Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Wade Major and Andy Klein review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms:
“Wonka” Wide Release
“Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire” In Select Theaters
“The Zone of Interest” AMC Century City [Century City] + Vista Theatre [Los Feliz]
“The Taste of Things” Laemmle Royal [West LA] | Opens wider February 9th, 2024
“American Fiction” In Select AMC Theaters
“Freud’s Last Session” Laemmle Royal [West LA] Dec. 21st | Wider Release January 2024
“Godzilla Minus One” Wide Release
“Anselm” Laemmle Glendale [Glendale] + AMC Santa Monica 7
“Godard Cinema” Laemmle Royal [West LA] | Opens wider at Select Theaters December 18th
“The Family Plan” Streaming on AppleTV+

FilmWeek: ‘Wonka,’ ‘Godzilla Minus One,’ ‘Godard Cinema’ And More

FilmWeek on AirTalk, hosted by Larry Mantle, is a one-hour weekly segment devoted to films. It offers reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussions on various aspects of the industry.

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Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, according to a statement released Saturday by his wife and daughters. This follows a life that started with many B-horror movies, such as the 1960 film “Little Shop of Horrors,” and helping kickstart the careers of Martin Scorsese and Jack Nicholson. Some of Corman’s work, including interviews with these film legends associated with Corman, was displayed in the 2011 documentary “Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel.”
 
For this week’s FilmWeek feature, we talk to filmmaker Alex Stapleton, director of “Corman’s World” and LAist film critic Wade Major, about Corman’s legacy and why his loss meant so much to the film community.
 

Feature: Remembering Roger Corman, Storied Filmmaker, Who Passed Away At 98

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Manuel Betancourt and Christy Lemire review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.


“If” Wide Release
“Babes” Wide Release
“Back To Black” Wide Release
“Gasoline Rainbow” Laemmle Glendale [Glendale] | Streaming on MUBI May 31
“Thelma the Unicorn” Streaming on Netflix 
“The Tuba Thieves” Premieres on PBS May 20th
“The Blue Angels” In IMAX | Streaming on Amazon Prime May 23

FilmWeek: ‘Back To Black ’ ‘Gasoline Rainbow,’ ‘Thelma The Unicorn,’ And More

Go back to the movies with us!
It's heating up in the city, so Revival House continues with a classic of spring and summertime in L.A. — a film at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Run by Cinespia, you can picnic and catch a revival film on the iconic grassy knoll. What keeps people coming back year after year? What's the history of it all? Listen along to find out.
Learn more about the cemetery tour here: https://www.cemeterytour.com/
Find more about Cinespia here: https://cinespia.org/
Guests: Cemetery tour guide Karie Bible, Cinespia founder John Wyatt.

HTLA Presents: Revival House: Part 8 - Movies Under — And Among —  The Stars At Hollywood Forever

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Andy Klein review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.


“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Wide Release
“Poolman” In Select Theaters
“Summer Qamp” Laemmle Glendale [Glendale]
“Power”  Laemmle Monica Film Center [Santa Monica]| Streaming On Netflix May 17 
“The Last Stop in Yuma County” In Select Theaters
“Living With Leopards” Streaming On Netflix
“The Roundup Punishment” Wide Release
“Force Of Nature: The Dry 2” In Select Theaters
“The Image of You” VOD
“Lazareth” VOD
“Mother of the Bride” Streaming on Netflix
 

FilmWeek: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ ‘The Last Stop in Yuma Country,’ ‘The Roundup: Punishment,’ And More

Saturday Night Live over the decades has served as a building block for comedians, using that platform as a way to get your name out there and eventually spin their popularity into other ventures. One of the earliest, and most iconic cases, being the American Classic that SNL alums Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi created with “The Blues Brothers.” A new book, by writer and journalist Daniel de Visé, gets into how Aykroyd and Belushi’s kinetic, comedic energy was spun into a just as entertaining production process. Along with the film’s influence on pop culture humor, it also shares how the film’s appreciate of blues music is best encapsulated by its soundtrack and appearances by Aretha Franklin and James Brown.
For this week’s FilmWeek feature, we talk to Daniel de Visé, author of “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the making of an American Film Classic” about what he was able to uncover from revisiting this film the captured a special moment in American film and comedy. 

FilmWeek: ‘Wonka,’ ‘Godzilla Minus One,’ ‘Godard Cinema’ And More

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