To Live and Write in LA

Narrative film – movies that tell a story through drama or comedy – has the power to foster cultural change, as these two films demonstrate

You don’t have to do anything wrong to be destroyed by litigation.

The Anthem Film Festival, part of the FreedomFest Conference, runs from July 10-13, 2013, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

This year’s LA Film Fest, sponsored by Film Independent, continued to be a remarkable cultural achievement. But within its 10-day run there were highs and lows.

Europa Report is “hard” sci-fi. That means that its plot cannot be separated from the science involved. Does that mean Europa Report is nerdy or boring? Absolutely not.

I really didn't want to like The Spectacular Now, but, I did.

Nahid Persson Sarvestani's very personal film about the aftermath and consequences of the 1979 Iranian revolution.

On June 23, 2013, at the LA Film Fest worlds collided.

An outlaw escapes from prison to find the wife and the daughter he’s never met in this intimate film-noir.

Maya Rudolph on her favorite actors and influences at the LA Film Festival