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Articles by Kenne Hoffman
SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN'S BLOOM!
Nestled on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula lies one of Los Angeles’ many hidden gems. The South Coast Botanic Garden began in 1961 as a sanitary landfill reclamation project and has blossomed into over 2,500 thriving plants and wildlife species residing on the 87-acre horticultural and wildlife habitat. The South Coast Botanic Garden Invites you to Awaken your senses with “Bloom!” the new exhibit opening April 1 featuring 5 installments showcasing Mother Nature in her spring finest.
Música | LAArtsOnline.com
Riverdale’s Camila Mendes is Executive Producing and Staring alongside Rudy Mancuso in Amazon Studios new Rom-Com Música: Face the Music. Mancuso rose to fame thanks to the now-defunct platform Vine and has since become a successful creator across multiple platforms, including YouTube where he continued making comedy skits and started the channel Awkward Puppets and he appeared as an opener during Justin Bieber‘s Purpose World Tour.
THE REGIME | LAArtsOnline.com
Deception, political intrigue, and illicit affairs. No, not in Washington, DC — in HBO’s latest original limited series The Regime. The show depicts a year within the palace of a crumbling authoritarian regime. The location is a play on a lot of countries, be it Russia, North Korea, of maybe even the United States. Viewers can decide for themselves.
THE FALL GUY | LAArtsOnline.com
Skip to content LAArtsOnline.com | Arts In Los Angeles April 2024 Celebrating the Arts since 2012 The 1970s and 1980s were an era of great television. I remember gathering around the TV with my family to watch whichever show was airing that evening on one of the seven channels we got. In the 70s I loved Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man and in the 80s I followed Majors onto The Fall Guy.
ARTHUR THE KING | LAArtsOnline.com
Falling in love with your co-star is a tale as old as time in Hollywood, but Mark Wahlberg took it to a whole new level after filming wrapped on Entertainment One’s “Arthur the King”. Wahlberg was so smitten he discussed bringing his co-star home to live with his 4 children and wife Rhea Durham. The entire family agreed after falling hard for Ukai who played Arthur alongside Wahlberg’s character Michael Light.
UPGRADED | LAArtsOnline.com
Dream big dreams and do anything you can to achieve them! A common theme in romantic comedies. Hold on tightly to your dreams and do not devalue your self-worth. Sometimes the genre manages to transcend the formula with films like The Devil Wears Prada or a successful series like Emily in Paris. “Upgrade” has managed to touch the hearts of viewers in a way that many fall short of. It is refreshing to see a film that doesn’t try to be anything more than what it is, a sweet enjoyable film.
TRACKER | LAArtsOnline.com
Jeffery Deaver’s best-selling Colter Shaw Series “The Never Game” serves as the inspiration for CBS’s upcoming original series Tracker. Deaver is an international best-selling author whose novels have been sold in 150 countries and in twenty-five languages. Tracker is the first installment based upon the books in the series. The son of a survivalist family, Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley, This is Us, Smallville) is an expert tracker.
PART TWO | LAArtsOnline.com
A handful of names come to mind as the pioneers of the Sci-Fi Genre. Isaac Azimov, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas, and Frank Herbert are names that must be on that list. Each contributed rich alternative environments and character driven narratives. Several films and television series have been created based upon Frank Herbert’s best-selling “Dune” series of novels which won multiple awards and have sold almost twenty million copies worldwide in dozens of languages.
MADAME WEB | LAArtsOnline.com
Growing up a fan of comics and 60’s/70’s super-hero television, I usually gravitated to DC characters and storylines. Fans usually have a strong alliance to one side or the other. It is an unexpected surprise that in recent years, I have gravitated more to Marvel comics, films, and television series. I am unsure of the reason behind this but have enjoyed discovering a whole new (multi) Universe from Marvel.
Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
The overall winner of the holiday weekend film openings was Warner Bros. Hands down! Warner dominated this year’s holiday marquee with “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” Wonka and The Color Purple, landing the top three (in that order) for total gross sales.
ENCHANTED FOREST OF LIGHT
Skip to content LAArtsOnline.com | Arts In Los Angeles December 2023 Celebrating the Arts since 2012 Nestled in the foothills of La Canada Flintridge is Southern California’s beloved urban retreat known as the Descanso Gardens. 150 acres of cultivated and wild lands. The gardens have so much to offer any time of year, but one of my favorite times is during the Holiday Season. A great time to shake off the stress that comes with the most wonderful time of the year.
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE & EXPERIENCE
Squid Game released world-wide in 2021 to critical acclaim and international attention. It quickly became Netflix’s most-watched series and the most-watched program in ninety-four countries with more than 142 million households in the first four weeks on air. It received numerous accolades, including Golden Globe Nominations for Best Supporting Actor and SAG Awards. It received 14 Emmy Nominations. Now we have two new ways to enjoy Squid Game while we await the 2024 second season.
