of old

In a concierge practice, physicians can act more like the family doctors of old—finding specialists, following up with other physicians, even seeing a patient in the hospital and advocating for them.

It’s bisected by La Cienega Boulevard, a thoroughfare that carries six lanes of high-speed traffic through the gritty landscape of the oil field, which feels like a relic of old L.A.

At times, the film is as hokey as they come, a ramshackle project built on half-spun ideas, baffling performance choices, a scatterbrained script and a barrel of old wigs purchased from a defunct cosmetology school’s liquidation sale.

As we wander back across the square and into the maze of old town streets, the festival is in full swing.

The fantasy series follows an elven mage, her young human apprentice and others they pick up along their years-long journey to visit the spirits of old friends.