In 2001, the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys memorialized the ratty, revolutionary surfing and skateboarding from the infamous Zephyr team out of Venice Beach, California. Guys like Jay Adams, Tony ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta's skateboarding documentary lit up Sundance, going on to earn an Audience Award in Park City. By Duane Bygre On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary ...
In the lively documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002), former skateboarding star Stacy Peralta told the story of the Zephyr Skate Team, the crew of shaggy southern California teenagers with whom he ...
Lords of Dogtown is an odd, disorienting commodity — a fictional version of a documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys) about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s Venice, California, that was written by the man ...
The summer of 2009 was the first time I watched Lords of Dogtown. Released in 2005, the biographical drama film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Stacy Peralta, tells the story of the ...
Without a decaying coastal resort area called Dogtown, a pack of rebel rollers known as the Z-Boys, and a 1970s drought that left California swimming pools bone dry, who knows where modern ...
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams ...
Where the debris meets the sea, that’s the tight scope on Dogtown and Z-Boys. It’s a wild ride with eight boarders from Venice Beach, Calif., that was a deserved co-winner of the Audience Award for ...