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Cat Run

Cat Run is the latest theatrical release from actor-turned-director John Stockwell, and it feels vaguely familiar. It may find...

Nick Day

Film Interviews

Super

Writer-director James Gunn had an idea back in 2002 about a superhero with no superpowers. Years later, the character Crimson...

Ariel Paredes

Film Special Features

First Los Angeles Spaghetti Western Festival

On March 19 I attended the first (and not intended to be the last) Spaghetti Western Festival, a celebration and a tribute to...

Zach Hines

Film Movie Reviews

Insidious

The thing about a horror movie is that it either gets to you, or it does not. Insidious is one of those movies that gets to you...

Marvin Vasquez

Film Movie Reviews

Bill Cunningham New York

“See, a lot of people have taste, but they don’t have the daring to be creative,” says Bill Cunningham, New York Times Styles...

Dana Jeong

Film Special Features

Spring 2011 Movie Guide

After months of Oscar fodder and the barren wasteland of dreck that follows awards season, spring arrives in full bloom with...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Special Features

SXSW Film Fest Wrap-Up

The awards have been handed out, and the all-too-important celebrities have left the city to come home to Los Angeles. Another...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

White Irish Drinkers

One would think that in the autumn of 1975, the scant rumor that the Rolling Stones (“Ron Wood’s first tour as guitarist!”) would...

Christian Goss

Film Movie Reviews

Peep World

What do you remember about your last family meal? Was it stiff and awkward or loving with a flowing conversation about everyone’s...

Kristen Orola

Film Movie Reviews

Miral

Directed by renowned artist and two-time Oscar nominee Julian Schnabel, who previously helmed Basquiat, Before Night Falls and...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Sucker Punch

Director Zack Snyder is no stranger to epic films, putting together back-to-back successes with 300 and Watchmen. But with his...

John Stapletion IV

Film Movie Reviews

Winter in Wartime

There has rarely, if ever, been a time in my life when seeking out a Dutch WWII film on a Friday night sounded appealing. It’s...

Matthew Kitchen

Film Movie Reviews

We Are What We Are

What happens when the patriarch of a family of cannibals suddenly dies and leaves the remaining members to fend for themselves?...

Ariel Paredes

Film Projections

Sharon Stone Trifecta

The moment a film makes history, however small that history may be, is like catching a glimpse of a shooting star. Yes, that...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Win Win

The definition of “win” has recently come under much debate and so much controversy, the media can’t get enough...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

The Music Never Stopped

Music is an art form that all cultures form a connection with. It can make us feel good or bad, angry, naughty or simply nostalgic....

Matthew Kitchen

Film Movie Reviews

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Visual art makes a statement in many cases where the written and spoken word fails. In the case of Soviet Russia, where the wrong...

Natasha Desianto

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Desert Flower

Top model and actress Liya Kebede is absolutely brilliant in Desert Flower, which is based on the autobiography of Waris Dirie,...

Nicole Boisvert

Film Movie Reviews

Cracks

Prepare to be lured into a world of jealousy, obsession and erotic tension created by filmmaker Jordan Scott. Cracks is everything...

Film Interviews

The Lincoln Lawyer

Not everyone can brag about working with Matthew McConaughey. But for actress Erin Carufel, the journey has not been all glamour...

Eva Recinos

Film Interviews

Monogamy

It begins with interest, next comes love and then an exclusive relationship, marriage and finally a baby in a baby carriage....

Cindy Kyungah Lee

Film Interviews

T.V. Carpio

As T.V. Carpio waits yet again for “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Broadway’s most expensive and notorious...

Stephanie Forshee

Film Movie Reviews

The Human Resources Manager

Infused with dark humor and tender wit, The Human Resources Manager is a bittersweet, subversively funny film that was Israel’s...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Making the Boys

LGBT. Stonewall. Gay parades. Police raiding bars. What do these things have in common? Each year in the United States, there...

Cindy KyungAh Lee

Film Movie Reviews

I Am

Directed by Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty and Liar Liar), I Am is a whole new type of documentary. It is the kind...

Kristen Orola

Film Interviews

Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood is absconded from the Brothers Grimm and given a Twilight-ish overhaul in the new film, Red Riding Hood,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Jane Eyre

At the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Cary Fukunaga made a triumphant debut with his first feature, Sin Nombre, winning both the...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Elektra Luxx

In a film featuring multiple women with various complex issues written so true to life, it’s hard to believe their inner feelings...

Stephanie Forshee

Film Interviews

Battle: Los Angeles

After spending the last few years being inundated with countless movies trying to convey a message, Battle: Los Angeles offers...

John Stapletion IV

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Daniel Tosh

Daniel Tosh may be the only comedian able to toe the line of racism with a grace normally reserved for someone much less lanky....

Nicole Boisvert