The Anaheim WonderCon took place this past weekend, March 16-18, and featured appearances by Hollywood stars such as Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Kristen Stewart, director Ridley Scott, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.

But some of the most interesting sights of WonderCon were the plethora of innovative cosplay outfits worn by...

With Sundance just wrapped, the center of the film festival universe has shifted to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which is in the midst of annual star-studded event this week. The line-up includes the U.S. premiere of The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, one of the surprise hits of...

As the Sundance Film Festival gets underway this week, the neighboring Slamdance Film Festival kicks off its 18th edition in Park City as well. This writer was there for the first Slamdance Film Festival in 1995, when a small group of the festival's founding filmmakers were screening their films in...

Documentary filmmaking and 3D technology make for a natural marriage, as the intimacy and visual depth of 3D provides the viewer with a more complete immersion into the world of the documentary subject than 2D is generally capable of. As more filmmakers of note test the waters of 3D non-fiction...

For those who were shocked, shocked about Anthony Weiner's behavior, they were perhaps among those who never read the critically-acclaimed novel I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (wildly inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans. The satirical novel by Dan Mirvish and Eitan Gorlin that came out in November, 2009, from...

As she says later in our interview, Hilary Duff likes a good challenge. The number of former child and teen stars who manage to sustain their success into their twenties, as Duff undeniably has, are few enough already,...

Journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was tragically killed today in Libya. I interviewed Hetherington twice during the past year, along with Sebastian Junger, for Restrepo, the Oscar-nominated documentary they co-directed while embedded with...

Gaspard Ulliel, above. Photo by Nora Schaefer, used with permission.

While playing a French historical character with the nickname of "le Balafré," or "the Scarred," in his new film The Princess of Montpensier, actor Gaspard Ulliel also risked his own famous features during the...