Ed Yerke-Robins

Disney banks on baby animals with their latest Earth Day extravaganza, Chimpanzee. In limited release, Toni Collette squares off with boy-genius son in Jesus Henry Christ!

'Juana roll up to the movies this 4/20? Cannabis cult classics abound, including Kingston crime & psychedelic animation at the Cinefamily. Then, the Festival of Film Noir returns to the darker corners of the Egyptian.

TGI Friday the 13th! Friends meet certain doom in The Cabin in the Woods, Escape from New York goes to space in Lockout and Discovery explores the tragedy of The Woman Who Wasn't There.

A wave of nineties nostalgia hits theaters this weekend, with American Reunion & James Cameron's raising his We Have a Pope!

UCLA's Student Chapter of the Association of Moving Image Archivists inaugurates a new 35mm screening series, Something Old, Something New, at the New Beverly. Elsewhere, local high schoolers reinvent Shakespeare and the first alt-Easter line-up.

Mirror Mirror is the first of two live-action Snow White films this year, while Wrath of the Titans emerges to wreak more 3D havoc. Between these two fractured fairy tales comes teen social documentary Bully.

The late Dino De Laurentiis' legacy as producer extraordinaire spans decades, continents and genres. This weekend, USC's Visions and Voices Initiative offers a fittingly epic tribute. Friday kicks off the festivities with a classic Italian cheese and beefcake buffet, when Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968) is paired with the original Conan the Barbarian (1982).

The Hunger Games' tagline is "The World Will Be Watching", which isn't that far off. Should you hunger for even more fighting this weekend, Indonesian actioner The Raid: Redemption promises wall-to-wall carnage.

Time to get out & enjoy springtime - by parking at the Aero or Downtown Independent for any of the road movies & concert docs screening this weekend!

The new 21 Jump Street is The Other Guys by way of Never Been Kissed. Then, it's acclaimed Israeli drama Footnote and slices of (sad) French life with The Kid With The Bike!

Viddy well! Alien invades Friday night, the American Cinematheque honors Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) & the Israel Film Festival is underway!

In this week's edition, to spruce up your day, we'll attack The Lorax in a Seussian way! Then it's teen boys run amok, the locally set-and-shot Monday Morning & the latest from Chow Yun-Fat.