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Robert St. Martin

Robert St. Martin
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Robert aka Jim is a native Angelo, with a wide range of interests. He holds several academic degrees from Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Los Angeles, and UCLA, in English & Comparative Literature, History, and Education. He has been a teacher and university professor for many years and am still active in the academic community. Being an avid movie goer, he writes on film, including foreign-language cinema, feature films, documentaries, independent and experimental film. Having lived so long in Los Angeles, he is quite interested in the history of this particular city and appreciates its ethnic and racial diversity, as well as its fascinating history of filmmaking and popular music. As a world traveler, he has wandered into many fascinating corners of the globe and writes about his experiences.

BANDIT: An Indonesian Crime Thriller with a Human Heart

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Burbank, CA (The Hollywood Times) 8/4/26 - Featured at this year’s Burbank International Film Festival is an Indonesian crime thriller Bandit, directed by Brian...

I WANT YOUR SEX: Gregg Araki’s Wild Satire on Kinky Sex...

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Gregg Araki is one of the important directors of the New Queer Cinema movement that re-examined sexuality in the early 1990s with films like...

MASPALOMAS: Being 75 and Gay Is Not the End of Life...

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Older gay men are rarely given such visibility in the movies. A moving and upbeat exception is Maspalomas, a Spanish queer drama film directed...

MINESHAFT: The Cruising Murders – Making a Thriller Out of Gay...

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Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 7/28/26 - Jeffrey Schwartz’s Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders purports to be about the background to William Friedkin’s 1980...

Beneath the Ashes: The Past Reimagined – Documentary About Impact Eaton...

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The documentary Beneath the Ashes: The Past Reimagined will premiere at Dances With Films on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at the TCL Chinese 6...

BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT: Shahram Mokri’s Labyrinthine Iranian Tale About Film-Making

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Last Friday evening at the Billy Wilder Theatre of the UCLA Hammer Museum was a screening of a film from Iran – Black Rabbit,...

BETWEEN DREAMS AND HOPE: Seeking a Trans Identity in Iran Today

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One of the more interesting films in this year’s “Celebration of Iranian Cinema” at the UCLA Hammer in Westwood is Farnoosh Samadi’s Between Dreams...

THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY: An Iranian Allegorical Tale About the...

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Iranian filmmakers are gifted story-tellers and one recent example just screened at UCLA Hammer as part of the annual “Celebration of Iranian Cinema” which...

MORTICIAN: Iranians in Exile in Canada and Dealing with Iran’s...

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Last evening was the opening night of the 34th UCLA CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA (JUNE 5–21, 2026) – at the Billy Wilder Theater of the...

Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING: An Absurdist Tale About an Aged King...

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Currently on stage at A Noise Within Theater in Pasadena is a production of Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King,a darkly comic piece representative of...