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'The Bay' Aspires to YouTube

Auteur goes amateur in Barry Levinson's found-footage, eco-horror cheapie

Top 15 Teen Movie Music Moments

​Teen movies, in general, have great music. I don't know how that is, but when you think about it, teenagers take music more seriously than any other demographic I can think of, so if you're making a movie by/for them, it's gotta have a great soundtrack. Some of the choices may be silly, but, the ... More >>

K. Flay Talks Beginnings, Book Reports, And Hamburgers

Courtesy Bailey Blues​Kristine Flaherty (better known by musical moniker K. Flay) isn't your average rapper-singer-songwriter. After graduating from Stanford with degrees in psychology and sociology, she decided to take her then-hobby of writing and performing music more seriously. Besides the occ ... More >>

'Video Dada' at UCI is a Vast, Quirky Sampling of the Aesthetic Potential of Video

5 More NBFF Recommendations (and 4 Other Ones)

Here's the thing about several films screening at the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30: many entries have been shown at earlier festivals in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Since the Weekly is part of a chain with papers in ... More >>

Film Pick of the Weekend: Digital Filmmaking by Mike Figgis

I'm writing this while taking a break from a particularly arduous experimentation with Apple's iMovie '08 program. Despite being billed as extremely user friendly for the casual home filmmaker, I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to do things that I think should be pretty basic. Basically, I can ... More >>