No one has e-mailed me about this specifically, but I have had numerous people in the last week or so ask me two general questions in person: 1. Read more...

Whenever I need to apologize to someone, I look to acting guru and personal role model Lindsey Lohan. See, there’s a famous scene in the epic, monumental and ground-breaking movie “Mean Girls” where Lohan plays the main character, Cady Heron, and apologizes at prom to all the girls in her school for an entire school year of smack-talking and gossip. Read more...

Everything is politics. And in the glamorous industry of filmmaking, sometimes it’s not just what you do or how well you do it; it’s mainly who you know. Read more...

For writer and director Quentin Lee, the reason for screening his film’s world premiere at AFI FEST was simple. “Once you launch a film in Los Angeles, that’s it,” said Lee. Read more...

It’s not every day you see effeminate goth rockers in leather pants open for The Flaming Lips. But such was the vibe at All Tomorrow’s Parties, a two-day rock festival on Nov. Read more...

Niels Mueller had nothing to do with his film being screened at AFI FEST. After premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and securing nationwide release in January in addition to a Los Angeles release in late December (just in time for Oscar eligibility), “The Assassination of Richard Nixon” has bigger fish to fry. Read more...

Against all odds, they didn’t muck it up ““ not entirely at least. In the doomed world of sequels and their accompanying unrealistically high expectations, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” proves to be a distant second to the 2001 classic. Read more...