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Check out the teaser poster for Rob Zombie’s 31 !

    From the visionary mind of Rob Zombie comes the horrific story of five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween and held hostage in a large compound.  At the mercy of their captors, they are forced to play a twisted game or life or death called

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Festivals

THEY CALL US MONSTERS

THEY CALL US MONSTERS is a powerful documentary that comes to us from director Benjamin Lear as he takes us behind the walls of the Sylmar Juvenile Correctional Facility and the California judicial system to look at a growing epidemic in California prisons with minors convicted of violent crimes being

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Festivals

SENSITIVITY TRAINING

Written and directed by Melissa Finell, SENSITIVITY TRAINING is one of the few films I’ve seen over the years at Los Angeles Film Festival which had me laughing so hard at the hard-ass, crude, rude, calls-it-like-she-sees-it protagonist, that I was rolling with side splitting laughter.  (And yes, I admittedly felt

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Festivals

DESTINED

Making its World Premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival is Qasim Basir’s DESTINED. Examining the cause and effect of a “moment in time”, the path not taken or road less traveled, and/or even the idea of a parallel universe, and above all free will and choice, Qasim Basir

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Festivals

SO B. IT

Stealing my heart and guaranteed to steal yours is SO B. IT. Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and written by Garry Williams based Sarah Weeks’ 2004 New York Times best selling children’s novel,  SO B. IT mandates three boxes of tissues. As if the mere fact that Patrick Murguia is the

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Movies

THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE

Yo-Yo Ma. World renowned cellist. Child prodigy. Many American audiences got their first glimpse of Yo-Yo Ma when at age 7 he was introduced on television by Leonard Bernstein. Over the decades, Yo-Yo Ma has opened the senses of the masses to the beauty of classical music. Passionate about bringing

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