Karina Longworth

It's 1992, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian nightclub when they're interrupted by a bomb blast. A few months later, Ajla is one of dozens of women rounded up and bused to a detention camp, where the all-female, all-Muslim prisoners......

We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to put on......

Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play Carnage stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet as two sets of Brooklyn parents whose social, economic and philosophic differences are leveled in less than 80 minutes by their common pettiness and immaturity. Posh pair Alan and Nancy......

Early on in Bertrand Bonello's haunting, darkly gorgeous new film, House of Pleasures, a client of the titular turn-of-the-20th-century brothel mentions that he's just finished reading The War of the Worlds. Its early sci-fi vision of an unfathomable invasion, he says, is "idiotic but pure genius." That a "guilty" pleasure......

Cinefamily's Fantastic, Elastic 24-Hour Holiday Telethon, beginning at noon on Saturday and extending until the following day, was modeled after celebrity-studded televised fundraisers of yore, but even the theater's executive director, Hadrian Belove, admits the branding is something of a misnomer, since the show won't be televised. It will, however,......

W.E. is the second feature film credited to former MTV queen Madonna, and the second film in 12 months, after The King's Speech, to dramatize the empire-imperiling affair between the future King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy) and American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), a woman who couldn't be queen. It......

In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence (and downtown loft) when a reckless night with schlubby photographer flame Franklin (John C. Reilly) results in an accidental pregnancy, free-spirit travel writer Eva becomes an......

The Sunset 5, the art-house multiplex on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights that was once ground zero for L.A. cinephilia, was at press time scheduled to close after Tuesday night's shows. We'll have a story in the coming weeks on the history and future of the theater,......

Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the downward spiral of LAPD cop Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson). A Vietnam vet whose personal code allows for extreme bad behavior in the name of a hazily defined greater good, Brown......