Ernest Hardy

"You know, if people just go into the theater looking to have a good time and to laugh, this film absolutely delivers," says director Neil LaBute of Death at a Funeral, the American remake of the minor-hit British film of the same name (it opens on April 16). That's not......

Celebrating its twelfth anniversary this year, Method Fest - whose raison d'etre is to showcase films driven by performances and strong stories, not special effects or global market potential - has slowly evolved into a very big deal. This year's films star such respected names as Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney,......

The Los Angeles Pan African Film and Arts Festival, celebrating its 18th anniversary this year, is one of the city's best film festivals, and last year's transfer of the festival's film program to the Culver Plaza Theaters from its longtime home at Magic Johnson Theaters finally places its programmed fare......

There’s been a serious miscommunication. Some of the porn stars hired for supporting roles in writer-director Bruce LaBruce’s gay-porn zombie film, L.A. Zombie, haven’t been told by producers that they are expected to actually have sex on film. Enticed by the prospect of working with LaBruce (Hustler White; No Skin......

On the evening of the Hollywood premiere of Precious, the film adaptation of the acclaimed 1996 novel Push by Sapphire (née Ramona Lofton), the author sits in a lounge in the Roosevelt Hotel, across the street from the hoopla taking place in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Following our interview,......

This year’s Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival kicks off with the presentation of the Gabriel Figueroa Lifetime Achievement Award to iconic Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, followed by a screening of his new film Broken Embraces, starring the auteur’s current muse, Penélope Cruz. If the $75 ticket price makes attending......