"Mad Max: Fury Road" — now this is some road trip! You enter a dry, gritty, metallic, angry world, sucked into it as if through a vacuum. The surroundings
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" may have hit theaters weeks ago, but it continues to rack up ticket sales well into the summer. For gamers and avid comic book
When I sat down to view "Gemma Bovery" at the COLCOA French Film Festival sponsored by Air Tahiti Nui recently, I anticipated the need to keep my concentration
The Vidiots Foundation presents the director's cut of "Top Secret!" — screened only once before and not available on DVD. The movie will be followed by a
A gifted computer programmer who works for a powerful search engine corporation wins a contest sponsored by the company's CEO. The programmer is elated. The prize is a
The recent Los Angeles premiere of "Tales" (Ghesse-ha) by writer-director Rakshan Bani-Etemad, was part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Celebration of Iranian Cinema. I
Santa Monica College will host a Kanin Family Film Series May 15-17. SMC Film Studies professor Josh Kanin will introduce the films, and will join SMC Political Science professor Alan
Imagine swinging through the jungle like Tarzan in a forest that's grown up around the ancient domed structures of a long deserted city, jumping from rock to rock,
The landscapes in the film "True Story" are faces and eyes — of a man accused of murdering his family (James Franco), and of the troubled news reporter whose
You think it's hard to get filming permits today? Just be glad the occupational hazards have lessened in the past century.
One hundred years ago this month, an