Email Author Karina Longworth
Thurs., Sept. 8 Tonight's the final night to catch Littlerock, Mike Ott's award-winning... More >>
When Albert Brooks greets me in the reception area of his Beverly Hills office, I immediately recognize his shirt. The baggy, faded red,... More >>
Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on Day 2 of a global... More >>
The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat ... More >>
Thurs., Sept. 1 The Arbor, my current choice for the best documentary of the year, concludes... More >>
The sleeper hit of the 2010 film festival and indie awards circuit, Mike Ott's moody, microbudget Littlerock patiently observes the... More >>
After opening in second place behind Rise of the Planet of the Apes on its debut weekend, The Help topped... More >>
In Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of Upstate New York version of "The Dude" Lebowski... More >>
One Day stars Anne Hathaway as Emma, a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She's nursing a crush on... More >>
Thurs., Aug. 18 Evan Glodell's apocalyptic, controversy-stirring festival darling Bellflower... More >>
When we put Kevin Smith on our cover in April, the Clerks writer-director was telling the world that he planned to... More >>
More than just the Hollywood It girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an... More >>
Miranda July clutters her speech with a surplus of "likes" and "you knows," conspicuous even for a 37-year-old living in a... More >>
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as standard-issue... More >>
An earnest, ethereal riff on the one-night-in-a-high-school-caste-system interwoven-narrative ensemble piece, writer-director David Robert... More >>
In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high school sweetheart... More >>
Thurs., July 21 The Honeymoon Killers, librettist Leonard Kastle's sordid true love story... More >>
There may be nothing as Old Hollywood as the narrative about a pretty girl summoning up a dose of pluck to triumph over... More >>
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic... More >>
"Sex is a virus," says Richard Foreman in Marie Losier's short film about his experimental theater work, The Ontological Cowboy, screening Sunday at LA Filmforum. "Let's not kid ourselves: we're dri... More >>
The third feature from Brooklyn-based Zach Clark, Vacation! is a psychological study wrapped up in a girls-will-be-girls beach-party movie and given a post-post-punk spin. Nerdy Sugar (Maggie Ross) ... More >>
Michael Rapaport answers the door to his Hancock Park house with a vague look of panic on his familiar, strawberry-blond... More >>
Thu., July 8 The Levi-sponsored Wild Goodness — a microfestival of food films and themed events at Cinefamily... More >>
There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word "pussy." Her charac... More >>
"I am angry," Conan O'Brien admits in Rodman Flender's tour doc, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop. "I'm trying not to be ... but sometimes I'm... More >>
