Amy Nicholson

Cinefamily's Annual Grab Bag, the Everything Is Festival

Amy Nicholson
"Going down a wormhole is the only way to program something like this," says Everything Is Festival co-programmer Dimitri Simakis. He knows about obsession — Simakis has collected more than 5,000 VHS copies of Jerry Maguire — and along with Cinefamily head programmer Hadrian Belove he has scheduled 10 days......

Why Aren't Women Hired for Movie Trailer Voice-Overs?

Amy Nicholson
Lake Bell can do incredible things with her tongue. She can touch her nose, twist it to both sides, and fold it backward as flat as an omelet. In a Silver Lake studio, recording vocal exercise warm-ups for an online campaign promoting her directorial debut, In a World... — a......
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James Deen Wants to Put His Burrito in Your Mouth

Amy Nicholson
Porn star James Deen has two passions: women and food. And when he loves something, be it a chick or a chicken sandwich, he's going to shoot a video about it -- and he'll probably take his shirt off. Deen's Twitter account, which he uses to wheedle fans into bringing......

A Sundance Festival in L.A.

Amy Nicholson
Last November, director Chad Hartigan was in line to see Lincoln at the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, wondering if it was time for him to get a job. He'd spent all his money — plus the cash from two Kickstarter campaigns — making his second feature, This Is Martin......

Sundance Next Weekend Fest: Three Best Films to See

Amy Nicholson
Our top picks for Sundance's Next Weekend fest: Blue Caprice Talk about sympathy for the devil. Alexandre Moors' biopic of 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo (Tequan Richmond), the teenage Beltway sniper who helped his "dad" kill 10 people in three weeks, shows how the minor fell under the mental sway of......
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Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical Is Stuck in 1993

Amy Nicholson
"I'm not a stalker," trills Annie (Chandra Lee Schwartz) in Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical, after she's flown across the country to stand outside the houseboat of widowed father Sam (Tim Martin Gleason), whom she's never met. Debatable. But to cut down on the creep factor, Jeff Arch, Ben Toth......