The Iranian Short Film Festival winners announced in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian community in the world outside of Iran itself, has evolved into a central showcase for that country’s arts and culture community, especially Tehran’s vibrant filmmaking scene. A recurring event on the calendar, the 8th annual Iranian Short Film Festival, sponsored by the Farhang Foundation, culminated this past weekend

10 biggest box office flops

Hollywood is home to one of the biggest film industries on earth. Some of the movies born there are captivating, emotionally-charged masterpieces which cause you to reflect on your own life and propel their respective cast members into stardom. Then, there are the box office flops — those movies which have been almost completely propagated

TIFF winners include La La Land, Free Fire and I Am Not Your Negro

The Toronto International Film Festival wound up this weekend and today the winners were announced. Ten days of screenings, special public events, master classes, question and answer sessions, red carpets, parties,junkets and people watching have come to a close. TIFF’s Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced the best of the best today at TIFF Bell

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Sole Proprietor: Review

Dan Eberle plays Crowley from the internet in this sparsely plotted spy thriller, with Alexandra Hellquist the high priced prostitute Sophie who he visits early on in the movie. The first 15 minutes is wasted on this faux sexual encounter. The viewer hopes things will get better, but they do not. A Honduran drug cartel

Don’t Breathe scares up $26.1million at box office

Don’t Breathe scared up a winning $26.1million at the box office this weekend. Screen Gems’ frightener only cost $10million to make so will make excellent profits for Sony by the time it finishes its run, one reason the genre is so popular with studios. Suicide Squad spent three weeks at the number one spot, despite its lukewarm reviews.

Tom Holland and Joel Kinnaman’s freezing ordeal making Edge of Winter

Just in time for the heat wave that covers most of North America comes the wilderness thriller Edge of Winter — set in the coldest, most dangerous heart of cold. Elliot Baker (Joel Kinnaman) is the estranged father of two boys, Caleb (Percy Hynes White) and Bradley (Tom Holland), whose ex-wife is leaving for a

2 Lava 2 Lantula: Huge fire-breathing tarantulas run riot in Florida

Forget sharks and tornadoes, tonight it’s all about volcanic tarantulas as the sequel to last summer’s Lavalantula hits our screens — in 2 Lava 2 Lantula! While the pesky fire-breathing arachnids took their unique brand of horror to the streets of LA last year, this year they’re headed to the beach in Florida and it’s not going to be pretty. The

Review: Suicide Squad

For those familiar with the DC Comics universe, it may come as a surprise to some that the Suicide Squad get a feature film before more notable and recognizable characters like Wonder Woman (Coming in 2018), the Flash (also coming in 2018) or even Hawkman. But given all of Warner Bros. failings to deliver a

Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont auctions rare memorabilia

Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile director Frank Darabont is selling a collection of rare comic book and movie memorabilia at auction. It includes original works by some of the best comic book artists of all time as well as prized movie posters, including the only known Frankenstein 1941 Italian “4-fogli”, or four-sheet. Darabont’s collection is the first half