Feature: Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague and its Criterion release
The topic: Richard Linklater's 2025 film Nouvelle Vague tries to accurately capture the filming process of one of French New Wave's most inf...
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FilmWeek on AirTalk, hosted by Larry Mantle, is a one-hour weekly segment devoted to films. It offers reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussions on various...
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FilmWeek: ‘Digger,’ ‘Verity,’ ‘Atonement’ and more!
The topic: FilmWeek critics Tim Cogshell and Christy Lemire disagree on the effectiveness of Alejandro Iñárritu's new film Dig...
Feature: Documentarian John Wilson talks about ‘The History of Concrete’
The topic: Finding humor and fascination in the mundane is John Wilson's signature. After closing out his acclaimed HBO series How To with J...
FilmWeek: ‘Primetime,’ ‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother,’ ‘Forgotten Island’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and FilmWeek critics review Primetime , starring Robert Pattinson as NBC Dateline host Chris Hansen, best known for...
Feature: What big releases from the 51st TIFF should you look out for?
The topic: It's the final weekend of the 51st annual Toronto International Film Festival and a handful of movie premieres are already stirri...
FilmWeek: ‘Resident Evil,’ ‘Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom,’ ‘The Weight’ and more!
The topic: The Halloween season begins this week in earnest with the new Shaun the Sheep movie— The Beast of Mossy Bottom —from...
FilmWeek: ‘Practical Magic 2,’ ‘Hope,’ ‘The Uprising’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle is joined by our FilmWeek critics Christy Lemire and Katie Walsh to review this week's biggest film releases, includ...
Feature: What are some of your favorite movie stars' favorite movies?
The topic: In his new book 50 Movie Nights: Contemporary Stars on Their Favorite Classic Films , Turner Classic Movies host Dave Karger aske...
What makes Michael Mann’s Collateral one of the best LA set films?
The topic: For our most recent FilmWeek screening, Larry Mantle and critics Tim Cogshell and Claudia Puig traveled down to Santa Ana to the...
FilmWeek: ‘By Any Means,’ ‘The Sun Never Sets,’ ‘Onslaught’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and film critics Peter Rainer and Manuel Betancourt discuss this week's biggest releases, including the quiet but sw...
Feature: Remembering Tim Curry
The topic : Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N...
FilmWeek: ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ ‘The Dog Stars,’ ‘Finding Emily’ and more!
The topic : Larry Mantle and this week's critics review the long-awaited Coyote vs. Acme, starring Wile E. Coyote and the other Looney Tunes...
Feature: It’s back to school! Our critics share their favorite school-set flicks
The topic: Summer is over and school is back in session. So we thought we would ask our FilmWeek critics what some of their favorite school-...
FilmWeek: ‘Insidious: Out of the Further,’ ‘It Ends,’ ‘Mutiny’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and film critics Peter Rainer and Tim Cogshell talk about the latest installment in the Insidious franchise, and yes...
Feature: Directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio on their Emmy-nominated Mel Brooks documentary
The topic : The two-part documentary Mel Brooks: The 99 Year-Old Man! has garnered 6 primetime Emmy nominations including Outstanding Docume...
FilmWeek: ‘The End of Oak Street,’ ‘Don’t Say Good Luck,’ ‘Late Fame’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Christy Lemire and Maureen Lee Lenker review this weekend's latest movie releases in theaters...
Feature: Why some of the greatest romance movies started as novels
The topic: In a follow up to her book But Have You Read the Book? , author Kristen Lopez focuses on romance movies that were adapted from or...
FilmWeek: ‘One Night Only,’ ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,’ ‘Tony’ and more!
The topic: Larry Mantle and the critics discuss the confusing intricacies at play in the society of One Night Only and the impressive storyt...
We talk to an IMAX projectionist about The Odyssey IMAX 70mm craze
The topic: Don't understand the 70mm IMAX craze for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ? LAist host Julia Paskin talked to Taylor Umphenour, on...
FilmWeek: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘I Want Your Sex,’ ‘Middle Life,’ and more!
The topic: Julia Paskin and the LAist film critics talk about the fourth installment to the Tom Holland Spider-Man series that takes an intr...