Category Archives: Film & TV

The Richard Stark novel “Flashfire” is reimagined for the big screen in “Parker,” a crime thriller starring Jason Statham as Parker and Jennifer Lopez as Leslie, a forty-year-old divorcee returning to the work force and struggling to make ends meet.

With dual citizenship in the U.S. and in Greece, UCLA alumna Alethea Avramis finds a way to add dimension to her filmmaking while she is caught between two cultures.

By most technical standards, Miguel Gomes’ “Tabu” is a film out of time. It’s shot in gauzy black and white, it’s framed in boxy Academy ratio, and the latter half of the film, titled “Paradise” and without dialogue, is devoted to a love story set in Portuguese-colonized Africa. At once charming and puzzling, the film’s […]

After shooting down a large hanging carcass in a dirt lot owned by a disillusioned hillbilly, played by none other than Johnny Knoxville, Sheriff Owens is soon shedding tears as he races to save the life of his ill-fated deputy.

After nearly a decade of absence from the big screen, Los Angeles’ very own Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his return to the silver screen in South Korean director Jee-woon Kim’s action thriller “The Last Stand.”

Kit Williamson has come a long way since his humble beginnings in Jackson, Miss., where he took summer classes in Shakespeare and performed in plays such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Macbeth.” “I was always thinking up stories and trying to explore things that were different from me and let my imagination run wild,” Williamson […]

January is notorious for releasing poor films to the year’s opening audience.