AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, has taken off at Hollywood Boulevard. Over the next week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, will be making appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting […]
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AFI Fest 2014: Day two
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, has taken off at Hollywood Boulevard. Over the next week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, will be making appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with numerous awaiting […]
AFI Fest 2014: Day one
AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, has taken off at Hollywood Boulevard. From Thursday through the next week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, will be making appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with […]
TFT alumna’s film seeks to shed light on child sex trafficking
Melody Miller wants to teach children about a subject matter that she can’t show them. It’s a subject that Miller said she has to hide behind imagery and vignettes – one that the children she reaches out to don’t often understand exists in their world. Miller’s subject is human trafficking, which affects more than 100,000 […]
Movie Review: ‘Big Hero 6’
With each successive project, Walt Disney Animation Studios advances ahead of its cartoon-pioneering roots. Sure, Walt Disney’s legacy and imagination will never die, but a project such as “Big Hero 6” spurs ahead what the master created in his lifetime. That’s because “Big Hero 6” is a dazzling showcase of what Disney can do in […]
Movie Review: ‘Force Majeure’
There is a primal instinct that’s generally truer than the traditional fight-or-flight responses: panic. Unbridled, terrified panic. It usually manifests as screaming or, internally, a mind-numbing sense of lingering dread. That’s almost what “Force Majeure” is like – both in plot and experience. “Force Majeure” is an unconventional disaster movie, never letting its audience members […]
Movie Review: ‘John Wick’
In “John Wick,” Keanu Reeves is the action hero for everybody. He has the overwhelming bloodlust of Mel Gibson in “Mad Max,” the surprising vengefulness of Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill” and the brooding professionalism of Liam Neeson in “Taken.” Like the protagonists in all of the aforementioned films, Reeves’ title character goes on an […]