News This summer, Filmusik—a collective of local musicians, composers and voice actors, which performs live soundtracks to classic films—is taking on the 1939 Paramount Pictures animation of Gulliver's Travels, recreating every line, song, and sound-effect in front of audience's eyes and ears at the Hollywood Theatre. I spent 95 percent of the show grinning ear-to-ear, completely absorbed ...   More

News Sometimes when dreaming, I will come to the sudden realization that everything that has been happening to me in my slumbering reveries is in fact a film that I am watching (for some reason, it is always showing outdoors, at dusk). I don't know whether this recurring epiphany is some act of self-protection by my unconscious or merely an inevitable result of working as a movie critic, but it does ...   More