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I Hate Valentine’s Day

Nia Vardalos created a sleeper hit in 2002, when she wrote and starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Now she’s back –...

Ebony March

An Unlikely Weapon

Best known for Saigon Execution, his Pulitzer prize-winning 1968 photograph of Saigon police chief General Loan shooting a Vietcong...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love

Senegalese pop icon Youssou N’Dour had a vision. Inspired by the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, whom he grew up listening...

Natasha Desianto

Film Movie Reviews

Betty Blue: The Director’s Cut

It’s been more than 20 years since Jean-Jacques Beineix directed Betty Blue, but now the director’s cut of this sex-filled...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

Blood: The Last Vampire

Blood: The Last Vampire is a live-action film based on a 2001 anime of the same name. The storyline involves a half-human, half-vampire...

Nick Day

Film TV Time

'No Reservations'

In an age where celebrity chefs like Bobby Flay and Paula Deen have charmed their ways into the hearts America, and culinary...

Yuri Shimoda

Film Projections

Cinefamily 4th of July BBQ (feat. Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Celebration)

Even though Michael Jackson is gone, and the world is preparing for new economic superpowers, our sweet land of liberty is still...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Soul Power

Soul Power isn’t a documentary so much as it is a document. Director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte was originally hired as an editor...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

The Girl From Monaco

Ah, Monaco. With its mild Mediterranean weather, soothing sandy beaches and proximity to Italy and France, what’s not to...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

The Beaches of Agnès

Called the “Grandmother of the French New Wave,” Agnès Varda is well known for the innovations she has brought...

Natasha Desianto

Film Interviews

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The battle for Earth has begun … again. But this time, the screenwriters have spanned the entire Transformer series to...

David Tobin

Film Interviews

The Ross Report

He’s the cute, fresh-faced heartthrob who wowed audiences in the movie ATL and soared to media limelight as a troubled...

Samantha Ofole

Film Projections

Suburbia

Penelope Spheeris is one hell of a woman. After growing up traveling the country with her Greek immigrant father’s circus,...

Film TV Time

Don't Watch With Your Parents In the Room

Looking back at the long history of film that began over a hundred years ago, the Internet is still very new. It may seem as...

Bryan Baca

Film Interviews

Under Our Skin

With swine flu a hot item in the news these days, that an epidemic much bigger than swine flu and possibly bigger than AIDS has...

Natasha Desianto

Film Interviews

Surveillance

Few people have heard about the small town of Regina in the Saskatchewan region of Canada, including Surveillance director Jennifer...

Melissa Russell

Film Interviews

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M., based on French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam’s 1994 novel of the same name, is the devastating...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Still Green

The state of independent film may be on life support, but producer Doug Lloyd is anything but worried. “I still believe...

James Famera

Film Special Features

Dance Camera West Dance Film Festival

The genre of dance art film has long sought a proper home. In the past, dance films of the non-Hollywood variety were awkwardly...

Dov Rudnick

Film Movie Reviews

Sex Positive

AIDS is making an alarming comeback. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that HIV infection among gay men...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

The End of the Line

In this day and age, we are the kids who treat the earth with respect. We recycle, conserve energy and plant trees. We are the...

Candice Winters

Film TV Time

Awaiting Conan's Failure

It goes without saying that Americans love watching celebrities fail. We observe in blissful shock when Michael Richards goes...

James Famera

Film Projections

Los Angeles Film Festival

Starting tomorrow, and for the next 10 days after, the Los Angeles Film Festival turns UCLA’s Westwood Village into the...

Sarah Bennett

Film Special Features

UCLA's Screen Stars

USC may have its “Mafia,” but UCLA has got its share of notable alumni (or almost-alumni) in the biz. Check out some...

Melissa Russell

Film Special Features

The Greatest Seafaring Movies of All Time

Pretend for a moment that we are out on the fantail after the chief cook has turned out an especially good meal. Under fair skies,...

Rafael Alvarez

Film Interviews

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is very adamant about not having a movie career. “I am for sure a has-been,” the five-time...

Lauren Barbato

Film Interviews

$9.99

The film $9.99 is a thoughtful exploration of the weighty concepts behind the meaning of life. Based on the short stories by...

Nick Day

Film Interviews

Whatever Works

Woody Allen has returned to his roots, both geographic and creative, with Whatever Works. After a four-film dalliance in Europe,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Irene in Time's Tanna Frederick

Droves of aspiring actors descend on Hollywood daily, desperately yearning to see their name in lights, their handprints in cement,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Projections

Jules Verne Festival

Tony Curtis is the last of the Golden Age dreamboats, and after growing up a poor Jewish boy in the Bronx, appearing in more...

Sarah Bennett