Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Wade Major and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases.
FilmWeek: ‘The Grudge,’ ‘Mystify: Michael Hutchence,’ & ‘Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf 4’
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Wade Major and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases.
" The Grudge " in wide release
" Mystify: Michael Hutchence " in select theaters (check local listings)
" Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf 4 " at Laemmle’s Royal & Laemmle’s Town Center
Critics' Hits:
Wade: "Mystify: Michael Hutchence"
Misses:
Amy: "The Grudge"
Charles: "Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf 4"
Guests:
Amy Nicholson , film critic for KPCC, film writer for The Guardian and host of the podcasts ‘Unspooled’ and the podcast miniseries “ Zoom ”; she tweets
Wade Major , film critic for KPCC and CineGods.com
Charles Solomon, film critic for KPCC, Animation Scoop and Animation Magazine
KPCC’s FilmWeek Critics Share Their Top Films Of The 2010s And Review The Decade In Comedies
With the end of the decade came the predictable onslaught of “best of” articles, listicles and reviews of the 2010s in everything from news to music to pop culture and more. So, we here at FilmWeek feel we’d be remiss if we didn’t ask our critics to share their favorite films of the last decade with our listeners and to hear suggestions from FilmWeek listeners as well. Los Angeles Times film critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan released their top films of the decade this week along with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association .
Plus, we’ll explore the decade in comedies. Were the 2010s an overall good decade for the comedy genre? Or did you find it lacking when compared to another decade? What were some of your favorite movies of the 2010s?
Here are our critics' favorites of the decade, in no particular order:
Amy Nicholson
Social Network (2010)
Compliance (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Master (2012)
Her (2013)
Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Tangerine (2015)
Anomalisa (2015)
The Lobster (2015)
Moonlight (2016)
The Handmaiden (2016)
First Reformed (2017)
Florida Project (2017)
Young Adult (2011)
MacGruber (2010)
Sausage Party (2016)
Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Wade Major
Incendies (2010)
The Artist (2011)
Tree of Life (2011)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Coming Home (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
La La Land (2016)
Hostiles (2017)
Charles Solomon (Animation)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
The Wind Rises (2013)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Song of the Sea (2014)
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Inside Out (2015)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Your Name (2016)
Guests:
Amy Nicholson , film critic for KPCC, film writer for The Guardian and host of the podcasts ‘ Unspooled ’ and the podcast miniseries “ Zoom ”; she tweets
Wade Major , film critic for KPCC and CineGods.com
Charles Solomon, film critic for KPCC, Animation Scoop and Animation Magazine
In The First Biography On Director Sidney Lumet, A Storied Career Is Revisited
With a career that spanned fourteen Best Picture nominations, director Sidney Lumet produced an incredible body of work that included American classics like “12 Angry Men” and “Network.”
In Sidney Lumet: A Life, the first biography of the director, author Maura Spiegel maps his career from his early days off-Broadway to a successful run in television directing and, finally, to Hollywood, where Lumet directed names like Katherine Hepburn, Al Pacino, Philip Seymour-Hoffman and Paul Newman. Many of the films he became known for-- including “Serpico,” “The Verdict” and “Dog Day Afternoon” -- are deeply rooted in themes of disillusionment and morality. Often set in New York, Lumet’s films are marked by his quick directing style and his actors’ fevered, propulsively emotional deliveries. When Lumet died in 2011, he left us with some of the most significant psychological American films ever produced.
Today on AirTalk, author Maura Spiegel discusses Lumet’s life and legacy.
Guest:
Maura Spiegel , author of the new book “Sidney Lumet: A Life” (MacMillan, 2019); professor of fiction and film and co-director of the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University