The 28th Outfest Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival kicks off July 8. We've noted some of our favorite films from their pleasingly potent lineup below. Sc
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Avatar leads the Best Picture category
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Every Sunday afternoon, Marjorie Eliot hosts a jazz concert in her Harlem living room. Strangers file in, fill up a few dozen folding chairs, and sit under dim blue
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Is it too bright for you?” Michael Mann asks as I take the seat across from him in his Santa Monica office, the late-afternoon sun streaming in through the wall-to
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Brittany Murphy's husband, screenwriter Simon Monjack, was the cause of her firing last month from a movie project being filmed in Puerto Rico at the time, accor
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Whether it's dinner and a movie or popcorn to munch on during the previews, your stomach is often tied to the cinematic experience. From the comic relief of Robi
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What do you call artists who advocate? Artivists, of course. The filmmakers on show at the Artivist Film Festival (sixth annual, in fact) are on a mission to raise p
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More zombies: Read GENDY ALIMURUNG's “This Zombie Moment: Hunting for What Lies Beneath the Zombie Zeitgeist,” STEVEN MIKULAN's “I Rode W
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Forty years ago this week, the Cannes Film Festival ground to a halt. At an impromptu press conference held on the morning of May 18, 1968 — nine days into the fe
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The ripples of unease that emanate from the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke have been spreading ever wider for well over a decade now. Last year, Haneke rea
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Lending a winning imprimatur to Asia Argento’s bloated adaptation of JT LeRoy’s novel The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, French director Gaspar Noé — a
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You can’t exactly ignore the central device of the CBS sitcom
How I Met Your Mother: It kicks off each show. We see a couple of bored-looking
kids from the yea
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