The Soloist (movie)

Filmmaker with a badge is inspired by the streets he patrols

2013-03-30 16:10:00

The movie crew scurried to set up camera dollies and lights in the lobby of the faded Baltimore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The scene to be filmed at the 113-year-old lodging house at the corner of 5th and Los Angeles streets would depict a good...

Participant Media hopes more filmgoers will get its messages

2013-03-13 05:00:00

In "Snitch," a thriller set in the dangerous drug world, Dwayne Johnson plays a father who goes to work as a drug informant to free his jailed son. The PG-13 film from Participant Media features a street fight, a car chase and a gun battle — high-...

WikiLeaks movie 'The Fifth Estate' starts production

2013-01-23 16:44:00

DreamWorks Studios has begun filming the “The Fifth Estate,” a movie about the controversial founder of WikiLeaks. The film, which will be released in the U.S. on Nov. 15 through Disney's Touchstone label, began principal photography last week...

Review: 'Lost Angels' documents struggles on L.A.'s Skid Row

2012-12-06 17:40:00

"Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home" is an absorbing, at times heartbreaking look at several former and current denizens of downtown L.A.'s Skid Row, a 50-block area that one observer here respectfully calls "an open asylum for the mentally ill." As the...

Storytelling on L.A.'s skid row

2012-12-05 04:27:00

Once a week for the last several years, I've driven to skid row to visit a friend. I get depressed about the area at times because it's such a depository of the unfortunate and the forgotten. But then I'll catch a warm greeting, or see a sign of hope in...

Motion picture academy invites 176 new members

2012-06-29 13:28:00

This post has been updated, as indicated below. The� Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 176 new members into the organization on Friday, including Octavia Spencer, Terrence Malick, Matthew McConaughey, Kristen Wiig, Kerry Washington,...

The greatest L.A. movies? We have 140, and shrinking...

2011-12-04 06:00:00

On Location: Skid row finds new home in 'Lost Angels' documentary

2011-10-11 21:33:33

Is 'The Social Network's' view of Harvard's final clubs hopelessly outdated?

2010-10-01 21:32:51

Will Paul Thomas Anderson direct Pynchon adaptation?

2010-12-02 16:33:53

Robert Downey Jr. starring in Steven Spielberg's 'Harvey' remake?

2009-09-30 04:33:07

PEN Center USA awards fete Elmore Leonard

2009-12-03 16:33:30

MOVIES Money-saving clubs aren't just for supermarkets, they're for cinemas too. The Laemmle Sneak Preview Club (www.laemmle.com) offers free monthly screenings from its selection of art-house fare. Being a member of the First Weekend Club (www.bherc.

2009-03-20 15:35:25