For his film debut in “Blitz,” Elliott Heffernan had a tall order. He had to perform in perilous scenes that found his character running through WWII battlefields as bombs dropped, leaping...
Los Angeles has long had a passionate love affair with French cinema, dating back more than 60 years ago when there were lines around the block to get into theaters showing...
It takes a village to make a movie, but when it comes to producers, at best they’re stereotyped as the money people — at worst, their efforts are nullified by honorary...
Any director would love to land Mahershala Ali for their film. Now imagine getting the two-time Oscar-winner for your first feature. That’s what happened to Daniel Klein in 2000 when he...
Unless you’re a hardcore Disney fan, you probably don’t remember the short-lived attraction “The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.” A theatrical experience that ran briefly in the 1990s in Florida’s Magic Kingdom, it...
A couple of years ago, Luke Barnett heard from his mother – even though it had been 20 years since she died. The actor-filmmaker received a text from an unknown number...
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and Oscar nominees June Squibb, Colman Domingo and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are among the honorees at this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival Honors on Oct. 20 at the...
At a screening and Q&A promoting her film “His Three Daughters,” Natasha Lyonne revealed she once auditioned for a lead role in the 1998 cult classic “Wild Things.” The erotic thriller...
