February 09, 2012

Articles By: Kevin Crust

KEVIN CRUST is a Southern California-based writer and editor of the Eclectic Odeon Review, an online guide to seeing movies in Los Angeles, launching in March 2010. In 18 years at the Los Angeles Times, he worked as a copy editor, senior researcher and staff writer. For most of the past decade, he was a key part of the Times’ award-winning film department, coordinating the Calendar section’s popular Sneaks issues, writing columns on alternative cinema and DVDs, and reviewing hundreds of movies. His work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Hollywood Movie Roundup: ‘Killers,’ ‘Splice,’ ‘Marmaduke’

By Kevin Crust
HollywoodNews.com: A soft May could turn into June gloom at the box-office if the pre-”Toy Story” (June 18) releases all [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: Enter Sandman (but make way for the ladies)

By Kevin Crust
HollywoodNews.com: The summer’s first three-day weekend features a pair of films that figure to split demographically along gender lines with [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: “Shrek” Always, but not 4ever

BY Kevin Crust
HollywoodNews.com: The summer fare keeps coming with nary an original idea in sight. This week’s offerings boast a distinct “Saturday [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: “Hood” — #2 with an Arrow, not a Bullet

BY KEVIN CRUST
Hollywoodnews.com: A return to Sherwood Forest doesn’t herald any type of rich-to-poor stimulus package so the Man in the Iron [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: The New Iron Age

BY KEVIN CRUST
Stand clear everyone, the big guy has landed and the only ones brave enough to share the same weekend are [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: Freddy Gets Fingered

BY KEVIN CRUST
As we head head into the final weekend of spring before movie summer kicks into high gear, it might be [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: J-Lo, comic book action and lots of water

BY KEVIN CRUST
How lackluster a week is this for new movies? A movie in its fourth week of release is likely to [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: Give me “Kick-Ass” or give me “Death”

BY Kevin Crust
You can put your 3D glasses away because for the first time in weeks a 2D movie should rule the [...]

Steve Carrell and Tina Fey in “Date Night” – Hollywood Movie Roundup

BY KEVIN CRUST
Following last week’s three-for-all, a David-vs.-Goliath match-up takes shape at the box office as NBC’s Thursday night comedy stars go [...]

Hollywood Movie Roundup: Will anyone remember these “Titans”?

BY KEVIN CRUST
If you measure Summer by big budget, effects-driven movies, then Summer has arrived. We have a Greek mythology remake that [...]

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