FilmWeek

KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon join Larry to review the week’s new film releases including Carlos, My Dog Tulip, Inhale, GhettoPhysics: Will The Real Pimps And Ho’s Please Stand Up!, and Ticked Off Trannies With Knives, among others. Later, what are your favorite political or election-themed movies? TGI-FilmWeek!

FilmWeek: KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com and Lael Loewensten of Variety join Larry to review the week’s new film releases including Hereafter, Red, Conviction, Down Terrace and Almar, among others. TGI-Filmweek!

KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com and Claudia Puig of USA Today join Larry to review the week’s new film releases including Secretariat, Life As We Know It, Stone, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story, Tamara Drewe, Nowhere Boy, and Leaving, among others. TGI-FilmWeek!

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell, Senior Film Critic for Box Office Magazine and Andy Klein, film critic for Brand X join Larry to discuss the week’s new film releases including The Social Network, Howl, Case 39, Let Me In, Barry Munday, and The Girl, among others. Later, director Stephen Frears on his new comedy Tamara Drewe; and, the directors of Catfish.

TGI-FilmWeek! KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com, Andy Klein of Brand X and Charles Solomon of amazon.com discuss the week’s new film releases including Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, You Again, Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Buried, Waiting For Superman, and Enter The Void, among others. Later, he’s one of the few directors of his time who became a household name. Cecil B. DeMille’s extraordinary film career began with silent movies and soared to spectacles like The Ten Commandments and King of Kings, for which he became known later. His reputation rests largely on the biblical epics he made, but his personal life was no morality tale. DeMille was married for five decades to his beloved wife Constance, but for most of the marriage he had three mistresses simultaneously. Author Scott Eyman joins us to talk about his appreciation for the legendary movie mogul as detailed in the new biography, Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein of Variety and Tim Cogshell of BoxOffice Magazine join Larry to discuss the week’s new film releases including The Town, Never Let Me Go, Easy A, Jack Goes Boating, Alpha And Omega, Lovely Still and Catfish, among others. TGI-FilmWeek! What’s hot and what’s not at the Toronto Film Festival? Peter Rainer and Claudia Puig share their crib sheets. Later, from the soundtracks for Chinatown and An American in Paris, to L.A. Confidential and Dances With Wolves, Uan Rasey and Malcolm McNab have created some of the most memorable movie music in film history.

KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com and Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com review this week’s new releases including The Romantics, I’m Still Here, Heartbreaker, and Sequestro among others. Later, the director of Sequestro. TGI-FilmWeek!

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today and Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com discuss the week’s new film releases including The American, Going The Distance, Machete, A Woman A Gun And A Noodle Shop, and Soul Kitchen, among others. Later, Larry talks with the daughter of Boris Karloff, Sara Karloff, about the new DVD box set, Thriller, the 1960-1962 NBC anthology series that Karloff hosted and frequently starred in the films. Larry will also talk with Sara Karloff and about the life and legacy of her father.

FilmWeek: KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com and Andy Klein of Brand X review the week’s new film releases including Takers, Centurion, Mesrine: Killer Instinct, The Last Exorcism, The People I’ve Slept With and The Kid: Chamaco, TGI-FilmWeek! Then, David and FilmWeek critic Peter Rainer Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor discuss the new exhibit running from September 16th – December 12th, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “Ingmar Bergman: Truth And Lies.” There will also be an accompanying film series at LACMA, “Cries and Whispers: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman” and film screenings at The Goethe Institut. “Directors Cut,” “Special Edition,” “Expanded Edition,”…no matter what you call them, are repacked releases a gimmick? In light of Avatar’s theatrical re-release as a special edition with additional footage, David Lazarus takes your calls about Special Edition releases to theaters and home video….are they worth it? Which have you liked, or not?

KPCCs film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com and Tim Cogshell of Boxoffice Magazine review the week’s new film releases including The Switch, Lottery Ticket, Nanny McPhee Returns, The Tillman Story and A Film Unfinished, among others. Later, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Fest. And, will the summer movie season end with a bang... or a whimper? What films would you like to see come out of Hollywood? TGI-FilmWeek!