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Stomp the Yard

Stomp the Yard opens with a furious and dizzying competition between rival dance outfits. Like a hip-hop version of the Jets...

John Monaghan

Film Interviews

Kumar Goes to the A-List

It was only a matter of time before the writers/directors of Date Movie set their sights a bit higher and decided to spoof the...

Heather Turk

Film Projections

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Every movie lover around the world got a little bit of joy in their holiday stocking recently courtesy of George Lucas and Steven...

John Barundia

Film Movie Reviews

Alpha Dog

It takes a few minutes to figure out we're in crime thriller territory. The front line characters in the weird, edgy, chaotically...

Colin Covert

Film Interviews

Sophia Bush and Sean Bean Thrill in

The variety of movies that Hollywood produces in its yearly lifecycle is something akin to the biodiversity of our dwindling...

Sam Roudman

Film Special Features

American Idol

It's "Idol" time again! How much do you know about the show's former contestants. Download the special feature and test your...

Film Projections

Marry Poppins Sing-A-Long

If you've ever wandered around the house, with a miserable cold, quietly chanting about how “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Edward Norton & Naomi Watts

“Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life,” poet Percy Shelley writes. It is 1925, and British doctor Walter...

Joe Horton

Film Interviews

Brittany Murphy

Director Karen Moncrieff's upcoming feature The Dead Girl is going to scare the hell out of you. Set in the boonies, the story...

Chris Pryor

Film Interviews

Lucy Liu & Nicollette Sheridan

Code Name: The Cleaner follows Jake (Cedric the Entertainer), who wakes up in a daze in a swanky hotel, holding a briefcase filled...

Chris Pryor

Film Special Features

Most Valuable Players

It takes more than an exceptional physique to deliver a realistic performance in a sports film; it requires great acting skill....

Chris Gore

Film Special Features

Movie Theaters in L.A.

Here in Los Angeles, movie going is not just a habit, but a religion. But today's movie theaters are facing perhaps their greatest...

Chris Gore

Film Special Features

Holiday Film Guide

It's hard to talk to your family for the entire duration of the holidays, and it's just not possible to be eating the entire...

Sam Roudman

Film Movie Reviews

The Ultimate Top 10

Football is America's greatest sport. The epic spectacle that takes place over four quarters contains more athleticism, passion...

Chris Gore

Film Special Features

Docmentaries

When more than 200 self-recruited “ Star Wars ” Stormtroopers march in the Rose Bowl parade on New Year's Day behind creator...

Tish Wells

Film Interviews

Milo Ventimiglia

The Rocky saga has become such a deeply embedded part of American pop culture zietgeist and national conscience that it's hard...

Chris Pryor

Film Movie Reviews

Children of Men

An 18-year-old boy is killed in Mexico. At the same time, a baby is soon to be born in London. In the year 2027, these two seemingly...

Rahwa Asmerom

Film Projections

Glide-In Movies

New York City has Rockefeller Center. In Southern California, L.A. natives lay claim to Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Gong Li

Curse of the Golden Flower , directed by Zhang Yimou ( Hero , House of Flying Daggers ), takes place over 1,000 years in the...

Chris Pryor

Film Interviews

Screamers

Genocide is one of those things that is difficult for us to wrap our heads around. We can conceive of mass slaughter and rightly...

Sam Roudman

Film Projections

Painted Veil

Reel Talk with Stephen Farber-which is now based at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles-continues its fall season on Monday,...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Cautiva

For many Argentineans, 1978 marks an unforgettable year. It was the year that their football team won the World Cup. It was also...

Rahwa Asmerom

Film Interviews

300

As with any grand-scale war battle or guts and glory epic, you win some you lose some. Whether its nation vs. nation or brother...

Kym Parsons

Film Projections

Spotlight on Carl Theodor Dreyer

Born in Copenhagen in 1889 to a Swedish farmer and his housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dryer would eventually emerge as one of filmmaking's...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Josh Duhamel

It's not every day that an actor can swing from daytime to primetime television and then tackle the big screen, but Josh Duhamel...

Mari Fong

Film Interviews

Anything but 'Passion'

I'll level with you, The Nativity Story is probably not the best make-out movie I've seen lately, but then again; it's probably...

Sam Roudman

Film Interviews

Eternal Life Discovered

Things never come easy for Director Darren Aronofsky. “If people are saying ‘No,' then you know you are doing something right,”...

Alexander L. Carpenter

Film Projections

The NeverEnding Story

Before he went on to make such testosterone-heavy films as The Perfect Storm , Troy and summer's water-logged Poseidon , director...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Jack Black and Kyle Gass

With the holiday season coming up you will be inundated with movie ads trying to convince you to spend your cash on the biggest...

David Tobin

Film Projections

Notes on a Scandal

Reel Talk with Stephen Farber – which is now based at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles – continues its fall season on Monday,...

Abbi Toushin