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  Knock Knock Turns Fantasies into Nightmares

  By Sylvia Aparicio on October 9, 2015

  Leave it to Eli Roth to turn a seemingly perfect life into a dark and twisted reality. His latest film, Knock Knock, revolves around architect...

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  Mad Monster Presents The Devil’s Rejects 10th Anniversary Screening

  By Sabina Graves on October 19, 2015

  The Devil’s Rejects, Rob Zombie’s cult hit and follow-up to his 2003 debut of House of a 1000 Corpses, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with...

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  Review: An Essential Documentary for Angelenos, East LA Interchange

  By Jeremy Ross on October 19, 2015

  Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles is now a predominantly Mexican-American community known for a high crime rate, yet the history of the neighborhood is...

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  Review: Alléluia, a Triumph of Style More Than Anything Else

  By Jeremy Ross on October 9, 2015

  Serial killing tends to be a solitary vocation. The various three-named killers responsible for slaughtering many innocent victims almost always work alone, but there are...

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  Eli Roth on Working with Keanu Reeves and Bulldozing the Oscars to Get Knock Knock Made

  By Frederick Mintchell on October 19, 2015

  If you’ve seen an Eli Roth movie – Cabin Fever, the Hostel films or The Green Inferno – you know that when it comes to...

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  Review: Nuanced Performances Under the Sure Hand of Director Colette Bothof Make Summer Shine

  By Dash Finley on October 5, 2015

  Proposing a riveting context framework of ambiguous spirituality and nascent digitalization, noted Dutch auteur Colette Bothof’s second feature, Summer, earmarks charming character dramedy with wide-arching...

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  Review: Emily Blunt Gets Her Hands Dirty in One of the Best Movies of the Year, Sicario

  By Frederick Mintchell on October 19, 2015

  If you are suffering from superhero/sequel/reboot fatigue at your local multiplex, this is a great weekend to catch a movie on the big screen. Three...

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  Review: Iraq as Experienced by the Iraqis in Mikael

  By Jeremy Ross on October 19, 2015

  Films about Iraq conjure immediate images of American soldiers fighting a hopeless war against a people who despise us, with the only redemption being the...

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  Review: No Film Has Touched Issues Similar to Those in Partisan

  By Jeremy Ross on October 9, 2015

  Partisan is the type of independent film that defies expectation, plucking bits and pieces from various genres and mixing them in an attempt to see...

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  Review: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, An Enlightening Look Back at National Lampoon

  By Dash Finley on October 19, 2015

  From roughly the 1970s to the ’90s, National Lampoon magazine dominated the print comedy landscape with its fiery mix of avant-garde absurdity, acerbic satire and...

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  Exclusive: Hell and Back’s Rob Riggle and Nick Swardson Keep Playing It Off the Cuff

  By Frederick Mintchell on October 19, 2015

  Meet Remy (Nick Swardson), Augie (“Silicon Valley’s” T.J. Miller) and Curt (Rob Riggle), lifelong friends whose summer job isn’t working out as well as they’d...

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  Review: James Roday’s Directorial Feature Debut, Horror-Comedy Gravy

  By Jeremy Ross on October 9, 2015

  James Roday spent nearly a decade on the detective comedy “Psych,” and after over a hundred episodes of the USA Network buddy series, several of...

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  Jesse Shapiro Attempts to Change Perceptions of the City in Nobody Walks in L.A.

  By Jeremy Ross on October 3, 2015

  In 1982, Missing Persons released the song “Walking in L.A.” with the lyric: “nobody walks in L.A.,” and it has become the norm for residents...

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  Review: Five Stars for The Martian

  By Jeremy Ross on October 19, 2015

  Major studios may seem more and more reliant on films about increasingly obscure comic book heroes and retreads of every single successful action movie of...

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  Review: Labyrinth of Lies Makes Stark Moral Statement

  By Jeremy Ross on October 9, 2015

  The key to understanding Labyrinth of Lies is not the main character, the dashing and handsome young German lawyer who crusades to expose the truth...

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  Review: Mission to Lars, a Heartwarming Documentary about a Family Coping with Disability

  By Jeremy Ross on October 1, 2015

  When one learns that the ‘Lars’ in the title Mission to Lars is Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica, it seems inevitable that the film...

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  Review: 5 Classics By Maurice Pialat Retrospective Showcases Director’s Work

  By Jeremy Ross on October 1, 2015

  Maurice Pialat never had the name recognition of many of his contemporaries in French cinema like Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut, but the director –...

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  Review: Eli Roth’s Latest Horror Gross-Out, The Green Inferno

  By Jeremy Ross on October 1, 2015

  The Green Inferno is a disgusting movie, but considering it is the work of torture porn filmmaker Eli Roth, that is a feature, not a...

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  Eli Roth Shares South-American Jungle Adventures During Filming of The Green Inferno

  By Jeremy Ross on October 1, 2015

  Eli Roth may be 43 years old, but he has the face of someone younger and far more innocent and speaks with the chipper exuberance...

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  Denzel Washington Discusses His Career – Past, Present and Future – at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

  By Jeremy Ross on October 1, 2015

  “It’s the black man standing on the white man,” Denzel Washington exclaims as he looks down at his black sneakers with white soles. This is...

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  Review: East Side Sushi Satisfies and Leaves You Hungry

  By Jeremy Ross on September 27, 2015

  Generally when a film is described as multicultural, it conjures images of white American culture interacting with other cultures and learning from them. It does...

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  Review: François Ozon’s Strongest Work To Date, Blistering Comedy The New Girlfriend

  By Dash Finley on September 27, 2015

  “A hapless woman is shocked to find out that her late friend’s husband is a transvestite and hid his secret from his wife for years.”...

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  Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Looks to Continue the Popular Young Adult Trend

  By Frederick Mintchell on September 27, 2015

  In Hollywood today, there is a feeding frenzy at the studios in the search for the next franchise. First, there are more ways than ever...

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  Review: Everest Tells An Absorbing True Story with a Whole Bunch of Characters

  By Ariel Paredes on September 27, 2015

  Director Baltasar Kormákur’s (2 Guns, Contraband) latest film, Everest, focuses on the real 1996 expedition that went terribly wrong after a deadly snowstorm struck the...

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  LA EigaFest Premieres the Latest in Japanese Cinema

  By Jeremy Ross on September 27, 2015

  The Japan Film Society presents the LA EigaFest, beginning on Sept. 25 and running through Sept. 27 at the Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live. The...

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  As Furious 7 Releases on DVD, What Does the Future Hold for the Series?

  By Jeremy Ross on September 27, 2015

  Paul Walker died almost two years ago, and the latest installment of his Fast & Furious franchise, which releases on DVD today, made mountains of...

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  Review: Meet the Patels Documents a Real-Life Romantic Comedy

  By Jeremy Ross on September 17, 2015

  The idea that films should tell about universal experiences is a confounding one. Why would one want to spend two hours watching a story that...

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