A raw and unparalleled DIY documentary about the West Coast Punk scene made by a group of young fans/filmmakers about the bands they loved.
‘Love & Mercy’ er den klassiske fortælling om den plagede skabersjæl. Beach Boys-frontmanden Brian Wilson var den kreative drivkraft bag popmesterværket Pet Sounds fra 1966, men kort efter pladens udgivelse tabte han kampen til sig selv og røg ud i et langvarigt stofmisbrug. I de sene 80’ere fik han dog has på misbruget og lancerede en solokarriere. Det er intet under, at Wilson får en biopic med ’Love & Mercy’, da historien om det musikalske geni har alle ingredienserne til et inspirerende larger than life-portræt: Den overvældende succes, den personlige deroute, det rørende comeback.
When Pete Carroll took over the football program at USC after the 2000 season, the once-great Trojans were under siege. But thanks to his football knowledge, upbeat personality and recruiting skills, Southern Cal was soon back atop the college football world as home attendance skyrocketed, Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush won Heismans and the Trojans put together a 34-game winning streak. As it would be later discovered, though, the program was committing sins that would result in lost scholarships, victories and one of those Heismans. But those revelations didn’t come until after the national championship game in the 2006 Rose Bowl between USC and the University of Texas. Featuring interviews with Carroll, Leinart and others inside the USC program at the time, “Trojan War” looks at Carroll’s nine-year USC reign through the prism of that game, considered one of the greatest in college football history. It was also the beginning of the end.
En rørende dokumentar, der ser tilbage på midten af 1960'erne, da Hollywoods Laurel Canyon var det kreative omdrejningspunkt for unge, nyskabende musikere.
In the 1970s, aimless teenager Greg Laurie searches for all the right things in all the wrong places until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie/street preacher. Together with local pastor Chuck Smith, they open the doors of a languishing church to an unexpected revival.
The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.
Entreprenørerne Ben, en god og fredelig buddhist, og hans bedste ven Chon, tidligere Navy SEAL og professionel soldat, driver en fremgangsrig virksomhed i den lukrative jordbrugsindustri – deres marijuana er noget af det bedste. tilfælles har de også kærligheden til den utroligt smukke Ophelia . Livet er idylliskt i deres lille landsby i det sydlige Californien – indtil det mexicanske Baja-kartel bestemmer sig for at flytte ind, og samtidigt kræver at trioen indgår et partnerskab med dem. Da den hensynsløse leder af Baja-kartellet, Elena, og hendes brutale højre hånd, Lado, undervurderer de ubrydelige bånd mellem de tre venner, tvinges Ben och Chon – sammen med en korrupt narkotikabetjent – til at indlede en tilsyneladende håbløs krig mod kartellet.
This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big Pines L.A. County Camp for some winter sports including sledding, skating, and ski jumping.
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
Set i den futuristiske landskab i Los Angeles den 4. juli 2008, da det står på randen af social, økonomisk og miljømæssig katastrofe. Boxer Santaros er en action-stjerne, der er ramt af hukommelsestab. Hans liv flettes med Krysta Now, en voksen filmstjerne udvikle sit eget reality tv-projekt, og Ronald Taverner, en Hermosa Beach politimand, som har nøglen til en enorm sammensværgelse.
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
Straight-arrow Barry has moved 3000 miles away from lackluster Ohio to attend college in sunny SoCal, and his friend Douglas has come along for the ride. Barry has his education on his mind; Douglas, the consummate mover-and-shaker, plans to make Barry a "Bar Star." Everyone knows the "Bar Star," the nightclub denizen that: like James Bond, he knows that every woman wants him, and every random guy wants to be just like him.
Beneath the Surface introduces readers to the story of the wealthy Kingsley family of Southern California. At the center of the action are the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire, who prove unprepared for a storm of deceptions and ruthless family ambition, while out on a weekend voyage.
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
A tour of the arid, inhospitable region of the southern California desert known as Death Valley, originally named because of the many travelers in the 1840s who died of thirst, starvation and/or exposure trying to cross it.
A carefree teen must defend his family's bubble tea shop from a real estate developer with a mysterious link to his past.