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  Interview with Straight Outta Compton Producer Bill Straus

  By Pablo Lopez on August 24, 2015

  East Coast native Bill Straus came to Los Angeles with the aspiration of being a writer one day, but little did he know that he...

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  Review: Straight Outta Compton, a Fairly Complete Biopic About a Very Historic Music Group

  By Ariel Paredes on August 23, 2015

  F. Gary Gray’s highly anticipated biopic Straight Outta Compton is exciting, relevant and worth the wait. Having former members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube executive...

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  Review: Kiernan Shipka Gives a Standout Performance in Quiet Parable One & Two

  By Jeremy Ross on August 20, 2015

  Movies about people with supernatural powers that dominate multiplexes during the summer are generally overblown affairs that endow their protagonists with amazing abilities, but One...

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  Review: Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm Is One of the Year’s Strongest Films

  By Jeremy Ross on August 20, 2015

  Anyone prone to fits of jealousy should avoid the films of Xavier Dolan. At age 26, he has directed several films to international acclaim, including...

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  Review: Joel Edgerton Directs Jason Bateman in Effective Thriller, The Gift

  By Jeremy Ross on August 14, 2015

  Jason Bateman may have resurrected his career by playing the sanest character on “Arrested Development” and maintained that streak by acting as the straight man...

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  Review: Tap World Is Less About Tap and More About the World

  By Jeremy Ross on August 14, 2015

  The documentary Tap World is less about tap dancing and more about the world itself, as it chronicles the lives of tap dancing performers and...

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  Interview: Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann Discuss Working Together in A La Mala

  By Marvin Vasquez on August 14, 2015

  On camera as professionals, they look adorable together, and their appearance in real life is simply too enchanting for words. I am, of course, referring...

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  Review: Universal Romantic Comedy A La Mala, Now on DVD

  By Jeremy Ross on August 4, 2015

  It is a commonly held belief that action films are the one truly international film genre, given that explosions and gunshots are the same in...

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  Review: Visual Beauty Captured on the DVD of Flamenco, Flamenco

  By Jeremy Ross on August 4, 2015

  Carlos Saura’s Flamenco, Flamenco contains no spoken dialogue, no characters, no narrative and, despite its songs being performed in the Spanish language, no subtitles. It...

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  Review: Seashore, Now on DVD, Sets Coming-of-Age LGBT Films on New Path

  By Jeremy Ross on August 9, 2015

  The ‘coming-out’ film is the foundation of most gay cinema, but Seashore takes the classic story of young men who discover their attraction to each...

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  Review: Scott Eastwood Shines in The Longest Ride, Now on DVD

  By Jeremy Ross on August 3, 2015

  Scott Eastwood may have been born in Carmel during the time when his father served as mayor of the California beach town, but it is...

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  Fantastic Four Fan Event Takes Over Azalea Shopping Center

  By Living Out Loud Staff on July 30, 2015

  On Saturday, July 25, Fantastic Four practically took over the Azalea Shopping Center’s summer concert series in South Gate, Calif. As we all know, the...

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  Review: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation May Be the Best in Franchise Since Original

  By Jeremy Ross on August 5, 2015

  At long last, Tom Cruise has no ego. The actor spent most of the ‘80s and ’90s playing characters who could almost all be called...

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  Interview: Ed Helms, Christina Applegate Talk Vacation

  By Taylor Wong on July 28, 2015

  At first when Ed Helms got the film script of Vacation, he was rather surprised and somewhat didn’t know what to do or say. “I...

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  Review: A Modernized and Very Funny Vacation

  By Jeremy Ross on August 3, 2015

  John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein’s Vacation acts both as a sequel to National Lampoon’s Vacation and a reboot of the franchise for the...

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  Writer/Director Pablo Fendrik’s Eco-Friendly Latin Western, Ardor

  By Ramon Aviles on July 27, 2015

  Ardor is a new film co-produced by Argentine, Mexican, Brazilian and American producers, and is written and directed by Pablo Fendrik. It stars Gael García...

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  Michael Peña and Olivia Taylor Dudley Wage War with the Devil in The Vatican Tapes

  By Ramon Aviles on August 5, 2015

  The latest battle between good and evil comes in the form of The Vatican Tapes. The film stars Michael Peña, Dougray Scott, Kathleen Robertson and...

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  Review: One of the Strongest Indie Films of the Summer – Runoff

  By Jeremy Ross on August 5, 2015

  Successful directors have come from the ranks of painters and journalists, but Kimberly Levin may be the first biochemist to win acclaim as a director...

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  Review: Twinsters, A Fascinating and Heartwarming Documentary

  By Jeremy Ross on August 3, 2015

  Despite telling the tale of two adoptees from Korea who find out that they are actually identical twins raised in different environments, Twinsters has the...

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  Review: Jake Gyllenhaal is Brilliant in Southpaw, But Film Lacks Punch

  By Dash Finley on July 30, 2015

  When I saw the first trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s somber Southpaw, I assumed it was another boxing movie based on an inspirational true story a...

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  Review: Smosh Comedy Team Makes Clever Film Debut, Smosh: The Movie

  By Jeremy Ross on July 23, 2015

  Even a decade after the website became a daily fixture in the lives of anyone who spends any time browsing the web, the term ‘YouTube...

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  The Longest Ride Out on Blu-Ray/DVD

  By Sylvia Aparicio on July 21, 2015

  Nicholas Sparks fan rejoice, The Longest Ride is now available on Blu-Ray/DVD. Based on the bestselling novel, the romantic drama centers on the love affair...

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  Jon Hamm and Allison Janney Have Fun Making Minions

  By Pablo Lopez on July 21, 2015

  The Minions made their return to Hollywood this month starring in their own new movie, Minions, taking us on a trip through history to preserve...

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  Review: Entertaining Performances and Technology in Ant-Man

  By Hillary Villeno on July 24, 2015

  As we look into the Marvel universe, we come across the newest addition in our line of superheroes. However, this hero is not your ordinary...

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  Review: Mr. Holmes’ Top-Notch Performances Don’t Make Up for a Meandering Plot

  By Dash Finley on July 17, 2015

  Given his iconically British gravitas, it’s a small wonder that the Ian McKellen hasn’t played London’s legendary detective Sherlock Holmes already over the course of...

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  Interview: Paul Rudd Is Perfectly Suited to Play Ant-Man

  By Hillary Villeno on July 24, 2015

  As we dive into the Marvel universe, we come across a film that is destined to be bigger than the size of its titular character....

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  Review: Tangerine Is an Exciting, Gritty and Unconventional Film

  By Jeremy Ross on July 16, 2015

  One could easily imagine the cinema purists of yesteryear rolling over in their graves upon hearing of both the subject matter and the film techniques...

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