Friday, August 15, 2025

TIFF In Tough Trouble

Not happy to hear this, the Toronto International Film Festival or TIFF is in trouble after dropping a film, then bringing it back. Just a reminder TIFF is not related to the Fantasia Film Festival also held in Canada and much cooler. So, TIFF took out the Israel Oct. 7 documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue. It shares the story of a man out to save his family, including his two granddaughters after the Oct 7 attack on Israel. That man is Retired Israel Defense Forces General Noam Tibon whose story was originally covered by 60 Minutes. 
 
TIFF gave some very lame excuses on why it was pulled and then immediately brought it back. But, it doesn't end there, as now over 1,000 people in the entertainment industry signed an open letter criticizing the festival for it's lack of fairness and what many equate to fear and antisemitism. 
 
You can read more about it here 
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Horror Hype: Need Shirts, Release Barbarian! & Night Fright LA Film Festival

Director Zach Cregger is sporting a special Weapons shirt that seems to not be available to the general public. Also not available, his debut feature Barbarian on physical home video. The director himself has tried to get 20th Century to release it in some way, but so far it's a no go. Odd, because it's another way to make money and there's plenty of publishers that would team up and do the dirty work for 20th Century when it comes to having physical discs made.

The artist known as Creepy Duck Design once again shares and possibly tricks some people into what such a release might look like.

Fright Rags has some very nice looking Are You Afraid of the Dark? shirts up for pre-order? They even come with a flashlight if you order early enough. So, if you need a reminder of your childhood nightmares brought to you by Canadian actors, look no further.

There's a new horror film festival in town and it's not even in October!

Sep 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Los Angeles, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
$tarts at $21.99 

 From their site:

"More than just a screening event, Night Frights is a full-throttle experience — with red carpet premieres, Q&A panels with directors and cast, horror-themed parties, and interactive installations that immerse audiences into the darkest corners of the genre. Whether you're a die-hard horror fan or an emerging filmmaker, Night Frights LA is where the shadows come alive, the screams are real, and the future of fear is unleashed."


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Thursday, August 14, 2025

End August Right: Severin Films Supershock 2025, Lucha VaVoom's last show at The Mayan & Evangelion Wind Symphony

We've got a heaping helping of events ending the month. From strange features from Severin to weird wrestling one last time at The Mayan and Evangelion references still being popular, you've got plenty to do at the end of August.
 
Saturday, August 23rd
Doors: 3pm. Showtime: 4pm
611 N Fairfax Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036 
$36.50 
 
Mystery Feature Screenings of 3 Unreleased New Titles on the Big Screen!
Plus! A Silent Short with live accompaniment, Sneak Preview Trailers & Promos, Free Swag, Merch Table, and More!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Good, the Bad, and the Fabulous
Friday, August 22nd 
The Mayan Theatre (1038 S Hill St.)
 $69.00 
 21+
 
Lucha VaVoom de La Liz (LVVDLL)—the perfect combination of world-class, professional lucha libre-style wrestling interspersed with insane, high-octane burlesque performances, death-defying aerial acts, comedy, music, and more—is returning with their annual summer spectacular show.
 
Last month, LVVDLL’s beloved home venue The Mayan Theatre, a pioneer of downtown Los Angeles’ revitalization and a beloved cultural landmark that has served as a cornerstone of entertainment and community in DTLA for nearly a century, announced it will be closing its doors in September. The closure marks the end of an era, so LVVDLL is promising one last blowout in celebration of the venue they’ve called home for 23 years, before they find a new home to host their annual Halloween engagement.
 
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA
$65.75 and up 
 
Experience the World of EVANGELION with the Power of Live Music
For the First Time Ever in North America – A Spectacular Wind Orchestra Concert Featuring Yoko Takahashi!
In 2025, as the EVANGELION series marks its 30th anniversary, the highly acclaimed Evangelion Wind Symphony from Japan will make its long-awaited North American debut with exclusive performances in three cities—Toronto (Canada), Irving (Texas), and Los Angeles (California)—this August!
 
Yoko Takahashi, the legendary voice behind A Cruel Angel’s Thesis, will join the tour for a special performance to select parts of the program.
 
Adding to this special edition, newly arranged wind orchestra pieces from Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time will be performed live for the first time, alongside beloved classics from the original TV series and Rebuild of Evangelion films. As the EVANGELION franchise continues to resonate with fans around the world, this milestone 30th-anniversary event promises an unforgettable musical tribute.
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Little Big on 11.13 in Los Angeles - The Original Skibidi Tour

 

Didn't know that Little Big left mother Russia because it was getting bad with how it was dealing with Ukraine. Now the moved to America and everything is "sigh" much better here? Any-hoo, this absurdist band has been making crazy music vids and is the actual creator of the Skibidi song, made popular by talking toilets. They'll be on tour starting Oct 22nd, but will be playing LA on Nov 13th as part of the Los Angeles - The Original Skibidi Tour.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Weekly What To Do: I'll Take Some Godzilla With Some Stationery, Please

 
August 9–17
Little Tokyo
 
Perhaps it needs to be changed to Nisei weeks as it really lasts that long. This Little Tokyo festival is a great way to end the Summer. Very much as what you might have seen in anime and manga it's a celebration in the vein of Japanese culture. This first weekend you get the annual parade to enjoy and next weekend is the annual festival, the Plaza Festival. There's other events throughout the weeks that might catch your eye, but those two are the biggest and the most fun.
 
