'La Leyenda Negra': Film Review | Sundance 2020

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Justin Bieber still doesn’t really get the credit he’s earned. The string of celebrity relationships, the bad-boy behaviour, the tattoos and ever-evolving hair styles and hues — all these things have had a tendency to distract from the obvious, which is: That boy can sing.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Gentefied, Netflix's new series about a Mexican-American family from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, is a painstakingly crafted love letter to that specific Latinx community. Described as a rich tapestry of the neighborhood by its creators Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez, Gentefied was originally an anthology-style web series following seven different characters struggling to navigate the gentrification of Boyle Heights.

The Sun Valley Film Festival and Ford, a three-time partner of the five-day event, have announced the Ford Pitch Fest, a new initiative where producers will have a chance to pitch their project to receive a $25,000 producers grant.

Getting the last laugh! Cats costars James Corden and Rebel Wilson had no problem with poking fun at their own film during the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday, February 9.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – The vibe of Netflix’s “Locke and Key” is best described in Netflix terms.

It's early February and we're already up to our second broadcast drama about an unlikely candidate elevated to lead Los Angeles law enforcement, with both shows using the same conflict — the threat of ICE encroaching on local authorities — to illustrate that our main characters may be authoritarian, but they're authoritarian with an empathetic edge!Who says there are no new ideas in Hollywood?CBS' drama Tommy, about the first female head of the LAPD, is at least better than Fox's Deputy, about

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – On the scale of damage that a devil-doll superheroine can cause, breaking a man’s legs doesn’t sound all that extreme. Yet when Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), the vengeful sister-of-mayhem in “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” breaks legs, she does it with a certain hellbent je ne sais quoi.

At one point, a character in the Los Angeles-set feature Wander Darkly wonders what it was they did to deserve "spending an eternity on the 10 freeway." The line is funnier when you realize that, on one level, that's what might literally be happening in this dreamy drama about a character recently killed in a car crash, hovering on the porch of the afterlife, not quite ready to cross over.The fourth feature by writer-director Tara Miele (anorexia drama Starving in Suburbia, as well as that

The green sea turtle receives its giant-screen close-up in the strikingly photographedTurtle Odyssey 3D, which follows a well-traveled educational/inspirational template for Imax nature films.

One of the women at the centre of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial has been accused of repeatedly lying to the producer in a bid to exploit his Hollywood connections.

By Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka

Like many a Los Angeles origin story, We Are Hear's starts with Courtney Love. In the early 2000s, Love was working on songs for a never-released album with songwriter-producers Linda Perry and Kerry Brown — who didn't realize they were working on the same project until their respective wives introduced them over dinner.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Fly-on-the-wall portraits of pop-music stars used to be dominated by, you know, pop music. The life and personality and woe-is-me-I’m-caught-in-the-media-fishbowl spectacle of the star herself was part of the equation, yet all that stuff had a way of dancing around the edges.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – It’s a wonder that Stephanie Patrick makes it to the end of “The Rhythm Section” alive. Normal people tend not to survive the kind of sophisticated revenge mission that snaps Stephanie out of her depression and into action-hero mode in Reed Morano’s dark, broody and unexpectedly human payback thriller, which stars Blake Lively as a more-motivated-than-coordinated Post Traumatic Suffering Dispenser.

Zoey Tur's reign as Los Angeles' preeminent eye-in-the-sky helicopter reporter preceded my own arrival here, but her presence in the semi-recent run of documentaries tied to the O.J. Simpson trial and to the L.A.

Edson Oda had a comfortable career working in advertising in São Paulo, Brazil. He'd created hit campaigns for the likes of Whirlpool, Honda, Nokia and Johnson & Johnson.

Yesterday's pop sensation inevitably becomes tomorrow's nostalgia. But if your impressions of The Go-Go's are formed largely by their enduring karaoke-lounge popularity, or by the campy image of the five band members water-skiing on the cover of their Vacation album, like chorines in an Esther Williams movie, then it's good to be reminded that these erstwhile badasses were spawned out of the Los Angeles punk scene.