hollywood.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Photos: Flashing back to the days when Laguna Beach was an LSD mecca
Friday - 04/22/2016 - 12:50 AMBefore Laguna Beach became known for multimillion-dollar houses and high-end art galleries, the city was home to a group of hippies who called themselves the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. They used LSD as a path to enlightenment and claimed to be the...
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- Math-nerd valentine 'Man Who Knew Infinity' doesn't add up to much
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 06:51 PM“Intuition can only carry you so far.” With the patented over/underplaying only a wily veteran British actor can provide, so says Trinity College mathematician G.H. Hardy, as played by Jeremy Irons, to his East Indian protege Srinivasa Ramanujan,...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Newport film festival reports attendance drop
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 04:32 PMThe Newport Beach Film Festival wrapped up a 17th year Thursday, with attendance of 50,000, a bit of a dip from 2015.
Despite a decrease in attendance from last year’s 55,000, this year saw a record number of sold-out shows.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Will Ferrell backs out of Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's comedy after family outcry
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 05:41 PMJust days after it was announced that Will Ferrell would produce and star in a comedy about former President Ronald Reagan’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, the actor has now bailed on the project.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Clothes make the museum in 'First Monday in May'
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AM“People underestimate the power of clothes to tell stories,” says Andrew Bolton, the slender, skinny-suited curator of “China: Through the Looking Glass.” The exhibit, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last spring, examined how...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Family Fang' draws a sharp portrait of dysfunction
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AMFamily dysfunction takes on new meaning in “The Family Fang,” a film about a pair of performance artists for whom everything in life is part of the act, and the effects this existence has on their two children.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- See all the 2016 summer movies
Thursday - 04/28/2016 - 10:32 PMHere are the planned May 4 “A Bigger Splash” – Tilda Swinton is a rock legend holed up on an island with her partner (Matthias Schoenaerts) when an old flame (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his sexy daughter (Dakota Johnson).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Photos: Street style from the Newport Beach Film Festival
Tuesday - 04/26/2016 - 03:51 PMWelcome to Street Style, where we chronicle fashionable figures and chic characters in Orange County.
This week, we attend the Newport Beach Film Festival opening night gala at Fashion Island to track down some stylish outfits.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A new eye on Lockerbie
Monday - 04/25/2016 - 01:50 PMOn Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London, headed for New York. Aboard were Syracuse University students returning home for Christmas after a semester in London, business executives, musicians, teenagers, families and many others.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A pop song in movie form, 'Sing Street' smart and catchy
Friday - 04/22/2016 - 03:00 AMSet in 1985 Dublin, “Sing Street” is a seriously endearing picture from John Carney, the writer-director of “Once,” about which I am crazy. For his latest, I’m two-thirds crazy. That’s percentage enough.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Tom Hanks not enough to solidify 'Hologram'
Thursday - 04/21/2016 - 03:00 AMYou can tell a lot about a movie’s quality, and a director’s instincts, by the way a protagonist falls off a chair. In the wobbly film version of the Dave Eggers novel “A Hologram for the King,” Tom Hanks plays an American businessman at odds...
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- Seal Beach's Bay Theatre has a buyer with a vision
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 09:29 PMSEAL BEACH As a younger man, Paul Dunlap dreamed of being another Bill Graham, the late rock promoter of such groups as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
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On a weekday morning standing in front of the long-closed Bay Theatre in Seal Beach,... - The Avengers divide in a revitalizing 'Captain America: Civil War'
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 05:02 PMConventional movie wisdom would suggest that there can only be diminishing returns with long-running franchises. There must be a breaking point, right? Especially at movie four, five, six and beyond.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Jungle Book' rules again with $42.4 million
Sunday - 05/01/2016 - 02:55 PMDisney’s “Jungle Book” trounced a handful of underperforming new releases to rule the box office for a third consecutive week, while next week’s certain champ, “Captain America: Civil War,” began setting records overseas.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Basking in an artist's sun in 'Hockney' documentary
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AMSunlight on rippling water, tanned bodies lounging by a swimming pool, brilliant sunshine in a deep-blue sky, endless summer. The canvases of the British painter, stage designer and photographer David Hockney, who settled in Los Angeles in the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Papa: Hemingway in Cuba' a missed opportunity
Friday - 04/29/2016 - 03:00 AM“Papa: Hemingway in Cuba” is the first American feature shot entirely on location in Havana since 1959. The movie makes a good argument for reinstating the American travel ban to the island, at least for Hollywood productions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Ratchet & Clank' makes uninspired jump from video games to big screen
Thursday - 04/28/2016 - 03:00 AMBased on a popular Playstation game, the sci-fi animated feature “Ratchet & Clank” seeks to capture the kid-friendly audience this weekend, as well as the gamer crowd who have a familiarity with the space-based game characters.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Mother's Day' star Kate Hudson talks family
Wednesday - 04/27/2016 - 02:12 PMAnother holiday is coming up, so naturally there’s another Garry Marshall movie about it. “Mother’s Day” follows the ensemble formula of the director’s 2010 “Valentine’s Day” and 2011 “New Year’s Eve.” Jennifer Aniston, Kate...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Box office: 'Huntsman' sequel misfires; 'Jungle Book' reigns
Sunday - 04/24/2016 - 01:54 PM“The Jungle Book” remained king of the box office in its second weekend in theaters, beating new opener “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” by around $40 million, according to comScore estimates Sunday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Photos: Newport Beach Film Festival rolls out the red carpet
Friday - 04/22/2016 - 01:49 PMCelebrities, actors, filmmakers and local government officials gathered outside Edwards Big Newport theaters Thursday night to walk the red carpet, marking the official opening of the 17th Newport Beach Film Festival.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'The Huntsman: Winter's War' misses its target
Thursday - 04/21/2016 - 03:00 AMHow do you solve a problem like Kristen (Stewart)? If you’re the filmmakers of “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” you write Snow White entirely out of the sequel to “Snow White and the Huntsman.” The film’s clearly a valuable property, so...
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