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Action Star Alexander Nevsky Brings The East To The West with BIG Wins at Action On Film XIV

Russian Film Star and Action Legend Alexander Nevsky wins big at Action on Film 2018's MEGAFest over the weekend in Las Vegas....

Campus Circle Staff

Film Blog

Must see Hal Ashby Documentary coming to Los Angeles on September 14

Cinefiles, filmmakers and future filmmakers, a documentary on the late, great, director Hal Ashby is hitting screens in...

Sean Bello

Film Movie Reviews

New drama Puzzle has charm, but leaves more curiosity in its wake

One of the simple pleasures in film is a simply surprising opening scene. Whether it startles, stirs, or pivots you into rethinking...

Cooper Copeland

Film Promotion

Register to Win Tix to See "Eating Animals" in NY and L.A.

Campus Circle invites you to enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see "Eating Animals" this weekend in NY...

Film Movie Reviews

An art heist gone wrong is a film done right in American Animals

Caged or not, animals and humans alike are constantly looking for a way out. Whatever reality we are beholden to often becomes...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

The Seagull: a Chekhov play finds new life on screen

More than once during his short, yet astounding career, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov pledged to never write another play....

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

RBG is the superhero movie we didn't know we needed

For over two decades now, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg has served on the highest court in The United States, fighting for the rights of...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

The Rider star Brady Jandreau strides through his first film fearlessly

They sat me at a table with white linen tablecloth blowing in the warm Los Angeles breeze outside the Four Seasons Hotel...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

New doc The Giant Killer falls short of it's interesting subject

Whether or not you are a subscriber to all things Academy Awards, it’s hard to deny that the big show does well in its...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Dir. Max Winkler brings innocence to madness in Flower

The San Fernando Valley is a place drowning in sunshine. Bowling alleys still slick with last decade’s wax and pizza parlours...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

A Fantastic Woman: a hero worth rooting for, but a film that falls short

The image that so many journalists, bloggers, and critics have chosen to encapsulate A Fantastic Woman holds a lot of wonder....

Cooper Copeland

Film TV Time

Seven TV shows worth binge-watching this January

Football season is nearing its end. The weather has turned frightening with sub-freezing temperatures that skip layers of skin...

George M. Thomas

Film Blog

Watch Black Panther - From Page To Screen Video Featurette

Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” follows T’Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda,...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Blog

Bigscreen and Paramount Home Media Distribution announce debut of Top Gun in virtual reality

Bigscreen and Paramount Home Media Distribution announced today that Top Gun will be screened in 3D in Bigscreen’s...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Special Features

How 4DX Brought Me Back to Blockbuster Action Films

I must admit that my film viewing habits have changed over the years. As I’ve gotten older, I tend to shy away from...

Sean Bello

Film Movie Reviews

I, Tonya is the fun, tragic, and untold story of Tonya Harding we all need to hear

I was about four-years-old when a thug attempted to smash figure skater Nancy Kerrigan’s knee cap to pieces. I didn’t...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe, and Karen Croner on The Tribes of Palos Verdes

When you think of paradise, you probably conjure up images of sun, sand, and palm trees. Other ideals of happiness, like family...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Pixar's 'Coco' sings a high-spirited but sometimes faltering tune

Can a person honor his family and pursue his dreams? That is the question at the heart of “Coco,” a whimsical and...

Film Blog

Louis C.K. issues statement regarding sexual misconduct allegations.

Today, comedian Louis C.K. issue a written response to sexual misconduct allegations. Below is his statement in full."I...

Film Special Features

From ‘The Post’ to ‘Phantom Thread,’ critics discuss the movies to look for this holiday

Pull up a chair and take notes as The L.A. Times’ film critics, Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang, discuss the holiday movies...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Interviews

Liam Neeson and dir. Peter Landesman talk Mark Felt and the power of whistleblowers

While most truths of the Watergate scandal were uncovered in 1972, some were left shrouded in mystery and secrets. Perhaps most...

Cooper Copeland

Film Special Features

Fall Film Slate 2017: Serial Killers, Queens, and the Women Who Inspired Wonder Woman

Yep, summer’s on it’s way towards vacation, and that means we have a new and probably even more exciting movie season...

Cooper Copeland

Film Film Festivals

11th Annual German Currents Film Festival (Oct. 13 - 16)

GERMAN CURRENTS once again welcomes Angelenos to experience young, exciting & ground-breaking new cinema...

Campus Circle Staff

Film Movie Reviews

Powerful, yet not fully formed, Crown Heights is a hopeful take on a hopeless system

The story of Colin Warner is, unfortunately, not an uncommon one. A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, and...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Beach Rats and the loneliness of teenage sexuality

When you go out at night, do your parents know where you’re going? When you make plans with people other than your friends,...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Columbus is an impressive, yet incomplete first go for dir. Kogonada

I think its safe to say that most of us move through our daily lives without thinking about the actual spaces we’re moving...

Cooper Copeland

Film Interviews

Dave McCary and Kyle Mooney on the weird and wonderful world of Brigsby Bear

Whether you’re a person who likes to procrastinate by falling into some serious YouTube holes, or someone who’s never...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Lady Macbeth is a gorgeous and chilling tale of empowerment by lust and murder

She comes in quietly. She comes in obediently. She sits down where she is supposed to and eats when he eats. The men talk as...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

In Birthright: A War Story, the abortion debate isn't about abortion anymore

In the relatively short time that the United States has been around, ideological warfare has consistently tested the moral code...

Cooper Copeland

Film Movie Reviews

Citizens of the City of Ghosts fight back in powerful new doc

I’m writing this review from the comfort of a leather couch in an air-conditioned room in my West Hollywood apartment....

Cooper Copeland