As the summer blockbusters seem to fade away, now we really get to see what films can stand behind their storytelling. After nine years of...
For almost 60 years(!), British-based production company Hammer has been churning out horror films. Some of them are classics, and some of them are shlock,...
FX’s border drama, “The Bridge,” is about a lot of different things. First and foremost, it’s a police procedural centered on events related to the...
When I was a little girl, I watched La Bamba, the story of 17-year-old rock ‘n’ roll singer Ritchie Valens who passed away in a...
At the risk of having my millennial card revoked, I must admit that I’ve never read Lois Lowry’s seminal YA sci-fi novel The Giver. One...
When Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement from feature filmmaking sometime in 2012, I was skeptical. He said the movie industry was too cynical and bullied...
Three lucky winners will receive a pair of tickets to the Los Angeles premiere of Frontera at The Landmark on Thursday, August 21st at 7:30...
A film is a language packed in with several different mediums – art, dialogue, choreography, music, technology and a handful more. These mediums are all...
One of my personal favorite sub-genres is the good ol’ “cop gone wild” flick. Prime examples of this stripe include Abel Ferrara’s classic Bad Lieutenant,...
As a child growing up in the Midwest, Into the Storm director Steven Quale always heard about the power of tornadoes. “When I made this...