Sci-fi movies, we all know, create unlikely heroes, and this summer's no exception.   Remember Brad Pitt as a U.N. inspector in "World War Z"? He just wanted to hang at home...

Tom Hanks didn't know where the cameras were.   "Captain Phillips," a based-on-a-true-story tale about a cargo ship taken by Somali pirates, was Hanks' first time working...

We're all being watched. All the time.    That's a key message of "Closed Circuit," an entertaining and well-crafted if not overly heart-stopping British conspiracy...

"You're Next" is a nasty little slasher film that starts poorly but gets better once most of the cast has been butchered.   Indie film figures Joe Swanberg and Ti West play two...

Wong Kar-wai swears he's seen people fly.   The acclaimed Hong Kong director crossed China meeting 100 kung fu masters as research for "The Grandmaster," his new film about...

Film fans everywhere can identify that movie-trailer voice: A booming baritone that entices viewers with cryptic explanations of the latest upcoming epic.   The business behind such voice...

It's not the end of the world, but "The World's End" marks a creative conclusion for Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright.   For the British trio behind "Shaun of...

"You hear nothing. You see nothing. You only serve." Such are the instructions Cecil Gaines receives as he embarks on his daunting new job at the Eisenhower White House in "Lee...

China Cultural Centre and Santa Lucija Local Council will be holding the China Summer Film Festival 2013 at the Greek Theatre, Santa Lucija at 8pm on 30 and 31 August and on 1...

The outlaw romance "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is a lyrical, sepia-toned folk tale, awash in 1970s filmmaking and the kind of stylized folksiness that pickling Brooklyn hipsters with...