Karina Longworth

Queen of Versailles, the latest film from documentarian and photographer Lauren Greenfield (Thin), follows David and Jackie Siegel, the 70-something Westgate timeshare mogul and his 40-something trophy wife who were in the middle of building the largest single-family home in America when the financial crisis hit, throwing Siegel's sub-prime mortgage-based......

"Steven asked me, 'Why is Angelina Jolie the only female action star in the world?' I told him, 'I don't know,' and he said, 'Because someone made her that way, and I'm going to make Gina into one of the biggest action stars in the world.'" That was Ryan Kavanaugh,......

Mexico's submission for the Foreign-Language Film Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala literally spells out the destiny of its would-be beauty-queen heroine in its first shot, a collage of glamour magazine clippings on her bedroom wall built around the conspicuous headline "Fashion Victim." The bedroom belongs to Laura (Stephanie Sigman),......

Tomorrow I leave Los Angeles for Park City, Utah, where I'll attend and report on the Sundance Film Festival for the seventh time in as many years. As a film critic and the editor of the Weekly's Film section, attending major film festivals (I go to Sundance, Cannes and Toronto)......

"Comedians are the new rock stars!!!" breathlessly gushes three-fifths of the Internet. But this weekend at Cinefamily, comedians will endanger the jobs of a different kind of cultural trendsetter: film festival programmers. The inaugural Wayne Federman International Film Festival is the brainchild of the titular comic character actor. You may......

Remember Margaret? The Anna Paquin-starring drama was written in 2003, shot in 2005 and then given only a token release last September: on screen for just two weeks, with almost no marketing or promotion. After that, it was virtually impossible to see. The good news is, you soon will be......

In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which reteams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep, 80-something Margaret Thatcher is presented as a little old lady unfit for the fast-moving world outside her hermetic London townhouse. The bulk of the movie takes place in an even......