By Steven Zeitchik
Franco points the finger at writers for why many of his bits fell flat, including the Marilyn Monroe drag routine.
By Steven Zeitchik
Devotees of the Asif Kapadia documentary about race-car driver Ayrton Senna may be able to turn the movie into crossover phenomenon.
By Susan King, Los Angeles Times
A UCLA retrospective of key films reflects how the music and dancing craze swept through pop culture in the late '70s before crashing just...
By Steve Harvey, Los Angeles Times
They were once so hot that some had cameo roles in movies, but modern times caught up with them.
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times
A few years ago, Eugenio Derbez, Mexico's most popular comic actor, got some well-meaning advice from a Hollywood executive that still makes...
By Cristy Lytal, Special to the Los Angeles Times
When it comes to surviving a jump off the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, it helps to have Pete Swan on your team.
By Allan M. Jalon, Special to the Los Angeles Times
An 18th century novel doesn't seem like an obvious inspiration for a documentary about a chimpanzee in a modern scientific experiment, but...
By Dennis Lim, Special to the Los Angeles Times
The most significant figure in all of postwar Soviet cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky died in 1986 at age 54, leaving behind only seven features,...
By Noel Murray, Special to the Los Angeles Times
The Lincoln Lawyer
By Amy Kaufman
Rupert Grint talks life after "Harry Potter" and more.
By Mark Olsen
In "Vacation!," four college girlfriends reunite for a week at the beach, but things turn sour after an ill-fated acid trip.
By Steven Zeitchik
Screenwriter John Francis Daley is given a kind of sideways pop-culture immortality as Sam Weir, the likably normal kid at the center of...