Twenty-five year-old actor-writer-director Cooper Raiff has followed his terrific indie comedy, Shithouse (2020) with Cha Cha Real Smooth, a more serious-minded film
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Providing a live action take on the original 1994 animated classic, The Lion King, Disney’s new The Lion King is an ambitious attempt to capture the magic of a fi
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Friday, March 16
The Fallen Idol may not be quite as well known as director Carol Reed's postwar masterpiece, The Third Man, but it has an even
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At the corner of Manchester Avenue and St. Andrews Place in South Los Angeles, against a backdrop of box-shaped stores and gray concrete, Pasacio “
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“This is the first generation that is expected to live shorter lives than their parents,” says Katie Couric, narrator of Stephanie Soechtig's documen
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Nicholas Stoller's hilarious Neighbors splashes into summer with the satisfying swish-plop-hooray of a winning beer-pong serve, making the director, who also wro
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Chef, the back-to-his-roots indie flick from Jon Favreau (Iron Man), is to modern foodie culture as his own Swingers is to '90s swing revival. Favreau plays Carl
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“You ladies, and most men as well, are always thinking about the size, aren't you?” accuses Sigurdur “Siggi” Hjartarson, the founder of t
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Friday, April 18
Starting on Friday at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater is the film series Stages: Norman Lloyd and American Television. Since beginning his
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Tom Hiddleston can pull off extreme looks. In The Avengers, he strutted around in Loki's 2-foot-tall, horned helmet. In Midnight in Paris, he finessed F. Scott F
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Honestly, when it started six years ago, Californication was provocative, ballsy and fun, with laugh-out-loud dialogue and plenty of smart musings about love, sex, f
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