Karina Longworth

Paramount, distributor of David O. Russell's The Fighter, celebrated the helmer's Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a "For Your Consideration" ad on the cover of Variety, touting him as "the comeback of the year." It was an odd choice of phrasing, considering that The Fighter, Russell's first feature to......

An overgrown kid with an inimitable walk that defines "bumbling" — body tilted forward 45 degrees, arms hanging straight down, every other step a bounce — Doug (Cris Lankenau) has dropped out of a forensic science program in Chicago and fled home to green-and-gray Portland, to share an apartment with......

Even with 4000+ words, I didn't have nearly enough room in this week's State of the Arthouse cover story to offer a truly exhaustive portrait of Los Angeles' multi-faceted arthouse and repertory movie landscape. I spent a month talking to programmers, marketers, distributors, filmmakers and filmgoers, and though I tried......

There's no "For Rent" sign on the Music Hall at 9036 Wilshire Blvd., a stone's throw from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Writers Guild of America, but an online listing updated on Jan. 13 says the asking price is $14,500 a month for 10,400 square......

In Mike Cahill’s Another Earth — a multiple prizewinner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and one of two titles co-written by and starring the festival’s biggest breakout, Brit Marling — both hope and anxiety follow the discovery of Earth 2, a planet on which each resident of our globe......

A not-quite sequel to the 1984 L.A. punk classic Repo Man, Alex Cox's Repo Chick is both extreme formal experiment and a genre-mashing goof-off. Starring some of the same actors but none of the same characters, and still using the grungy edge-of-L.A. milieu as ground zero for apocalyptic panic, Cox's......

Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an unlikely candidate to direct No Strings Attached, an extremely low-concept, low-key romantic comedy of contemporary sexual mores centered on the dating foibles of attractive nerds. Fully devoid of the fantasy contrivance that often sets a Reitman......

The Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 20-30, self-identifies as a “discovery festival,” meaning that it embraces its own legend of being a place where, over the course of a single screening, an unknown can transform into an industry-redefining star — even as that fantasy seems increasingly out of date......