FilmWeek: ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout,’ ‘Teen Titans Go! To The Movies,’ ‘Puzzle’ and Quentin Tarantino's Hollywood Blvd.

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Guest host Alex Cohen and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Wade Major and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also look into how Director Quentin Tarantino is recreating a late 60s era Hollywood Boulevard for his next movie.

FilmWeek: ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout,’ ‘Teen Titans Go! To The Movies,’ ‘Puzzle’ and Quentin Tarantino's Hollywood Blvd.

Guest host Alex Cohen and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Wade Major and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also look into how Director Quentin Tarantino is recreating a late 60s era Hollywood Boulevard for his next movie.

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Guest host Alex Cohen and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Wade Major and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also examine how Director Quentin Tarantino is recreating a late 60s era Hollywood Boulevard for his next movie. 

FilmWeek: ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout,’ ‘Teen Titans Go! To The Movies,’ ‘Puzzle’ and more

Guest host Alex Cohen and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire, Wade Major and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases.

• "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" in wide release

• "Teen Titans Go! To The Movies" in wide release 

• "Puzzle" at ArcLight Hollywood & The Landmark       

• "The Bleeding Edge" at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center & streaming on Netflix   

• "Hot Summer Nights" at AMC Sunset  

• "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" at ArcLight Hollywood

• "Dark Money" at Nuart Theatre

CRITICS' HITS

Christy: "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" &  "Teen Titans Go! To The Movies" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb49-oV0F78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9WhJyyTtqo

Wade: "Puzzle" & "The Bleeding Edge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_SoMNi0rw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slmilObZl28

MIXED FEELINGS

Wade: "Dark Money"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqhDHLgTJGw

MISSES 

Charles: "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qn6HxTJp0k

Christy: "Hot Summer Nights"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ROSS9ReUY

Guests:

Christy Lemire, film critic for KPCC, RogerEbert.com and co-host of YouTube’s “What the Flick?”;she tweets

Wade Major, film critic for KPCC and CineGods.com

Charles Solomon, film critic for KPCC, Animation Scoop and Animation Magazine

How 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' is recreating a stretch of Hollywood Blvd. in all its grimy late 60s glory

If you've been in Hollywood this week, you may have noticed things look a bit different as a famous filmmaker transforms the neighborhood into the Tinsel Town of his youth.

Director Quentin Tarantino's currently making his next movie, "Once Upon A Time" With Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The film is set in 1969 and production crews have been transforming a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard between Cherokee and Las Palmas - meticulously recreating businesses from that groovy chapter of L.A.'s history.

Guest host Alex Cohen hops in the time machine with a couple of Los Angeles historians and the owner of a vintage movie bookshop on Hollywood Blvd to reminisce about late 60s era Hollywood and look at the accuracy of the makeover.

You can read Alex Cohen’s full story here.

Guests

Chris Nichols, writer for Los Angeles Magazine; he tweets

Alison Martino, columnist for Los Angeles Magazine and creator of the site, Vintage Los Angeles, which documents LA’s physical transformation during the 20th Century; she tweets

Jeff Mantor, owner of Larry Edmunds Bookshop, a vintage bookstore on Hollywood Blvd. specializing in movie books and memorabilia