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Writer-director Alan Rudolph’s confident, revealing and entertaining 1976 ensemble film Welcome to LA is much like those of his mentor, producer Robert Altman, a plotless look at a group of mostly middle-class people, who include […]
Director Mick Jackson’s funny and charming 1991 movie finds Steve Martin in romantic comedy mood with a sweet love poem to Los Angeles and his then British wife Victoria Tennant. He must have got it […]
The scrappy 1994 third Beverly Hills Cop movie is by turns off-puttingly violent and stupidly slapstick, though it is helped along with capable, slick direction from John Landis and the thinly appealing, lightly professional performances. […]
Dan Aykroyd stars in and co-writes director Tom Mankiewicz’s amiable 1987 nostalgic film parody of Jack Webb’s great Fifties TV cop show (1951–1959) and 1954 movie Dragnet. Aykroyd plays Sgt Joe Friday’s bumbling nephew, who […]
Reese Witherspoon plays 40-year-old single mom Alice, who has just left her English husband Austen (Michael Sheen) behind in New York and re-located to her late Oscar-winning film director father’s lovely house in Los Angeles. […]
Writer-director Dax Shepard’s cert 15, R-rated 2017 action comedy is a mindless, mirthless and mucky belated TV series movie spin-off. The likeable and hard-working star duo of Dax Shepard and Michael Peña, playing miss-matched cops, could be […]
The nailbiting 1976 non-stop action thriller film Assault on Precinct 13 about a gang of delinquents besieging a strangely empty Los Angeles police station deservedly helped to catapult its writer-director John Carpenter into the big […]