To Live and Write in LA

The Last Days on Mars grabs you right at the beginning and doesn't let go. It is a text book example of how to make a sci-fi thriller.

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jered Leto, Dallas Buyers Club chronicles the quest of real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof.

“What the suits want isn't always the same as what the fans want,” explained screenwriter and author Marc Zicree at the October meeting of the Los Angeles based Alameda Writers Group (AWG).

There are two ways that films illuminate difficult truths about growing up; painfully, and charmingly as is done in "Let Me Out."

It would be unfair to say that Argento’s Dracula 3-D was the worst adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they'll kill you. -- Oscar Wilde

Like Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, the heroes of both The Pilgrim and Silver Circle see something they shouldn't have and this starts them on the road to thought-crimes and more.

Sick and Sicker explores the Canadian health care system and reiterates many of the traditional slams against socialized medicine.

Socrates would be proud.

Two approaches to serving up the truth were offered on Thursday, July 11, at the Anthem Film Festival.