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Sahara Sweetie

Most U.S. audiences were introduced to Penelope Cruz in 2001, when she got “all kinds of crazy” opposite Johnny Depp in Ted Demme’s...

Chris Pryor

Film Projections

The Los Angeles Italian Film Awards Festival

Founded in 1998, The Los Angeles Italian Film Awards (LAIFA) Festival is designed to promote both Italian and Italian-American...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Comedy of a Different Color

The ads for Kung Fu Hustle exclaim: "A new comedy unlike anything you have ever seen before." Combine villains who kill with...

Paul Crocetti

Film Interviews

Beating the Elements

Scorching heat, bitter cold and cactus needles buried in the skin are not things most people would willingly subject themselves...

Niyaz Pirani

Film Interviews

Fairytale Ending

When Peter and Bobby Farrelly first set out to make Fever Pitch, the filmmakers and their cast and crew had no reason to believe...

Paul Crocetti

Film Projections

First Look Film Festival

Held twice yearly, in April and October, the USC First Look Film Festival offers entertainment execs, agents and managers a chance...

Abbi Toushin

Film Projections

The Method Fest Independent Film Festival

Director Melissa Painter’s complex drama about growing up, Steal Me, will kick off the 7th annual Method Fest Film Festival...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Independent Woman

Going from hip-hop fly girl to illustrious actress wasn’t an easy road to travel, but Queen Latifah, with a tight support system...

Mary Montoro

Film Projections

Vulgarthon Film Festival

Director Kevin Smith’s View Askew Productions takes over ArcLight’s Cinerama Dome March 28 with the very first Vulgarthon to...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Jordana Brewster

Jordana Brewster has been acting since the age of 15, but until now she’s never played a villain – or a lesbian. She gets to...

Geoff Berkshire

Film Movie Reviews

Downfall

While it isn’t the first movie to come along that examines Hitler, the Nazis, and the end of World War II, Downfall, which...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

John Corbett

After a candid promotional interview for Raise Your Voice in October, John Corbett announced during a press junket for his...

Addie Moorfoot

Film Interviews

Christina Ricci

After a nearly complete re-shoot, Wes Craven’s new horror film Cursed will release in theaters Feb. 25. Although the word re-shoot...

Paul Crocetti

Film Interviews

Armed And Fabulous

Sandra Bullock is a woman of many talents. An actress since the late 1980s and a producer since the late ’90s, Bullock has had...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Coming to America

In American film, certain themes are commonly used to propel a story forward: coming-of-age, self-discovery and revenge. In Walk...

Sandra Kraisirideja

Film Interviews

Vin Diesel

When he landed a role in Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic Saving Private Ryan, Vin Diesel’s career went from the slow lane...

Chris Pryor

Film Movie Reviews

Walk on Water

A film about historical conflicts and emotional healing, Walk on Water has too big an agenda for its 104-minute running time....

Melissa E. Goldberg

Film Movie Reviews

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Within the opening minutes of the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, bohemian Mark Bittner clearly states that he...

Rahwa Asmerom

Film Movie Reviews

Mail Order Wife

Adrian (Adrian Martinez) is a snake-loving, fuzzy-haired bear of a man who works as a doorman in Queens, and director Andrew...

James Bartlett

Film Movie Reviews

The Upside of Anger

With its uncommon story of a middle-aged woman’s comic tragedy of depression after abandonment by her husband and featuring...

Joe Horton

Film Interviews

Way Off Broadway

When the gates of the ivory tower part and college graduates stumble blindly into the brutal, take-no-prisoners world of real...

Joe Horton

Film Projections

Lebowski Fest West

Started in the fall of 2002 by Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, two avid fans of the 1998 Coen Brothers flick The Big Lebowski,...

Abbi Toushin

Film Interviews

Michelle Trachtenberg

In her latest offering, Ice Princess, Michelle Trachtenberg plays the role of bookish, mathematically inclined high schooler...

Chris Pryor

Film Interviews

Back to the Future

What’s a guy to do once he’s won a Best Actor Oscar for his first major starring role (The Pianist) and kissed the sultry Halle...

Alexander L. Carpenter

Film Movie Reviews

Hostage

If you just can’t get enough of watching people yell into cell phones, you’ll love Hostage. Bruce Willis stars as Jeff Talley,...

Brandon Makaryk

Film Movie Reviews

Face

Bertha Bay-Sa Pan’s Face bounces back and forth between the 1970s and the 1990s, telling two parallel stories of a mother and...

Ada Tseng

Film Interviews

Family Ties

The recreation of an authentic family environment remains one of filmmaking's most elusive and difficult challenges. Breathing...

Joe Horton

Film Interviews

Dot the I

In Matthew Parkhill’s debut feature, the romantic thriller dot the i, James D’Arcy (Master and Commander) plays one of the lead...

Paul Crocetti

Film Interviews

The Final Cut

“The premise comes with the whole package,” says actor Jim Caviezel, explaining what intrigued him about his latest role in the...

Chris Pryor

Film Interviews

From Sexpot to Robot

Jennifer Coolidge is the kind of actress who lends a bucketful of originality to every character she inhabits. She made young...

Abbi Toushin