Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing is wonderful," but "Star Trek Into Darkness" proves her wrong.
Director J.J. Abrams' second adventure with the crew of the Starship Enterprise revolves around a bad guy who looks like a normal Starfleet agent but is superhuman in his powers and subhuman, or at least monstrous, in his willingness t
"The Great Gatsby" puts the work of a great American writer onscreen with precision and élan. Unfortunately, that writer is Woody Allen. In a classic humor piece called "A Twenties Memory," Allen satirized the glamour of the self-destructive "Lost Generation," recalling the night "Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda returned home from the
The sun has set on the 2013 Newport Beach Film Festival.
The 14th annual gathering concluded Thursday night with record-matching attendance, the West Coast premiere of "The Way, Way Back," and a festive closing-night party. Award winners chosen by a jury and audience members were announced Friday.
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Fabio. Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Adam Brody. Leighton Meester. Alfred Molina.
Several of "The Real Housewives of Orange County," past and present.
These are just a handful of the celebrities who showed up during the eight-day Newport Beach Film Festival, which concluded Thursday with the feature film, "The Way, Way Back," fo
Doug Hamilton wanted to help his friends in the theater out. Little did he know that he'd wind up helping himself out in the process.
Hamilton's documentary, "Broadway Idiot," is the opening night film of this year's Newport Beach Film Festival, which starts Thursday and runs through May 2. The movie, making its West Coast premiere, scre
Catherine Jayasuriya had a dream.
She dreamed that one day, she'd climb to the top of Mt. Kinabalu, the highest point on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. She dreamed she'd be accompanied by a bunch of others wearing red shirts with white print and holding banners, and they would be raising money and awareness for Duchenne, a fatal type of
It's hard to believe, but the homegrown Vietnamese International Film Festival is already 10 years old.
What started in October 2003 with a group of local Vietnamese Americans screening a handful of previously released films for friends, family and the curious public has blossomed into a full-fledged international film fest, with multipl
Orange County's largest and longest-running film festival is getting ready to dim the lights and run the projectors once again.
The Newport Beach Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 14th annual gathering, April 25-May 2. Organizers are planning to screen more than 350 films from 50 countries, including a number of world, U.S.
One of Asia's top film festivals is serving as the inspiration once again for a similar gathering of cinephiles in Orange County.
The Busan West Film Festival makes its third appearance at Chapman University in Orange, Friday through Sunday. Students and professors from Chapman's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts have selected highlig
The Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) announced on Friday the lineup for its sixth biennial gathering, April 4-7 and April 11-14.
The wrestling action/drama "Beyond the Mat," directed by Van M. Pham, will open the film fest at 6 p.m. April 4 at Edwards University Town Center 6 in Irvine. An opening gala reception will follow
The long-awaited museum dedicated to Southern California's most iconic industry – Hollywood – is in production, but you'll have to wait a few years, till 2016. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be dedicated to the history and future of film. Housed in the landmark May Company Wilshire building, it will be part of the neighbo
Edward Patrick Alva never thought a summer internship would lead to an Oscar nomination.
In 2010, the UC Irvine graduate started his internship at Chain Camera Pictures, an independent, Silver Lake-based film company. He started doing administrative tasks and getting coffee, but his strong work ethic and technical skills caught the atten
With starring roles in "Zombieland," "Easy A," "Crazy, Stupid, Love" and "The Amazing Spider-man," Emma Stone is one of the coolest young actresses working today. No one would dispute that she is a woman of her time.
But director Ruben Fleischer, who first directed her in the aforementioned "Zombieland," apparently saw something differen
You may not know who Jessica Chastain is right now, but wait a few days.Although she appeared in six movies in 2011, including an Oscar-nominated turn in "The Help," the actress has managed to fly under the Hollywood radar. That no doubt will end when audiences see "Zero Dark Thirty," in which she stars as the tough CIA agent who led the