Los Angeles Times3 hours agoLawmakers patch a hole in California’s film tax credit, for nowLos Angeles Times - Cerys Davies, Wendy LeeState lawmakers have approved a series of modest changes intended to bolster California’s film and TV tax credit program. Among the key revisions, independent filmmakers would be exempted from the $5 million state corporate tax credit cap that was approved earlier this year as part of Gov. Gavin …
Los Angeles Times7 hours ago‘Odyssey’ scholar Emily Wilson is translating the epic, again. This time she’s breaking the rulesLos Angeles Times - Emily St. MartinEmily Wilson, the classicist who in a review eviscerated Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” isn’t done with Homer’s epic. She’s translating the ancient Greek poem again. “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version,” Wilson told the Associated Press last week. “I’m about …
Los Angeles Times18 hours agoThe best movies, TV, books, arts and concerts to spice up fallLos Angeles TimesAfter oohing and aahing over “The Odyssey,” it’s time for the hot summer splash to make way for an intriguing fall lineup. At the movies, Alexander Skarsgård plays a sexy wicker husband. Tom Cruise, a bizarro oil man. Jenna Ortega, a robot friend, and Kendall Roy, ahem, Jeremy Strong, is Mark …
Los Angeles Times23 hours agoThe 17 fall movies we can’t wait to seeLos Angeles Times - Amy Nicholson, Mark Olsen, Joshua Rothkopf, Josh Rottenberg, Glenn WhippWho doesn’t love a Hollywood ending — or a beginning? As summer gives way to the inevitable grunts of awards-season jockeying, how wonderful it is to crawl back into the head of our favorite portal John Malkovich, returning with his most complex work in years in “Wild Horse Nine” (hitting theaters …
Los Angeles Times23 hours agoAfter years of the snarky grind, ‘Club Kid’ feels transformative for Jordan FirstmanLos Angeles Times - Joshua RothkopfJust a block up the hill from the Silver Lake Reservoir on one of those secluded streets that feels like the L.A. of the 1970s sits a dark-wood-shingled triplex of apartments. It both is and isn’t a Neutra house. The current occupant of eight years, actor Jordan Firstman, tells us the backstory. “So …
Los Angeles Times23 hours agoJohn Malkovich is still finding new ways to be John MalkovichLos Angeles Times - Josh RottenbergJohn Malkovich has an affectionate habit of warning Nicoletta Peyran, his partner of more than three decades, about the various dangers that might befall her. “I like to send my wife texts of disastrous things that could happen to her if she doesn’t listen,” Malkovich says over Zoom from a hotel in …
