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FilmWeek: ‘Burnt,’ ‘Our Brand is Crisis,’ ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ and more

(L-R) Mario Batali, Daniel Bruhl, Sienna Miller, Sam Keeley, Uma Thurman and Bradley Cooper attend the "BURNT" New York Press Conference at The London Hotel on October 20, 2015 in New York City.
(L-R) Mario Batali, Daniel Bruhl, Sienna Miller, Sam Keeley, Uma Thurman and Bradley Cooper attend the "BURNT" New York Press Conference at The London Hotel on October 20, 2015 in New York City.
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Wade Major review this week’s new releases including “Burnt,” “Our Brand is Crisis,” “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” and more.
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Wade Major review this week’s new releases including “Burnt,” “Our Brand is Crisis,” “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” and more.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Wade Major review this week’s new releases including “Burnt” starring Bradley Cooper, “Our Brand is Crisis” with Sandra Bullock as a political operative, the comic horror “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse,” and more.

Plus we remember the late star of Hollywood classics, Maureen O’Hara.

FilmWeek: ‘Burnt,’ ‘Our Brand is Crisis,’ ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ and more

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FilmWeek: ‘Burnt,’ ‘Our Brand is Crisis,’ ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ and more

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Wade Major review this week’s new releases including “Burnt” starring Bradley Cooper, “Our Brand is Crisis” with Sandra Bullock as a political operative, the comic horror “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” and more.

Plus we remember the late star of Hollywood classics, Maureen O’Hara.

Guests:

Wade Major , film critic for KPCC and host for IGN’s DigiGods.com

Henry Sheehan, film critic for KPCC and CriticsAGoGo.com

Showbiz everywoman Illeana Douglas on her life in Hollywood

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Showbiz everywoman Illeana Douglas on her life in Hollywood

Actress Illeana Douglas recounts her weird, dazzling, and authentic Hollywood life in a new memoir, "I Blame it on Dennis Hopper."

The striking performer - best known for "Cape Fear," "Goodfellas," and "Ghost World" - has been on movie sets since she was a little girl tagging along with her Academy Award-winning grandfather Melvin Douglas.

Her father chose more of a life-imitating-art route after seeing "Easy Rider" and trying a commune lifestyle for the family. (Douglas herself would later work with "Easy Rider" star Dennis Hopper.)  It has all added up to an inspired career and a large reverence for making movies and television.

Guest:

Illeana Douglas, Author, “ I Blame it on Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies ” (Flatiron Books, Nov. 3, 2015)  Actress, Writer, Producer, Director known for “Cape Fear,” “Goodfellas,” and more