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL
Los Angeles is lucky enough to have not just one, but two opportunities in geographically desirable locations to see the beloved feel-good holiday story of the ages, Dr. Seuss’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas the musical.” Based on the 1957 book of the same name, the musical runs at the Hollywood Pantages December 6-17, 2023, and at Segerstrom Center December 19-24, 2023.
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES
May the odds be ever in this prequel’s favor! Long before Effie Trinket donned her pastel wigs or Katniss Everdeen fired her first arrow, The Capitol City of Panem had won the war and had begun punishing the districts with the annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes the prequel to the best-selling books and $2.97 billion earning film franchise is set to hit the big screen.
FELLOW TRAVELERS
Showtime is set to release its limited series Fellow Travelers, starring Matt Bomer (White Collar, Magic Mike) and Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton, Jack Ryan). Based on Thomas Mallon’s bestselling novel of the same name. Fellow Travelers is described as an epic love story/political thriller thatwill track the “volatile romance” of two men over four decades. The series will make its streaming but on Paramount+ beginning Friday, October 27 before its linear debut on Sunday, October 29 on Showtime.
HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS
For Halloween and horror fans, It’s the most wonderful time of the year! “Halloween Horror Nights” has returned to Universal Studios Hollywood. The theme park has turned to its scary side offering horror fans some truly terrifying experiences based on some of Universal’s horror genre films like Chucky, The Last of Us, The Exorcist and Stranger Things.
THE GILDED AGE | LAArtsOnline.com
A decade after Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes brought us a new historical drama series, The Gilded Age. Trading in the early 1900s England for the bustling city streets of late 1800s New York, The Gilded Age centers on the struggles of a new family in a new time-period and a new continent altogether. “The Gilded Age” was a period featuring technological innovation and opulent wealth. In America it was an era of profound change. 1872 brought the first practical typewriter.
AHSOKA | LAArtsOnline.com
Writer, Director and Producer Dave Filoni brings us the latest television miniseries addition to the Disney Star Wars Galaxy (from far far away), Ahsoka. A spin off from the series The Mandalorian, this takes place in the same time frame as Mandalorian and other previous spin-offs taking place after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). If you or your kids were fans of the animated series Star Wars Rebels, you willalready be familiar with some of the seemingly new characters.
Theatre | LAArtsOnline.com
Skip to content LAArtsOnline.com | Arts In Los Angeles December 2023 Celebrating the Arts since 2012 Holiday Spectacular So, apparently Pasadena has a new tradition. The Playhouse will be putting on another Holiday Spectacular! You better watch out, you better not cry, because something magical is coming to the Playhouse this holiday season.
THE FLASH | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo By WARNER BROS. The Scarlet Speedster, also known as The Flash (Played by Ezra Miller, Fantastic Beasts) speeds into theaters and the hearts of The Flash fans. This marks the first time the character, based on the 1940 comic book character of the same name, has had his own feature film. Barry Allen aka The Flash has had a successful television series (starring Glee’s Grant Gustin) running for nearly a decade.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of MARVEL Get out your 1980’s mix tapes, it’s time for Volume 3 of Guardians of the Galaxy, the third installment of the Marvel Studios & Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture “Guardians” franchise. The first film “Guardians of the Galaxy” premiered in 2014 followed by Volume 2 (2017).
LOVE AGAIN | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of SONY PICTURES Dating as far back as the 1930’s, it has been a trend in Hollywood to remake foreign films. The early success of films like Scarlet Street (1945) a noir tragedy by Fritz Lang, a remake of Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931) have allowed a wider audience to experience already-loved stories. Some of these remakes have even gone on to win big at the Academy Awards. Writer-Director James C.
THE LITTLE MERMAID
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of DISNEY The Walt Disney Company is set to release the latest addition to Disney’s library of Animated turned Live Action Films. The Little Mermaid joins the growing list of films like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Mulan, Dumbo and The Jungle Book. The Little Mermaid is based on the 1989 musical fantasy film, loosely based on the 1937 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Anderson and grossed over 235 million in worldwide.
FOOL’S PARADISE | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) takes the helm as Director and Lead in his new satirical comedy, Fool’s Paradise, about a publicist who is down on his luck.
WORLD OF BARBIE | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Who doesn’t want to be Barbie? After all, she has everything! As kids, most young girls (and some boys) imagined themselves living in a Barbie World. My mother even named me after Barbie’s older brother Ken. Yes … Ken was Barbie’s brother! Ruth and Elliot Handler, creators of Mattel Toys and inventors of the iconic dolls, said they were named after their two children. But weren’t they a couple? Apparently, early contractual negotiations required that Barbie and Ken never marry.
