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Mostly British Film Festival highlights under-the-radar flicks

By: Anita Katz 02/01/12 5:05 PM
Ewan McGregor
The fourth annual Mostly British Film Festival gets rolling today, with neonoir dramas, an apocalyptic romance, a horror thriller, a dark sex comedy and documentaries new, old and very old on the bill. A wealth of English, Scottish, Irish and Australian styles, stories and talent is covered in 28 films screening  over eight days. Read More

Davis, Dujardin win lead honors at SAG awards

By: DAVID GERMAIN 01/29/12 8:16 AM
Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis
Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer were the maids of honor at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards, where their Deep South drama "The Help" won them acting prizes and earned the trophy for overall cast performance. Davis won as best actress and Spencer as supporting actress for "The Help," while Jean Dujardin was named best actor for the silent film "The Artist" and Christopher Plummer took the supporting-actor award for the father-son tale "Beginners." Read More

Hazanavicius wins at Directors Guild for 'Artist'

By: DAVID GERMAIN 01/28/12 9:04 AM
Michel Hazanavicius
The Directors Guild of America Awards are the latest Hollywood film honors to go silent. Hollywood's top filmmakers group presented its feature-film honor Saturday to Michel Hazanavicius for his silent film "The Artist," giving him the inside track for the best-director prize at the Academy Awards. Read More

Celebrity pot busts put tiny Texas county on map

By: JUAN CARLOS LLORCA 01/28/12 9:02 AM
Armie Hammer
Nestled among the few remaining businesses that dot a rundown highway in this dusty West Texas town stands what's become a surprise destination for marijuana-toting celebrities: the Hudspeth County Jail. Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and actor Armie Hammer have been among the thousands of people busted for possession at a Border Patrol checkpoint outside town in recent years, bringing a bit of notoriety to one of Texas' most sparsely populated counties. Read More

911 call reveals frantic efforts to help Moore

By: RAQUEL MARIA DILLON 01/28/12 1:18 AM
Demi Moore
A 911 recording revealed frantic efforts by friends of Demi Moore to get help for the actress who was convulsing as they gathered around her and tried to comfort her. Moore was "semi-conscious, barely," according to a female caller on the recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials. Read More

Screen Actors Guild votes to approve merger plan

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 9:24 PM
The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In a statement, SAG says the board voted 87 percent to 13 percent Friday for the proposed merger at its meeting in Los Angeles. Read More

Police commissioner: NYPD is good with Muslims

By: The Associated Press 01/27/12 10:33 AM
New York's police commissioner says a film that critics say paints Muslims in a bad light wasn't officially approved for NYPD training. At a news conference Friday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called the movie "The Third Jihad" inflammatory. But he said it was shown by mistake in a side room of a training center. He also defended the NYPD's record with the city's Muslim community. He called the relationship "excellent." Read More

Sundance doc examines costs of US war on drugs

By: SANDY COHEN 01/27/12 2:29 AM
Eugene Jarecki's documentary at the Sundance Film Festival looks at the cost of America's war on drugs — its social and human as well as financial cost. With "The House I Live In," the filmmaker takes a close-up look at the results of U.S. drug policy. Read More

Sundance doc examines costs of US war on drugs

By: SANDY COHEN 01/27/12 2:26 AM
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki focuses on America's war on drugs in his documentary in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Jarecki examines the social, human and financial costs of drug policies in "The House I Live In." Read More

Turkish state TV airs Holocaust film

By: SUZAN FRASER 01/27/12 1:06 AM
An epic French documentary about the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime has appeared on Turkish television to mark international Holocaust Remembrance Day — the first time the film has been aired on public television in a majority-Muslim country. State television TRT's documentary channel showed the first episode of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" late Thursday — the eve of the day of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. Read More
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