Amy Nicholson

You don't have to watch movies during the L.A. Film Festival. Instead, you could attend the master-class discussion "Re-Imagining L.A.," co-hosted by production designer K.K. Barrett of Her, which dreamed of a future L.A. where the subway stretched to the Pacific. The all-star panel "Women Who Call the Shots," headed......

In 1986, peaceniks were mad at Tom Cruise. That year, the Navy credited Top Gun for boosting enlistment by another 20,000 recruits. Since then, Cruise has made more critiques of military than advertisements, most of which (Lions for Lambs, Born on the Fourth of July, The Last Samurai, Valkyrie) accuse......

When Phil Lord and Chris Miller pitched their idea for a 21 Jump Street movie, a film everyone thought was, at best, a moronic moneymaker, they had one bold proposal: "What if the twist is that we try to make it really good?" Lord says. "That's basically a summary of......

We're still adjusting to Seth MacFarlane as a big-screen star. Not just because his breakneck, absurdist humor often demands that viewers pause and rewind, but because the man himself looks like a hand-inked cartoon, with his black, pupil-less eyes and an alabaster baby face that, lacking cheekbones that could carve......

Boil Maleficent down to one newt's nose–size piece of advice and you'd get this: Don't dump Angelina Jolie. It's not a problem most mortals will face but, as seen through director Robert Stromberg's lens, the antlered arch-villain of Sleeping Beauty is a sympathetic scorned woman, equal parts Gloria Gaynor, Princess......

James McAvoy knows not to trust the British tabloids. While flogging his grotty drama Filth, based on the Irvine Welsh novel about a coke-addicted, double-crossing cop, they breathlessly reported that the Scottish actor had dived so deep into Method acting that he'd convinced a German hooker to punch him in......

It was Jason Tugman's first day of work. Almost a decade later, he still remembers the screams. A former circus fire-eater, he'd taken a job as a lighting technician for The Oprah Winfrey Show after burning off a chunk of his tongue. The pay was $32 an hour and he......