*It's gonna be a little weird without Kinokuniya which hopefully opens up back soon in a new location in Little Tokyo.
 
The family-friendly event features food, games, booths, and live entertainment at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) plaza!

Date/Time: August 16 & 17, 11 am-4 pm

    Saturday, August 16 – Live entertainment
    Sunday, August 17 – The Nisei Week Taiko Gathering

Location: JACCC plaza
 
Saturday, Aug 16, 2025
Japanese American National Museum
Democracy Center
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
FREE

Celebrate summer with us at JANM’s Democracy Center and the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!
 
Ondo Public Street Dancing & Closing Ceremony
 
The public is invited to Nisei Week’s finale, the Japanese tradition of dancing in the street with live entertainment, to close out the festival on August 17, beginning at 4 p.m.

Street Closures: 1st Street between San Pedro St. and Central Ave., beginning at 11:30 AM.
 
 

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle x Dodgers Night
Friday, August 15 at 7:10 PM at Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium
$ 
 
Looks like if you get there early enough you'll snag a Demon Slayer x Dodgers hat. A nice promotion of the upcoming film that'll be in theaters in the states this September.
 
Here's more info from the press release:
 
 LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers will create a stadium-wide giveaway of co-branded hats celebrating the highly popular Japanese anime film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, for the Friday, August 15 game at 7:10 p.m. between the Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

The event will be supported by pregame and in-game promotion, an activation in the Centerfield Plaza and a ceremonial first pitch. Festivities for the night will be followed by a themed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle drone show.
 
 

August 15-17, 2025
Long Beach Convention Center
$ 
 
"Shop from 350 spooky vendors; see previews of upcoming Halloween events and attractions; panels, presentations, and performances from leading horror performers and entertainment companies; and explore over a dozen haunted attractions in the massive Hall of Shadows."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PPP Pop-Up Event 8/16-17 at Albion Garden
1043 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
 
Your favorite stationery festival is back, this time as a pop-up event! Join us for a delightful day filled with all things stationery in a comfortable and less crowded environment.

Event Details
2 lineups of 10 vendors: 0 vendors each day, 2 unique lineups — double the creativity, double the fun!Timed Entry: Enjoy a more relaxed experience with timed entry tickets.
In-Out Privilege: Once you check in, you can come and go throughout the day.
 
 
Saturday, August 16th at Giant Robot 2 
12pm to 6pm at 2062 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025

This one day event will feature independent artists and illustrators offering original artwork, prints, zines, pins, and more.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Summer Concerts: Past + Future = Present, Pt. 1
Saturday, Aug 16, 2025
8 pm—11 pm
The Broad
Tickets $25 
 
Experience the special exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me after hours and groove to the beat between two performance stages on two levels of the museum. With musicians selected to compliment Gibson’s vibrant artworks and converse with his powerful themes, PAST + FUTURE = PRESENT, Pt. 1 features Snotty Nose Rez Kids, the raucous and upbeat Haisla hip hop duo, and Black Belt Eagle Scout, the introspective and cinematic Swinomish/Iñupiaq indie rocker, both on the lobby stage. 
 
On Sunday, August 17; between 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. CicLAvia will celebrate its 61st car-free open streets event catalyzing vibrant public spaces, active transportation and good health through car-free streets. CicLAvia—Culver City meets Venice connects Culver City, Mar Vista, and Venice, welcoming everyone of all ages and abilities to enjoy this day-long 6.75-mile pop-up park. Always free, you can enjoy the day by walking, jogging, biking, skating, or simply spectating at CicLAvia. Participants can show up anywhere along the route between 9am-4pm to enjoy the open streets, take the time to explore, and see where the day takes you.
 
Light Gauge Workshop: Cook with the Sun
Sunday, August 17 | 12 - 2:30 pm
M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard
5814 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Free 
 
Join us for a lunchtime workshop on solar cooking! Led by Jacqueline Falcone, curator and early childhood educator, this kids-friendly activity guides participants in producing DIY ovens that harness solar light and amplify energy. Under Light Gauge, which provides a clean-energy resource to the courtyard, this solar cooking activity explores another scale of solar power through accessible materials and means that may be replicated to heat all kinds of foods. During this workshop, s’mores will be on the menu! 
 
