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Disgrace

Based on the prize-winning novel of the same name, Disgrace is director Steve Jacob’s ambitious second film. Set in post-Apartheid...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

Coco Before Chanel

I’m beginning to realize that Audrey Tautou really can’t do anything wrong. Well, OK, maybe The Da Vinci Code was...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

The Blue Tooth Virgin

Life imitating art, imitating life, imitating art. Or something like that. The Blue Tooth Virgin, written and directed by Russell...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Tucker Max

He’s hit or miss. There’s no grey area when referring to the patron saint of vulgarity and controversy, Tucker Max. His infamous...

Richard Castañeda

Film Interviews

Bright Star

At the age of 25, the poet John Keats died, thinking himself a complete failure. But he was not an obsolete talent, as time would...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Love Happens

Molasses: This confection is slow moving and syrupy sweet. That was the first comparison that came to my mind during the drama,...

Ebony March

Film Special Features

Fall Movie Preview

Whether it’s the return of ’80s classics like Fame, an annual visit from the Saw series, a new installment of Twilight,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Paris

Cédric Klapisch explores the fragility of man in the face of his own mortality in Paris. Romain Duris is Pierre, a former...

Natasha Desianto

Film Movie Reviews

Crude

In case you haven’t been paying attention to the news lately, Chevron has been under the microscopic lens of the media...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Bright Star

It shouldn’t surprise you to know that Jane Campion’s latest directorial effort Bright Star is a quiet, subdued film....

E.S. Turrill

Film Movie Reviews

American Casino

We are kind of in a little thing called an economic crisis. Mom and dad are skipping date night every once in a while, we don’t...

Candice Winters

Film Projections

VANS Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Celebration

Fifteen years ago, Vans Warped Tour began as an extension of the skateboard expositions founder Kevin Lyman helped organize....

Sarah Bennett

Film TV Time

Jocko Sims

It’s funny how the world works. One minute you’re just a fan, distantly connected to the moving images of the people and events...

Candice Winters

Film Projections

Phantasm

Even though Halloween is still a month away, the Aero Theatre is spooking itself early with a full schedule of scary screenings...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

The Other Man

How well do we know the people we’re the most naked with? That is the haunting question at the center of Richard Eyre’s...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Hope Olaide Wilson

When you watch the touching performance of Hope Olaide Wilson in Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, it is easy to see...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

The September Issue

Oscar and Gaultier and Vuitton, oh my! For anyone who dreams in couture, lives for their stilettos and owns or can quote any...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Sandstorm

It was a movement you probably have never heard of. Lord knows, I hadn’t. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that was founded...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

No Impact Man

Ever wonder what would happen if you downsized and sacrificed, until you made no trash, consumed nothing new, emitted no air...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

Art & Copy

In 1970, the average American consumed approximately 1,000 advertisements every day. Since then, that number has gone up significantly....

Candice Winters

Film Interviews

9

Since 1999, Shane Acker has been fixated on a post-apocalyptic world inhabited only by stitchpunks (Acker’s term) and the...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Big Fan

What do you get when you mix the little chef from Ratatouille with the tormented, dark talent of the man who wrote The Wrestler?...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Sorority Row

Lately, it seems the slasher flicks that glorify blood, guts and organs are all that Hollywood wants to make. Completely gone...

Candice Winters

Film Interviews

Jennifer's Body

When you’re hot, you’re hot, and Megan Fox is a brand of caliente that Hollywood hasn’t seen since another Jolie fille, one whom...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Birthday Free For All

Everyone knows that you can get free stuff on your birthday. Restaurants will give you some form of dessert. Bars will give you...

Melissa Russell

Film TV Time

Matt Lanter

Actor Matt Lanter is on Hollywood’s radar with the recent confirmation of his role as the mysterious bad boy Liam Court in the...

Athalia Nakula

Film Projections

Sept. 6 @ The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is snuggled between the California Science Center and USC’s University Park Campus, but its walled-in...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Amreeka

One evening as I was heading out the door to a screening, I noticed that the Sundance Channel was running a promo about this...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Jonathan Chase

We all love a great story in Hollywood. After all, this is the place where dreams become reality, reality blurs into fantasy...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Extract

He is a master at comedy, a genius who will probably go down in history as the person who cleverly married socio-economics with...

Ebony March