To echo something I wrote in my last piece, the COVID-19 pandemic, more than anything else, will bring about many, many societal changes. It’s going to linger in the ether for a long time after it’s over, and there will be numerous,…
Amongst the many, many societal changes to everyday life brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic, “watch at home now” will soon be the new “now playing at a theater near you.”
In response to the widespread closure of movie theaters worldwide, Hollywood…
COVID-19 has finally closed LPC’s campus and, by the sound of things, preparations are being made for it to stay closed a lot longer than the three weeks initially given.
An email Monday night from interim Chancellor Ron Gerhard, President of Chabot…
The spread of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has forced a temporary shutdown of in-person classes in the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District.
An email was sent from Interim Chancellor Ronald Gerhard to the campus community on March 11, announcing that,…
The Las Positas College Theater Arts program is on a roll.
After the rousing success of last semester’s “Evil Dead: The Musical,” the program has tackled something a little more traditional, yet still unique with “Stage Door.”
It is a good production of a…
After my last disastrous trip to the cinema to see the Harley Quinn movie, I had little hope that my latest sojourn to the downtown Livermore multiplex would yield anything but another two hours of my life down the drain.
That all changed…
Color me shocked — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences actually chose to award their Best Picture award to a movie that really deserved it, Bong Joon-Ho’s “Parasite.”
For an awards ceremony on the brink of complete irrelevancy that celebrates an…
The newest offering of the DC Comics extended movie universe is kinda like when you were a kid and one of the other kids poured ketchup and candy and soda and salt and crunched up chips on their plate of leftover school…
As a longtime horror-nerd, I’ll admit I scoffed a little when I first saw a flier for “Evil Dead: the Musical.”
I wondered how could any such production do justice to one of the most iconic film series in all of horror…
With the release of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” film fandom has arrived at a crossroads.
In typical Scorsese fashion, the film is a monumental work — deliberately told, elegiac and epic in length. It’s sweeping and much more sorrowful than Scorsese’s previous…