SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Michael. Michael plays out as if it were a film adaptation of Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia page. Although the film has good intentions (or does it?), the execution falls obnoxiously short, making the entire film...
FILM The Warriors with Lawrence Gordon in person – 7:30 PM, April 22: Director Walter Hill’s action classic focuses on street toughs framed for the murder of a charismatic gang leader and forced to flee to their Coney Island neighborhood. Working from a shrewdly...
FILM Real Women Have Curves with director Patricia Cardoso 7:30 PM, April 14: Vidiots is thrilled to welcome director Patricia Cardoso for a special screening of her essential East LA coming-of-age triumph Real Women Have Curves. A humorous and warmhearted look at...
The first Hamlet movie that comes to mind has always been Kenneth Branagh’s full-text adaptation. I only remember it because I watched his word-for-word version of the William Shakespeare tragedy in high school English. It was four hours. It took us four days to...
FILM Daughters of the Dust at Vidiots– 7:30 PM, April 7: Join Vidiots for Julie Dash’s rapturous masterpiece, Daughters of the Dust. As the 20th century dawns, a multi-generational Gullah family from the Sea Islands off of the South Carolina coast struggle to...
FILM Wattstax – 7:30 PM, April 2: One of the most electrifying music documentaries ever, the eternally funky Wattstax is part concert-film and part powerful document of the historic Watts neighborhood of 50 years ago. Known as “The Black Woodstock” Wattstax was...
THEATRE Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – March 25-29: A powerhouse of artistic excellence, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater carries forward a legacy of African American strength, resilience and joy through the power of movement. Founded in 1958 by Alvin...
“Panic at the Disco” is an essay series that unpacks the impact of the Center Theatre Group’s new production of Here Lies Love. The critical journey will explore the complexities of artistic depictions of traumatic events and cultural figures in history and how it...
HERE LIES LOVE is living proof that Filipino performers will forever be a personification of the triple threat, making this production of Here Lies Love a well-oiled musical machine of Filipino history — a Filipino history that can be difficult to watch.