 
 
The Soda-Powered Car Wash will take place from 9am – 6pm PST on 8/18 at 431 North La Cienega Blvd in West Hollywood, CA
 
Evolution Fresh is coming for Big Soda in a powerful way and shedding light on the eye-opening ingredients that the artificial, sugary beverages contain by teaming up with long-time brandnfan and fellow fruit lover Bretman Rock to bring LA residents free, soda-powered car washes.  
*if you bring a can of traditional soda to trade in you'll get a goodie

 
 
Summer concerts 2025 
Tuesday Aug 19, 2025 6:30 PM
Part of the series Hammer Summer Concerts 2025
Open Mike Eagle with Jordan Patterson and J.Rocc

See live concerts in the Hammer’s courtyard for free! Enjoy happy hour, late gallery hours, art-making, and more. 
 
 Special Screenings:
 
 
Tickets are on sale now, and a new trailer was released ahead of Academy Award®-winning producer and distributor GKIDS’ rerelease of SHIN GODZILLA. The film comes to theaters nationwide, as well as select 4DX and D-BOX screens August 14 in its original Japanese language with subtitles, including restored text cards and a 4K remaster that has never before been released in North America. The 2016 feature is directed by Hideaki Anno (NEON GENESIS EVANGELION Franchise, LOVE & POP) and co-directed by Shinji Higuchi (BULLET TRAIN EXPLOSION, SHIN ULTRAMAN) with screenplay by Anno and visual effects by Higuchi.
 
@ CGV Cinemas
 
Lee Jeong-hwan, a fierce animal trainer, lives a chaotic daily life with his rebellious teenage daughter, Lee Su-ah, who is full of passion for dancing. One day, Su-ah becomes infected by a zombie virus that has swept across the globe.
 

Boys Go to Jupiter director Julian Glander and actor Jack Corbett will participate in Q&A's at the Laemmle Glendale following the 7:30 P.M. screenings August 15-17. Actor Demi Adejuyigbe will join them on the 15th. Atsuko Okatsuka will moderate on 8/16 and Mitra Jouhari on 8/17.
 
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji (LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM) will appear in person at Landmark's Nuart Theatre on Friday and Saturday, August 15 and 16 for Q&As after the 7:30pm shows. Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait
 
611 N Fairfax Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036
$19.50

Ride or Cry and Brain Dead Studios present a special one night screening of Mandy, followed by a live Q&A with Daniel Noah (producer of Mandy, co-founder of SpectreVision) with special guest moderator Austin Feinstein (Slow Hollows).
 
 
"The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year. The shower is active from mid-July until late August and will peak on the night of Aug. 12, before dawn on Aug. 13, 2025.

Viewers should start observing around 11 p.m. local time when the rates of shooting stars increase and can watch the sky until dawn. Unfortunately, the peak occurs just three days after a full moon, so moonlight may wash out fainter meteors."

Further Out: 
 
AREA 29: Galactic Gathering returns to Twentynine Palms from August 14–17, and it’s bigger, weirder, and more out-of-this-world than ever.
 

 
 Extra:
 
Free Hours at the Autry
Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.
Update: During this Wildfire season, The Autry closes off, please check day of event

Let the Autry cover your next visit with Free Hours at the Autry. Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m. will be free to all Autry visitors. Enjoy access to all the Autry's exhibitions including Imagined Wests, Reclaiming El Camino and more by reserving your spot today!
 

Thanks to the generous support of the Autry Foundation, Free Hours at the Autry* are every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.
 
UCB, a cheapo comedy show almost every night, see comedians before they make podcasts and have
stories about the UCB and before they hit the big time.
 

American Cinematheque-A celebrated independent theater group that brings both the talent and catalog of films to make for some of LA's best movie nights.
 

Street Food Cinema-Outdoor cult or recent hits you'll love.

Check out classics and cult movies just a few stories above street level. Rooftop Movies at The Montalbán.


 New Bev-Tarantino owned independent theater with old school style
 
Brain Dead Studios-manages to fill its schedule almost every night
611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
 
Vidiots -A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema. A small theater is more than made-up for with the constant content and special screenings.
4884 Eagle Rock Blvd
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Game Hype: So Many Ninjas: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound & Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Cookie Haus & Legends of Trivia In Jackbox 11 & More

We've got two major pixel perfect Ninja games with wonderfully revenge-filled names: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound out now and on all major platforms and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance coming out Aug 29th on all major platforms. Both look amazing, have great sounding soundtracks and I assume were made out of spite of the other one as they're coming out so close together.



 
Big Walk, looks fun, but it's been pushed to 2026.

Jackbox Party Pack 11, out this October, has a new drawing game and it's so sweet, it's Cookie Haus! You'll be decorating messed-up made cookies for this one.

Legends of Trivia is our new fantasy and fun looking game in the pack.

 

Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion is out now and looks like a shooter from Newgrounds.

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Monday, August 11, 2025

Hype: Gen V Back Sept 17th & Elvira's Cookbook from Hell

Things aren't going too well in The Boys and for the kids in Gen V. Let's catch up with a lot of bloodshed this September.

Out Sept 30th

 

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