Welcome to L.A. Weekly’s Movie Guide, your look at the hottest films in Los Angeles theaters this week — from indie art house gems and classics to popcorn-perfe...
Jumanji: The Next Level is the third installment in the rebooted franchise, bringing together Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan for anoth...
Clint Eastwood continues his examination of American heroism with Richard Jewell, a tightly constructed drama about the security guard who drew national media a...
Franz Jägerstätter, a peaceful Austrian farmer from the village of Radegund, was 36 years old when he was executed by the Nazis for refusing to swear allegiance...
Rosine Mbakam was born in Cameroon and lives and works in Belgium. After gaining acclaim for her short films, she turned to feature-length documentaries. Her fi...
Maurice Tourneur was one of silent cinema’s greatest artists, but like huge swaths of history from that period, his filmography remains largely inaccessible. Th...
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, a richly involving documentary directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky, centers on Jonas Brodsky, the director’s young s...
Jennifer Reeder’s high-concept high school horror film, Knives and Skin, demonstrates what a maximum of creativity can do with a minimum of budget. The disappea...
Eminent film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new tome surveys the ideologies of the Hollywood blockbusters produced during the Reagan years. UCLA ha...
Playmobil: The Movie represents STX Films’ attempt to get in on some of that Lego Movie money. Viewers familiar with the line of themed toys that became popular...