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Paper or Plastic?

Eight grocery-bagging state champions prepare for the national Best Bagger competition in Las Vegas. Watch as housewives, college...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

Wanted

Wanted’s filmmakers should advise people to watch at their own risk – particularly if they have a heart condition. Director Timur...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

The Unknown Woman

Director/writer Giuseppe Tornatore has a knack for leaving his audiences at the edge of their seats. His latest work, The Unknown...

Natasha Desianto

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Trumbo

If ever there was a screenwriter whose name roused feelings of both outrage and hope it is Dalton Trumbo. Here is a man who as...

James Famera

Film Movie Reviews

Tell No One

Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) still laments the “supposed” killing of his wife eight years ago. When he receives an e-mail...

Jessica Koslow

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Kicking It

An amazing concept, Kicking It chronicles the journeys of the players and teams on their respective roads to and participation...

Jessica Koslow

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Finding Amanda

An autobiographical tale from director Peter Tolan, creator of “Rescue Me,” Finding Amanda tells the story of Taylor Peters (Matthew...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Expired

Claire (Samantha Morton) and Jay (Jason Patric) are both meter maids (Are they still called that?) in Los Angeles. She is kind...

Jessica Koslow

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Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog ventures to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home...

Jessica Koslow

Film Interviews

WALL-E

“Irrational love defeats life’s programming. We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts and actually use them quite...

John Dusenberry

Film Interviews

American Teen's Jake

In anticipation of Paramount Vantage’s July 25 release of American Teen, Campus Circle asked each of the film’s five “teens”...

Jake Tusing

Film Projections

Cinespia

School is out, every day is beach-worthy and revival-screening series are moving operations outside. For Los Angeles’ classic...

Sarah Bennett

Film Special Features

Unique L.A. Movie Experiences

Angel City Drive In 240 W. 4th St., 2nd Floor, Los Angeles; www.angelcitydrivein.com Angel City Drive In is a bi-monthly movie...

Taren Fujimoto

Film Projections

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

This is a shout-out to the late Sydney Pollack. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a cinematic masterpiece. Set in the early 1930s,...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Never Forever

What happens when the line between love and sacrifice is blurred? This is the difficult question posed in Gina Kim’s brilliant...

James Famera

Film Interviews

Brick Lane

In her eyes is the grace of a woman twice her age. Her smile masks a legacy of suffering sadness. She has given up hope, yet...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

American Teen's Colin

In anticipation of Paramount Vantage’s July 25 release of American Teen, Campus Circle asked each of the film’s five “teens”...

Colin Clemens

Film Interviews

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

The Great Depression: an era of rampant house foreclosures, bankruptcy and hard times – a time that seems distant, yet strangely...

Danielle Charbonneau

Film Interviews

The Poker House

Her father was a minister who beat her mother and terrorized her and her two younger sisters. One day, fed up, her mother fled...

Jessica Koslow

Film Interviews

The Love Guru

What would happen if you combined Bollywood with Oprah on a hockey rink where a self-help guru goes head-to-head against Justin...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Projections

Los Angeles Film Festival

For the next 10 days, Hollywood moves west of Doheny – taking its star-studded premieres and exclusive movie screenings to Westwood...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Get Smart

It was a TV hit way back in the 1960s. Spy fare like the James Bond movies was all the rage. Not many moviegoers of today may...

Ebony March

Film Projections

Keep the Beet Alive

UCLA student-run independent record label Beet Music presents live music and DJs to promote their main live event, the Beet Records...

Film Movie Reviews

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

The Incredible Hulk arrives in theaters under intense scrutiny. Could it possibly be worse than the Ang Lee/Eric Bana debacle...

Sasha Perl-Raver

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Savage Grace

Based on the “real life is stranger than fiction” story of the Baekeland family, heirs to the Bakelite fortune, this elegant...

Frederick Mintchell

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Quid Pro Quo

The underlying concept of this film is fascinating. What happens when a person feels paralyzed, not physically, but emotionally,...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

The folks at Troma Entertainment have done it again with Poultrygeist! It would be easy to say this is a disgusting bloodbath...

Henry Senecal

Film Special Features

Sergio Leone

In the field of filmmaking, there are directors, filmmakers and artists. Directors are generic and are simply hired to bring...

Zach Hines

Film Interviews

American Teen's Megan

In anticipation of Paramount Vantage’s July 25 release of American Teen, Campus Circle asked each of the film’s five “teens”...

Megan Krizmanich

Film Projections

Cinevegas X

Anybody that has spent more than 48 hours in Sin City knows that the worst thing about the place is trying to find non Cirque...

Sarah Bennett