The Richard Stark novel “Flashfire” is reimagined for the big screen in “Parker,” a crime thriller starring Jason Statham as Parker and Jennifer Lopez as Leslie, a forty-year-old divorcee returning to the work force and struggling to make ends meet. Read more...

Photo: Jason Statham stars in the new action flick “Parker.” Directed by Taylor Hackford, the film is based on the popular book series of the same name by author Richard Stark.

With dual citizenship in the U.S. and in Greece, UCLA alumna Alethea Avramis finds a way to add dimension to her filmmaking while she is caught between two cultures. Read more...

Photo: The accomplishments of MFA Production/Directing candidate Alethea Avramis, who filmed her festival offering “The Foreigner” in her ancestral homeland of Greece, include the film’s nomination for Best International Short at Raindance in London. Her passion for film grew while she was an undergraduate at UCLA.

By most technical standards, Miguel Gomes’ “Tabu” is a film out of time. It’s shot in gauzy black and white, it’s framed in boxy Academy ratio, and the latter half of the film, titled “Paradise” and without dialogue, is devoted to a love story set in Portuguese-colonized Africa. Read more...

After shooting down a large hanging carcass in a dirt lot owned by a disillusioned hillbilly, played by none other than Johnny Knoxville, Sheriff Owens is soon shedding tears as he races to save the life of his ill-fated deputy. Read more...

Photo: When he says he’ll be back, he means it. In the action comedy “The Last Stand,” Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the big screen in a leading role for the first time since 2003.

After nearly a decade of absence from the big screen, Los Angeles’ very own Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his return to the silver screen in South Korean director Jee-woon Kim’s action thriller “The Last Stand.” Read more...

Photo: Former governor of California and action movie icon Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to star in the new film “The Last Stand.”

Kit Williamson has come a long way since his humble beginnings in Jackson, Miss., where he took summer classes in Shakespeare and performed in plays such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Macbeth.” “I was always thinking up stories and trying to explore things that were different from me and let my imagination run wild,” Williamson said. Read more...

Photo: Dramatic web series “EastSiders,” which premiered on Dec. 14, tells the story of a gay couple living in Silverlake who must deal with the effects of infidelity on their relationship.

January is notorious for releasing poor films to the year’s opening audience. Read more...