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...

While violin virtuoso Dr. Lakshiminarayana Subramaniam is known for his experimental fusion of music from cultures across the globe, his roots are in south Indian classical music. Read more...

Exactly a week ago, I saw Alexander Payne’s “Sideways,” which opened with exceptionally rave reviews ““ mostly because it’s a great film, and partly because movie critics are old people who identify all too painfully with its themes of mid-life insecurities. Read more...