“Because I Said So” Director Michael Lemann Universal Pictures In a role that comes far too easily and often for her, Diane Keaton once again plays the overbearing and high-strung mother in “Because I Said So.” In this case, Keaton’s (Daphne) target is her youngest daughter Milly, played by first-a-singer, now-an-actress Mandy Moore. Read more...

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Click here to vote for your favorite film in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award competition. A man with a vision. $7,500. Coke. These ingredients could wind up a recipe for success for UCLA film student Austin Formato. Read more...

“Factory Girl” Director George Hickenlooper The Weinstein Company She was the epitome of an “It Girl” ““ cool and careless. In the mid-1960s, Edie Sedgwick, the trust-fund baby turned style icon turned drug addict was inseparable from artist Andy Warhol. Read more...

Sometimes leaving home is the best way to learn to love it. When Silverlake songstresses the Watson Twins, Chandra and Leigh Watson, were still alternative kids from Kentucky considering moving out to Los Angeles to make it as musicians, the last thing they wanted was to be associated with country. Read more...

X-Factor #15 By Peter David and Pablo Raimondi MARVEL COMICS Despite consisting only of still illustrations and dialogue bubbles, Peter David’s “X-Factor” manages to bring just the right amount of television sensibility to what could have just been yet another Marvel comic starting with “X.” A veteran writer of television, David finally seems to be telling the cinematic stories he always wanted without being crippled by an effects budget or the limited viewership of a cult audience. Read more...

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