Kenneth Turan is the film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR's Morning Edition, as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post and TV Guide, and served as the Times' book review editor.
A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he is the co-author of Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. He teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC and is on the board of directors of the National Yiddish Book Center. His most recent books are the University of California Press' Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made and Never Coming To A Theater Near You, published by Public Affairs Press.
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Four years ago, 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped in deep, dark tunnels during heavy rains in Thailand....
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In Jason Bourne, the latest in the secret agent series starring Matt Damon, director Paul Greengrass presents a thriller relevant...
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Japanese dramas don't get the publicity of that country's animated films but our reviewer says there is a new drama...
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Fifty Shades of Grey is an R-rated fairy tale, a kind of Cinderella tale with restraints. It's about as believable...
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If you know science fiction filmmaking, you know the name Wachowski. Siblings Larry and Lana Wachowski have been working in...
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The new documentary is not a film about Soviet-era military machines. It is the story of the legendary Soviet hockey...
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Michael Mann's new cybercrime thriller stars Chris Hemsworth. Mann's skill as a director holds the audience's attention as the team...
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If I Stay is based on the best-selling novel by Gayle Forman. Chloë Grace Moretz plays a 17-year-old girl, in...
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Begin Again is the latest effort by John Carney. This film and his previous Once have so much in common...
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It is a new animated film from Japan. It is stunning, as beautiful a hand-drawn animated feature as you are...
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The story of Jack and his beanstalk has been filmed innumerable times by people as diverse as Gene Kelly, Chuck...
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Bill Murray plays Franklin D. Roosevelt in the new movie Hyde Park on Hudson. Critic Kenneth Turan says Murray's work...