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Surf's Up

Fresh on the heels of the Oscar-winning Happy Feet comes Surf’s Up, Sony Pictures Animation’s entry into the newly minted “computerized...

Pico Jones

Film Movie Reviews

Crazy Love

Filmmaker Dan Klores (Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story) casts a jaundiced eye on romance and obsession in his new documentary,...

Mike Buzzelli

Film Interviews

La Vie En Rose

My first experience with Edith Piaf came in the middle of the night at a donut shop, where I was informed that I apparently resembled...

Hayley Fox

Film Special Features

Celebration IV

I pull into the parking garage of the L.A. Convention Center, and there it is. I haven’t been here five seconds, and on the back...

Pico Jones

Film Interviews

Eli Roth

Success does not weaken Eli Roth. “It’s very different being under the microscope. The first two movies were under the radar...

James Famera

Film Movie Reviews

The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

More, please! More action, more romance, more bad guys and a lot more CGI. It’s heaping seconds and thirds of everything for...

Hayley Fox

Film Projections

Arclight Cinema's Unique "21+" Screenings

When I attended college in Rhode Island, there was a movie theater called Cable Car Cinema & Café on Main Street that housed...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

At World’s End has it all: betrayal, double crosses, shifting and shaky alliances, heartbreak, love, marriage, murder, comedy,...

Frederick Mintchell

Film Movie Reviews

Knocked Up

What sets writer/director Judd Apatow’s flicks apart from their bawdy cousins is that they are always intelligent, never slapstick...

Richard D. Lewis

Film Movie Reviews

The Devil Came on Horseback

Brian Steidle didn’t want an office job. After four years serving in the Marine Corps, the idea of sitting at a cramped desk...

Rayhané S. Sanders

Film Interviews

The Roach

Blood gushing from a bullet wound, the canine-sized cockroach begs its human caretaker to put it out of his misery. The caretaker’s...

Hank Friedmann

Film Interviews

Carly Schroeder

When I think of the average 15-year old girl, my kid sister, Camille, springs to mind. For fun, she sits around the house, talking...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Kevin Costner and Dane Cook

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can and wisdom to know...

James Dusenberry

Film Projections

Last Remaining Seats

For a city that reportedly has little history to call its own, Los Angeles rewards the intrepid urban explorer with unique and...

Angela Matano

Film Movie Reviews

Bug

Ashley Judd has always been one of those actresses that people seem to underestimate. Never mind that she has had a string of...

Norman Mayers

Film Interviews

Severance

“I'm going to go home and kill me some yuppies,” is what writer James Moran told writer/director Christopher Smith one night...

James Dusenberry

Film Interviews

Paprika

For years, literature has been brought to life by the movies. Books are constantly made into films. Recently, the tide has shifted...

David Tobin

Film Interviews

John Carney

It was doomed from the start. Irish writer/director John Carney's third film, titled Once , that is. Carney had a budget of...

Rayhané S. Sanders

Film Interviews

Rie Rasmussen

Rule No. 1 for entertainment journalists is much the same as it is for priests and CIA operatives; never fall in love. But while...

Sam Roudman

Film Projections

Summer Filmfest Breakdown

UCLA SHORTTAKES May 24 @ UCLA UCLA will jumpstart the season with its own short film festival, Shorttakes. Shorttakes is a...

Michael Buzzelli

Film Special Features

Don't Miss Any of These

Do you feel it? The slow-drip burnout, the seeming increase in gravity force lowering you down to the cool grass below, the heavy...

Rayhané S. Sanders

Film Movie Reviews

Paris, Je T'Aime

What do Natalie Portman, an extra-marital affair, two vampires, a clumsy Muslim girl, Gena Rowlands, a portly mime, Maggie Gyllenhaal...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Salon

In Salon , Jenny (a vivacious Vivica A. Fox, Kill Bill Vol. 1 ), is clinging to her run-down beauty shop as Baltimore's Department...

Michael Buzzelli

Film Movie Reviews

Hollywood Dreams

I'm not sure what the actual numbers are, but I'm sure the number of people coming out to L.A. to snag their piece of the Hollywood...

Mary Montoro

Film Movie Reviews

Georgia Rule

I know you won't believe me when I tell you that Lindsay Lohan likes to throw tantrums. You'll also never believe me when I say...

Hayley Fox

Film Movie Reviews

Even Money

“Never risk what you can't afford to lose,” a key quote from Even Money aptly describes the compelling drama that follows the...

Samantha Ofole-Prince

Film Interviews

Andrew & Luke Wilson

In The Wendell Baker Story , Luke, Owen and Andrew Wilson join forces to bring the world a little slice of Texas. Written by...

Film Interviews

Parker Posey

While sitting across the table from writer/director Hal Hartley and actress Parker Posey at a recent press junket, it's easy...

Christina Morgan

Film Movie Reviews

Salon

In Salon , Jenny (a vivacious Vivica A. Fox, Kill Bill Vol. 1 ), is clinging to her run-down beauty shop as Baltimore's Department...

Michael Buzzelli

Film Projections

Last Days of Left Eye

She was the Crazy component in CrazySexyCool . She was the one who promoted safe sex by placing a condom over her left eye. Say...

Mary Montoro