Links

PEOPLE:

Steve Carlson - The Ongoing Cinematic Education of Steven Carlson
Steve is on hiatus right now. When he's not he brings you some film commentary in bullet point form.

Mike D'Angelo - The Man Who Viewed Too Much
Despite corporate attempts to rid the world of film critics, Mike D'Angelo still writes for Esquire, Las Vegas Weekly and Nerve. He also blogs and twitters for his own amusement and for your reading pleasure. Movie critics don't come much smarter and certainly very few can compare with Mike's writing chops.

Jeremy Heilman - The Movie Martyr
Jeremy comes to life every year for TIFF, where his output is prodigious and puts almost everyone to shame, but during the school year things can be very quiet on the Jed front.

Sky Hirschkron - Baaab's Insanity
There is very little activity here now. His short films are definitely worth a viewing though.

Glenn Kenny - Some Came Running
Will kick your ass, motherfucker.

Adam Lemke - Movie Miser
Adam is not a psychopathic, chainsaw murderer but that doesn't mean he won't watch films about them.

Theo Panayides - Theo's Century of Movies
Theo has a running gag where he puts a message at the top of his site and pretends he is going to slow down on his film writing and it causes great sadness in large intraweb auditorium of Theo fanboys. Then Theo returns with a couple dozen intelligent and insightful capsule posts that make you feel smarter for just having read them.

Zach Ralston - Private Joker's Head
Zach now updates his site every other full moon and only then if that date ends with an even number. He is too busy taking money from donks at the LA cardrooms.

Vadim Rizov - Still Not Dead
Vadim is so eager to prove that he's not dead that he writes for nearly every blog and Alt-Weekly around.

Dan Sallitt - Thanks for the Use of the Hall
I'm not always on the same wavelength with Dan but I read his blog faithfully and I always know that the films he recommends will be adventurous and often challening. He is also quite a talented filmmaker in his own right.

Jared Sapolin - Twitters with himself
I'm pretty sure Jared is now more into film than TV, it's just hard to tell that by the grades he gives out on his Twitter.

Michael Sicinski - The Academic Hack
Michael is intimidatingly smart and insightful when it comes to the cinema and is easily the coolest critic in the pages of Cinemascope.

Mike Spreter - In the Clamor & the Clangor.
Mike is trying to shed his former Emo Boy persona by running with street punks and eating raw meat. He also sometimes writes stuff about music and film.

Ryan Wu - Pigs and Battleships
Politics, Poker and Sports. Sometimes Movies.

PLACES:

New Beverly Cinema
Pros: Double features for $7 bucks.
Cons: Seat springs in your ass.

The Cinefamily
Pros: Eccentric programming that covers all bases. Crumbs cupcakes.
Cons: You might not be hip enough to be in the company of these folks.

American Cinemateque
Pros: Old films and usually great prints.
Cons: You might not be old enough to be in the company of these folks.

UCLA
Pros: Academic type film programming.
Cons: They take months off at a time.

LACMA
Pros: Occasionally they show something awesome.
Cons: Key word there is "occasionally."