Who is the number one star working in movies today?         Not the best actor; the biggest star.   Tough one, isn’t it?   It seems to change from year to year.   Heck, it seems to change from movie to movie.   Box-office drawing power is literally as fickle as we are.   So now I ask all [...]

The University of La Verne Theatre Arts Department’s upcoming production of Lindsay-Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play promises audiences seven emotionally charged performances in Dailey Theatre, Feb. 4-6 and Feb. 11-13 at 7:30 p.m.

      Welcome again, film fans, to “Upon Further Review”.   This week’s ancient movie review features an ancient movie star with a twist.   Because I guarantee you, she’s the biggest movie star you’ve never ever even heard of….       It’s called “Big City”, and it was released in 1937.   That’s a big fat 73 years ago.   Yes, [...]

This is LaVerneOnline’s new old movie column everyone’s talking about, penned by our very own Dr. of Filmology Brad Eastland. He takes you behind the scenes and shares some quirky perspectives that you won’t find anywhere else. This week he looks at The Bigamist starring Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Edmund O’ Brien.

…UPON FURTHER REVIEW, by Brad Eastland, A.F.D.  (that’s short for ‘Doctor of Ancient Filmology’)                      Recently one of my publishers, the redoubtable Colleen Bennett, suggested (which is to say insisted) that I commence a column specializing in the review of movies.   More specifically, the review of old movies.       Interesting idea, I thought.         Anyone who [...]

Friends are coming into town, you’re off for a few extra days, play hooky and catch some of the year’s best flicks, according to the Los Angeles Film Critics whose selections were released Dec. 13, 2009.

At 9 a.m., head down the freeway to Cypress College to watch our Bonita ladies vie for the CIF crown against Hacienda Heights Los Altos in the Division 3-AA final at 10 in gym No. 2. Twice earlier in the season, the Lady Bearcats defeated the Conquerors, but getting the hat trick with so much [...]

For more than 75 years, Federico García Lorca’s tragic play “Bodas de Sangre” (in English, “Blood Wedding”) has been considered a classic of European theatre. But this riveting tale of passion, fury, retribution and death – based on a true story – could easily have been constructed from today’s headlines. The University of La Verne Theatre [...]

It being the start of football season, I can’t resist this story: Frank Szymanski, a Notre Dame center in the 1940s was called as a witness in a civil case. He answered a series of questions. “Son, are you on the Notre Dame football team this year?” “Yes, your honor.” “What position?” “Center, your honor.” “How good a center are you?” Szymanski [...]