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The Dukes

Produced, written and directed by Robert Davi, The Dukes follows a famous ’60s Doo Wop group that’s fallen from the spotlight....

Farnaz Youshei

Film Special Features

Drop Dead Gorgeous

The world is obsessed with fashion. For decades, style rags have cluttered many a city girl’s studio apartment. “America’s Next...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

I Can't Think Straight

Leyla is a young, British Indian woman working to become a writer. Tala is a London-based, Palestinian woman on the verge of...

Henry Senecal

Film Projections

Nerdcore Rising

When the godfather of nerdcore, MC Frontalot, booked his first cross country tour – that ran from his native New Jersey and ending...

Sarah Bennett

Film Projections

Scott Thompson

In the basement of empiricism’s West Coast’s headquarters, the Steve Allen Theater remembers the ’50s “The Tonight Show” host...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Twilight

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb … and 17 million fans devoured every page. Twilight, the insanely successful series...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Milk

In the late 1970s, a man by the name of Harvey Milk took to the streets of San Francisco and sought to raise awareness within...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Most documentary films we’ve become used to nowadays offer more questions than answers and often leave us with a negative or...

Iván Villanueva

Film Movie Reviews

The First Basket

How did Jews affect basketball, or better yet, how did basketball change Judaism? The year was 1946; the game, the opening game...

Farnaz Youshei

Film Interviews

A Christmas Tale

If one is not yet familiar with the work of French director Arnaud Desplechin, his upcoming release, A Christmas Tale, displays...

Bonnie Priever

Film Interviews

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s brilliant new feature, based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q & A and adapted by The Full Monty ...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Quantum of Solace

Bond. James Bond. With one name you can almost hear the sound of panties dropping and guns being drawn. The Bond series is the...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

The world Unseen

In apartheid-era South Africa lines were drawn between black and white, male and female, what was expected and what was desired....

Henry Senecal

Film Movie Reviews

Stranded

In October of 1962, a rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay boarded a plane for Chile to play a much-anticipated match. Leaving...

Hayley Fox

Film Movie Reviews

Role Models

When a film has a “smell my finger” joke in the first 60 seconds, you kind of know what you’re in for. In the case of Role Models,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

With a star-studded cast which includes the voices of Ben Stiller, Sacha Baron Cohen and the late Bernie Mac, Madagascar: Escape...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Loins of Punjab Presents

What do a Bhangra rapper, a blue-eyed Jew and “Saddam Hussein” have in common? The first-ever Desi Idol, of course. Presented...

Farnaz Youshei

Film Movie Reviews

Dear Zachary

Dear Zachary follows the events that occurred after the murder of Dr. Andrew Bagby on Nov. 5, 2001, in Pennsylvania. Released...

Farnaz Youshei

Film Special Features

'Stolen Dreams' Short-Film Competition

AARP and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television forged an innovative collaboration this year in the hopes of creating...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Repo! The Genetic Opera tells the story of an epidemic of organ failures, where organ transplants are financed by GeneCo, a company...

Nick Day

Film Movie Reviews

The Boy In Striped Pajamas

Keeping with the popular trend of “book to movie” (i.e. The Secret Life of Bees, What Just Happened), comes a lesser-known historical...

Bonnie Priever

Film Interviews

Ballast

Ballast is a haunting and emotionally raw film that explores life in the Mississippi Delta. It tells the story of Marlee, a single...

Nick Day

Film Projections

Danny Boyle In-peron Double Feature

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a big television. Choose to watch a Trainspotting/Shallow Grave Ewan MacGregor-filled...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Soul Men

It’s impossible to talk about the new film Soul Men without recognizing with a pang of sadness that it’s one of the last films...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Flith and Wisdom

Madonna fans will flock to the theaters in anticipation of her directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom. The story involves three...

Bonnie Priever

Film Movie Reviews

Fear(s) of the Dark

What an absolutely wonderful film! This animated feature is composed of several different storylines by some of the world’s most...

Nick Day

Film Movie Reviews

Changeling

Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Angelina Jolie, Changeling follows Christine Collins (Jolie), a mother whose nine-year-old...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Able Danger

Able Danger, directed by Dave Herman and shot in film noir style, is as invested in its political message as it is in the artistry...

Paige Parker

Film Special Features

Obama Elected Top Movie Date By Texters

One week before the national polls open, tens of thousands of texting moviegoers have spoken! Senator Barack Obama beat out...

Film Interviews

Splinter

You’re trapped in a small, unfamiliar place with potentially dangerous strangers. Some unknown creature that’s so horrific you...

Henry Senecal