Festivals

We are reaching peak crazy. There are two possible outcomes. We get trampled or the rest of us wake up and start fighting the people who are trying to stifle free speech.

Day 2 of the Festival featured a special screening of the brilliant kung fu classic 'My Young Auntie.'

Would you be incarcerated to fight injustice?

Do right-wingers have a sense of humor? You'd be less surprised to both laugh and survive at the Anthem Film Festival.

"Olympic Price, American Predjudice" explores the real story behind the 1936 Olympics, Hitler and 18 African Americans who represented the Olympic Team USA.

There seems to be a new meme in indie film: scary ladies. “Danger: Crazy Lady Ahead” award goes to a pair of films shown at the Dances With Films Festival.

In Ari Taub's new film "79 Parts," premiered at this year's Soho Film Festival, we rediscover New York City of the 1970s before cell phones, Uber, and "If you see something say something."

I caught up with the creator of web series "Quirky Female Protagonist" at this year's LA Film Festival. She shared her secrets with me.

The new dramedy "Don’t Think Twice" begins as if it’s a documentary on how to do improv. Then the members of the fictional improv group, The Commune, violate all the rules in their improv dire results, in their personal lives.

'Creedmoria', a film by first-time writer/director Alicia Slimmer, made its SoCal premier at the Dances With Films Festival. It chronicles the efforts of sweet-sixteen Candy Cahill, played by Stef Dawson, to come of age in one of the most dysfunctional families in movie history. As I watched the film, I hoped, for Slimmer’s sake, that this movie wasn’t too autobiographical. It turns out that it was.