Author Archives: Amy Crocker

“Music and Lyrics” Director Marc Lawrence warner bros. pictures A 1980s-style music video, complete with tight pants, mullets and lame special effects, plays at the opening credits of “Music and Lyrics” and again at the closing credits. This too-cheesy-to-be-true music video gets the audience laughing right from the start and giggling again on the way […]

At first glance, the three-hour, Oscar-winning “Titanic” and the 93-minute, Emmy-winning Disney Channel Original Movie “High School Musical” look like they have nothing in common. Besides, of course, hot male leads (Leonardo DiCaprio and newcomer Zac Efron, respectively) causing a mad rush among 13-year-old girls to find magazines with tear-out posters of their pretty faces. […]

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” Saturdays, Midnight The Nuart Theater Every Saturday at midnight, both men and women put on their short skirts and high heels and stand in line at the Nuart Theater in Santa Monica, calling each other names. No, they are not prostitutes. They are the fanatical fans of “The Rocky Horror […]

“Factory Girl” Director George Hickenlooper The Weinstein Company She was the epitome of an “It Girl” ““ cool and careless. In the mid-1960s, Edie Sedgwick, the trust-fund baby turned style icon turned drug addict was inseparable from artist Andy Warhol. In Director George Hickenlooper’s “Factory Girl,” when Warhol (Guy Pearce, “Memento”) first spots Sedgwick (Sienna […]

Over winter break, Kyle Ochs completed a marathon. He credits pizza for his success. “I needed food. I was drinking a Red Bull, but it wasn’t working,” said Ochs, a fourth-year electrical engineering student. “The key player had to be getting a giant, 18-inch Costco pizza.” This was obviously no ordinary marathon. This was a […]

American television is different than English television, and not just because we use better-looking actors or have a different version of “The Office.” In the United States, channels such as NBC, ABC and CBS are free ““ you don’t have to pay for cable to watch them. Anyone can hook a television up to the […]

In 1964, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, seven child actors and a bunch of people dressed as nuns and Nazis all came to Salzburg, Austria to film “The Sound of Music.” And when you go there today, you can still feel the history spraying out of every fountain, shining from every raindrop on every rose, and […]