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Rob Zombie has built an entire career out of his fascination with morbidity. After a decade-long run as frontman for White Zombie,...

James Famera

Film TV Time

Youth Knows No Pain

They are our fickle friends. They are the ones who take us to the bar, intoxicated with the prospect of good company and a splendid...

Candice Winters

Film Projections

Bicycle Fim Festival Los Angeles

Once a New York-based outlet for founder Brendt Barbur’s love of bikes while recovering from being hit by a bus, the Bicycle...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Motherland

Were it shaped differently, Motherland could have been a story of minor schadenfreude, or even cliché, in which those who’ve...

China Bialos

Film Movie Reviews

Five Minutes of Heaven

Reenacting a 1975 murder used to represent a small piece of the Catholic-Protestant conflict in Northern Ireland, Five Minutes...

China Bialos

Film Movie Reviews

Cloud 9

What is it about foreign films? I mean, really, most of them have ridiculous amounts of nudity and/or sex, and yet when they...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

The Baader Meinhof Complex

There has been a lot of moral debate over the glorification of violence in entertainment and in the media at large. When you...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee’s latest film about the accidents, desperation and missteps that led to the 1969 generation-defining...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Projections

Glitter/From Justin to Kelley

The American Cinematheque is known for screening the best in foreign and domestic classics at their two L.A. theaters. Last week,...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

World's Greatest Dad

Chocolate and peanut butter. Spaghetti and meatballs. Bobcat Goldthwait and profanity. Two great tastes that taste great together. After...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film TV Time

Making it Work

After a highly publicized legal battle between the show’s production company and its former network, “Project Runway”...

Yuri Shimoda

Film Movie Reviews

Beeswax

Expecting a timely, politically correct melodrama that uses bees as a metaphor for the circle of life, the state of familial...

Film Interviews

Post Grad

Picture this: A college graduate with big dreams of making it out on her own is hit with a cold, hard dose of reality when she...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

On the Set of Monster Mutt

It’s a dream come true: Two friends and longtime coworkers are producing their first big movie as director and producer....

Samantha Minton

Film Interviews

Inglourious Basterds

This former stand-up comedian got his first big break as one of Ashton Kutcher’s partners-in-crime on the MTV hidden camera show...

Frederick Mintchell

Film Movie Reviews

The Way We Get By

It’s the things we do everyday, our quirks and idiosyncratic tendencies that allow us to forget the imminent end of the...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Heart of Stone

There are two core relationships examined in Heart of Stone: in the present, there is the rivalry between central Newark’s...

China Bialos

Film Movie Reviews

Grace

Grace tells the story of Madeline (Jordan Ladd), a pregnant mother whose unborn child dies in an auto accident. She decides to...

Nick Day

Film Movie Reviews

Flame & Citron

It seems each year we’re flooded with more films about World War II, and surely they’re favorites at the Academy...

Natasha Desianto

Film Projections

Grammy Museum Music Film Festival

Although the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live is less than a year old, it is already an integral part of Downtown’s tourist offerings,...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

It Might Get Loud

At first glance, It Might Get Loud could be perceived as just three guys sitting around a room talking about the electric guitar....

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

District 9

District 9 is a thoroughly entertaining film, rich in visual detail and littered with the kinds of big ideas that are the hallmarks...

Nick Day

Film Movie Reviews

Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia is absolutely delightful! It is based on two true stories. One, about Julie Powell, a young woman living...

Ximena Herschberg

Film Movie Reviews

12 in a Box

Americans don’t tend to get British humor. And you know what, I totally understand. I mean, aside from Richard Curtis,...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

Funny People

He’s being called the next great American filmmaker, doing for dorky Jewish dudes what John Hughes did for disenfranchised...

Ebony March

Film TV Time

'Holidate'

The dating world is a scary and emotional one, wrought with miscommunication, uncertainty and … awkward situations. Trying...

Candice Winters

Film Projections

Pretty in Pink

Even though John Hughes movies are too overplayed to be considered cult flicks, Hollywood “Almost Free” Outdoor Cinema...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Cold Souls

Have you ever felt like your emotions are getting in your way, preventing you from achieving what you really want? Paul Giamatti...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

Fragments

The synopsis of Fragments – an act of random violence in a nondescript L.A. diner connects the survivors, as they find...

Lauren Barbato

Film Interviews

Bandslam's Alyson Michalka

Alyson Michalka, known to just about anyone under the age of 18 as Aly, Disney Channel star and one half of the sister act musical...

Sasha Perl-Raver