FATAL ATTRACTION
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of Paramount+ Spring is right around the corner and along with it comes flowers and baby animals. But thanks to Paramount+, you may want to keep those bunnies in a safe place. Fatal Attraction begins streaming April 30with the first two of eight episodes. Glenn Close and Michael Douglas are nowhere to be found in this new incarnation, based on the 1987 film in which they starred.
EXTRAPOLATIONS | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of APPLETV+ Apple TV+ has released a new drama series about climate change. Extrapolations features a star-studded cast including Meryl Streep, Kit Harrington, and Marion Cotillard, among others. The series uses the backdrop of current climate change to explore the consequences of human actions that are leading to the degradation of the planet’s environment. The series tells eight interconnected stories that speculatively examine the future from 2037 to 2070.
RIDE | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of Hallmark Channel Saddle up … there’s a new Western series in town! It looks like a perfect feel-good show for Yellowstone fans. Just as Hallmark Channel’s The Way Home ends its successful first season, Hallmark will launch what looks to be another successful character-driven heartwarming series. Ride is a multi-generational ensemble series that follows a rodeo dynastyfamily as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat.
ALIENCON | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN The truth is out there! We can’t be the only living creatures that exist. I keep an open mind, as we all should. Only recently has disclosure become more open, more common. I watch the skies occasionally. Who doesn’t? I remain skeptical but optimistic that if there are other life forms out there, or even already among us, that we may in our lifetime learn the truth. AlienCon is returning to Pasadena Convention Center March 4-5, 2023.
THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 3
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo By Disney+ The bounty hunter known as The Mandalorian (again played by Pedro Pascal) returns with Season 3. But more importantly (to many) Season 3 brings the return of The Child, Grogu.
SHAZAM: FURY OF THE GODS
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of WARNER BROS. Teenager by day, superhero by night (well, anytime he utters the famous word that transforms him). Second in the DC Studios and Newline Cinema film series based on DC’s 1973 Captain Marvel Comic, Shazam: Fury of the Gods flies into theaters March 17, and Shazam (once again played by Zachary Levi) hopes to smash traditional sequel box office expectations.
FROZEN | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of Segerstrom The worldwide phenomenon known as Frozen has also become a blockbuster Broadway musical. The film, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, won Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. “Frozen” It also won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Animated Feature, and Grammy Awards for Best Compilation Soundtrack and Best Song Written for Visual Media.
MAYFAIR WITCHES | LAArtsOnline.com
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of AMC AMC+ has launched the next series based on the best-selling novels by author Anne Rice. Mayfair Witches is an all-new supernatural drama adapted from Rice’s trilogy series Lives of the Mayfair Witches. It is the second television series based on Rice’s Immortal Universe following the eight-episode Interview with the Vampire. Rice’s books have sold over one hundred million copies in total.
MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE
By KENNE HOFFMAN Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Be still our beating hearts. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, the third installment of the series, hits theaters on February 10 followed by a streaming release on HBO Max. Channing Tatum, star of the Magic Mike franchise promises dancing like they’ve never been able to do in the previous two films. Tatum says it will be the Super Bowl of stripping. Plot specifics are as skimpy as the dancer’s costumes.
Infinity Pool | LAArtsOnline.com
By Kenne Hoffman Photo Courtesy of NEON Infinity Pool starring Alexander Skarsgård as James, a novelist, and Cleopatra Coleman portrays Em — a wealthy couple vacationing on a remote island resort. While enjoying the sun and fun, they are invited by Gabi (Mia Goth) on an excursion outside the resort.
Emily In Paris | LAArtsOnline.com
By Kenne Hoffman Photo Courtesy of Netflix The Paramount Network and MTV Entertainment Studios hit series Emily in Paris premiered in 2020 immediately landing on the Top 10 list of most watched streaming shows. In the UK, the show remained on the Top 10 list for 40 consecutive days following its debut. Emily in Pariswas nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Series and Best Actress for Lily Collins, and it received two Emmy Award nominations for Comedy Series and Production Design.
Shotgun Wedding | LAArtsOnline.com
By Kenne Hoffman Photo Courtesy of Prime Video Amazon Prime Video brings us Shotgun Wedding,starring America’s sweethearts Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel. Written by Mark Hammer and directed by Jason Moore, the film is more Lifetime Channel than the Hallmark-style rom-coms Lopez and Duhamel are known for. Shotgun Wedding is a cautionary tale about destination weddings. Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Duhamel) gather their families and friends for their dream wedding.
Stranger Things The Experience
By Kenne Hoffman Photo Courtesy of Netflix Be the hero of Hawkins in Netflix’s Stranger Things The Experience. Eleven, Mike, and the rest of the gang need your super-powers to fight the evil threatening to consume Hawkins. The gate to the upside down is open once again and it is up to you to help your group escape.
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