Here's the latest from one of our favorites, Glen Brogan, over at Hero Complex Gallery for their latest show Based on the Comic. Check out more pieces from the link.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
May the 4th Celebration: Across the Galaxy
6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Schedule:
10:30am–Noon | 2–4pm | BB8 and R2-D2 Meet and Greet | Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby
11am-2pm | Community Mural | The Walt Disney Company Piazza
11am | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) | David Geffen Theater
Noon | 2pm | 4pm | Jump to Lightspeed – Encounters Tours | Level 3, Rolex Gallery
12:30-1:30pm | 2:30-3:30pm | 4:30-5:30pm | Dykstraflex Live Demonstration | Spielberg Family Gallery
1pm | Force Training Demonstration | Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby
12:30-4:30pm | May the 4th Art-Making Activities | Shirley Temple Education Studio
7:30pm | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) | David Geffen Theater
Weekly What To Do: Should Square Enix Make Pies?
Mark your calendars! The @SQEX_MD_NA Pop-Up Shop, in collaboration with @littleakiba_LA , will be taking place 4/26-5/5 in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo Mall! Make sure to swing by to check out everything available and receive an exclusive gift with your purchase of $150 or more. ✨ pic.twitter.com/GJ7rR3By97
— Square Enix (@SquareEnix) April 15, 2024
Forge your own scoops! We’re proud to be teaming up with @SquareEnix for a full-store takeover to celebrate the launch of SaGa Emerald Beyond! We’ll have two exclusive flavors, Mr. S’cellent Lemon Meringue Pie (lemon pie + marshmallows) and Emintrald Wave pic.twitter.com/QPWHJvunnu
— tsun scoops (@tsunscoops) April 19, 2024
Chocolate Talk & Tasting | Keeping it Grounded
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007COST: $18 for Members, $20 for Non-Members
Pizza City Fest offers a stellar lineup of Southern California’s best pizza makers in one location, giving fans the unique opportunity to taste, see live demos, and attend panel discussions with culinary experts over two days at L.A. LIVE.
shown for the first time in the US, just after their release in France!
April 27th - May 14th
Sat April 27th Live Instagram Tour @giantrobot Art On Sale Online 12Noon (Gallery Open from 1pm) Artist Reception 6-9pm
Christine Luu, DANI KAWAII, Gina Zycher, Ginger Chen, Godeleine de Rosamel, Jenn Lima, kozyndan, Lucas Pincer Flynn, Michelle Sakai-Hart, Pawena Studio, Sun-mo Koo , Taehoon Kim .
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Pre-Show,”Added to Its Popular “WaterWorld,”
to Coincide with the Theatrical Release of The Fall Guy, Opening in Theatres May 3
Sunday, April 28 at 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM (DUB)
Monday, April 29 at 7:00 PM (SUB)
Tuesday, April 30 at 7:00 PM (DUB)
Wednesday, May 1 at 7:00 PM (SUB)
Sun. Apr. 28 - Sat. May 4, 2024
Egyptian Theatre and Aero Theatre
Newly struck 70mm print!
THE SEARCHERS (1956) was filmed in VistaVision and released in 1.85. WB’s Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original 8 perf 35mm VistaVision camera negative in 13k with all restoration work completed in 6.5k, Jan Yarbrough, Colorist. The 70mm film print was created at Fotokem by filming out a new 65mm negative. WB’s Post Production Creative Services restored the original mono audio mix, with Doug Mountain as lead and assistance from Matt Vowles. Inventure Studios created the DTS encoded deliverable of the restored audio to playback flawlessly with the 70mm film print. The Film Foundation has given approval of this newly restored version.
stories about the UCB and before they hit the big time.
Free Entry, Family Friendly Beer Garden, No Pets.
Smorgasburg is the largest weekly open-air food market in America, with markets in Los Angeles attracting 50,000 people each weekend to eat from a hundred local vendors.
Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission $
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Pixels So Good: Jimmy and Baby
Paul Robertson's latest 16-bit looking short is a 20 minute adventure about two frogs committing robbery and going to Hell. Crazy how much can be put on screen! It's so filled with...everything, you'll have to re-watch to catch it all. Oh, and NSFW with boobs and blood. It looks like he had help from his old friends from Mecha Fetus, that we covered ages ago for Anime Expo. Now you can catch Mecha Fetus's memebers work in random cons and video games.
Friday, April 19, 2024
The Gentlemen On Netflix
By Jonathan Bilski
I didn't expect to have so much fun with The Gentleman, the new Guy Ritchie series on Netflix, but it
what Ritchie's best at. British gangster life with a nice dose of violence. The premise, Edward Horniman has just become the Duke of Halstead. He didn't realize his father had let some of his family's multi-acre land be used for an underground weed-growing empire run by the daughter of a notorious mobster. What follows is him trying to get his family out of such an affair, but learning he might be good at the dealing with all the problems a drug lord has.
I'm not done with the series, but it's only 8 episodes about an hour each. So far, I've gotten to learn the fam, including an idiotic older brother who had to dress like a chicken to appease...let's say business debts. Susie Glass, the posh lady in charger of the weed empire, who seems to team-up with the duke quite often on solving mmm...certain problems such an empire has. And, each episode is a charming and violent look into the criminal underbelly of England.
Now, I'm a big fan of Ritchie's film Snatch and this show wears it on its sleeves. I'm constantly taken back to one of my favorite films, but everything feels fresh with the new actors, some of his favorites are back, but mainly new actors bringing his violent world to life.
As always, don't want to give that much away, but if you want some family drama on a lovely estate with each episode like a mini-movie, why not? Oh, and of course the proper amount of bloody time.
Highly recommended, if the algorithm somehow missed you and you haven't started seeing it.
Horror Hype: Abigail Out Now, The Devil's Bath, IFC's In a Violent Nature & Humane
The Devil's Bath comes from the people who brought us Goodnight Mommy and is coming to Shudder June 28th. Been looking forward to this one since reading about research going into it by Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala in Rue Morgue. If memory serves, I think it goes over the fact you could legally kill people if you think they weren't going to make to Heaven or would do something sinful later. So the people who were murdering you might think they were doing G-d's work and helping your eternal soul.
SYNOPSIS - In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison. Giving a voice to the invisible and unheard women of the rural past; THE DEVIL’S BATH is based on historical court records about a shocking, hitherto unexplored chapter of European history.
I've got two from IFC
In a Violent Nature is a new take on the slasher film from the perspective of the slasher. To be more accurate, one of your classic undead slashers like Jason. From what I've read, it's a slow burn film as you literally spend time just wandering the woods with the killer waiting to find whatever stupid teenagers/college kids woke him up from his eternal sleep. And, when it gets violent, oh, it gets violent. Out in theaters May 31st.
Cronenberg's kids don't fall that far from the tree as his daughter made this scary look at the future. Caitlin Cronenberg takes us to a future where 20% of the population is asked to kill itself. Sadly, after some skips out of a family event, the government still needs to take a body to reduce the numbers.
Out April 26th in theaters, then comes to Shudder July 26th.