'Whirlybird': Film Review | Sundance 2020

By Anthony D'Alessandro

Up-and-coming filmmaker Silvia Lara was named the recipient of the inauguralDeutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award at the opening of Frieze LA on Thursday, beating out nine other finalists for the $10,000 prize.The award, granted in partnership with the nonprofit academy Ghetto Film School, aims to recognize emerging Los Angeles-based filmmakers between the ages of 20 and 34 years old.

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.

If you weren't able to make it to Harry Styles' Fine Line kick-off shows at the Forum in Los Angeles in December, now you can re-live that experience you missed, courtesy of a 13-minute short film chronicling the singer's latest era.The movie mixes footage of Harry arriving at the iconic venue in his vintage yellow sports car with performance footage of "Watermelon Sugar," "Lights Up" and "Adore You" interwoven with heart-warming interviews with fans outside the building."I've never felt more

LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures said Tuesday that it will release the social satire “The Hunt,” a film it canceled in the wake of criticism about its premise of “elites” hunting people for sport in red states.

By Patrick Hipes

By Nellie Andreeva

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.

Aubrey Plaza brought out the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles to celebrate the not-so-obvious LGBTQ moments in films nominated for the 35th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards show on Saturday."Idina Menzel in Uncut Gems, J. Lo pole-dancing to Fiona Apple, FKA Twigs talking about snakes," the choir chanted over a somber piano track as the audience laughed.After hinting at Hustlers, Honey Boy, Waves, Luce, The Lighthouse, the choir also sang about nominees The Farewell, Judy and Parasite.

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.

By Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka

Chapman University has hired Stephen Galloway, executive editor at The Hollywood Reporter, as its new dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.Galloway, who has spent nearly three decades at THR in writing, editing and leadership roles, will begin his position at Chapman on March 30.At THRhe created the Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program, which pairs high school juniors from schools in South Central Los Angeles with top-level women in film and TV.

By Mike Fleming Jr

The world of basketball lost one of its finest legends, Kobe Bryant, on 26 January, bringing the world of sports to a standstill. The athlete died in a deadly helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old Gianna Bryant as well as seven others.