Sherrie Li

Friday, Nov. 8 Join a discussion with acclaimed actor-producer Forest Whitaker at 7:30 p.m. at the Aero Theatre, followed at 8 p.m. by two of his recent films. Lee Daniels' The Butler follows Cecil Gaines (played by Whitaker) from his days as a slave in the South to his employment......

Friday, Nov. 1 Walt Disney Studios hosts the two-day GI Film Festival, dedicated to the military. Starting Friday at 10 a.m. is the GI Jobs: Filmmaker Boot Camp and Employment Symposium for $25, which includes a screening of Ground Operation: Battlefield to Farmfields, a documentary short about combat veterans who......

Guantanamo Bay, located on the edges of Cuba, is a controversial military prison with a scandalous history of detainee torture. But nearby there is a naval base with military personnel and their families. And in 2006, a small merry band of performers from the Vamphear Circus went through FBI, CIA,......

It's our special Halloween edition of Your Weekly Movie To-Do List. In addition to the horror films, there's a movie about a circus at Guantanamo Bay. Check it out... Friday, Oct. 25 Start Halloween week with two family-friendly spooky films -- but some grown-up beverages -- at the Downtown Independent's......

Friday, Oct. 18 Running through this weekend is the Arab Film Festival at the Harmony Gold Theater, which has the mission to dispel stereotypes in American mass media and broaden the public's understanding of Arab culture. It starts today at 11:30 a.m. with two shorts. In Imago, a woman's belief......

Friday, Oct. 11 Choose from one of three film festivals to attend this weekend. First, the Beyond Fest continues through the end of the month, bringing the "best in horror, sci-fi, fantasy and badass cinema." At 7:30 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, Richard Donner's 1976 film The Omen gets a......

Friday, Oct. 4 Tonight at 7:30 p.m., you have quite a few choices. At the Egyptian Theatre, the German Currents: Film Festival Los Angeles series kicks off with an opening party and the screening of Measuring the World (Die Vermessung der Welt), based on the best-selling novel by Daniel Kehlmann......

Friday, Sept. 27 Named after the famous American sci-fi and horror writer, the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival showcases shorts and features of the macabre, fantastical and bizarre. After a dinner at the nearby, Victorian-themed Whale & Ale at 5 p.m., the three-day fest officially kicks off at 7 p.m. with......

Friday, Sept. 20 This weekend, Laemmle's Monica 4 screens three short films by Brock Mullins, which have made the festival rounds and garnered a few awards along the way. Each one features a classical piano soundtrack performed by Mullins. In The Highway, for instance, the muted argument of a man......

Friday, Sept. 13 The New Beverly Cinema is showing two of Sarah Polley's films back-to-back, beginning at 7:30 p.m. In the documentary Stories We Tell, Polley navigates her own family's secrets. Then, in Polley's first feature as director, Away from Her, we follow the marriage of a retired couple (played......