Mark Olsen
Film Writer at Los Angeles Times
I write about movies, all kinds, for the Los Angeles Times + a weekly newsletter on the world of cinema in L.A. and beyond.
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latimes.com | Mark Olsen
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Hollywood was shocked last weekend with the announcement by President Trump of a plan to impose a new 100% tariff on films produced outside the United States. The exact logistics of the plan were unclear; determining which projects would be subject to the tariff would itself be extremely complicated.
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yahoo.com | Mark Olsen
Throughout its career in the 1990s, the band Pavement remained poised for a wider commercial success that it never quite found. As leaders of the lo-fi indie rock sound, the musicians remained something of a secret passed among fans, their air of willful inscrutability, ambivalence toward conventional success and general irreverence inspiring a dedicated faithful that has only grown over the years.
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latimes.com | Mark Olsen
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Tim Grierson paid a visit to the Criterion Mobile Closet last weekend, as the cinephile totem made its first ever stop in Los Angeles, parked in front of Vidiots. Fans began lining up at 5 a.m. and the line was cut off at 9:30 a.m., before things had even opened. Folks waited in the rain for hours, with the closet staying open an extra hour to accommodate everyone.
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dvidshub.net | Mark Olsen
12 U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brittany Fralick, a production recruiter with the 108th Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, was named as one of the Air Force’s top 13 recruiters at the Air Force Recruiting Service’s annual Operation Blue Suit ceremony in New Braunfels, Texas, March 27, 2025. “It feels incredibly humbling and rewarding to be recognized and be able to represent the New Jersey Air National Guard,” said Fralick.
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dvidshub.net | Mark Olsen
12 U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brittany Fralick, a production recruiter with the 108th Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, center, is presented the Operation Blue Suit Award by Brig. Gen. Christopher R. Amrhein, Air Force Accessions Center and Air Force Recruiting Service commander, left, and Chief Master Sergeant. Rebecca A. C.
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