When Lakeview Terrace hit theaters in 2008, many viewers were struck by its unsettling portrayal of a Los Angeles police officer terrorizing his new neighbors — a seemingly extreme fictional scenario.

Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed reality-TV producer from ...

Los Angeles brush fires rage in the distance as the opening credits roll in "Lakeview Terrace," and it doesn't take much imagination to guess that the fires are going to get closer as the movie, ah, ...