If your inner 10-year-old rejoices at the thought of monsters fighting robots, then “Pacific Rim” is the film for you. “Pacific Rim” is Guillermo del Toro’s childhood fantasy brought to life, and the director has said he hopes it will reintroduce the Kaiju genre popular in the ’50s (“Kaiju” literally translates to “strange beasts”) to a new generation. Read more...

The true horror fan has been currently subjected to a great scare depression. Studios continue to pump out cliche and moronic horror films filled with minimal, cheap scares and stories that provide no depth to this revered genre. Read more...

Here’s a look at some of the most anticipated films fighting for the weekly crown in the months before fall quarter. Read more...

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Watching “Maniac” feels like a descent into psychosis. In this fresh remake of William Lustig’s 1980s horror cult classic “Maniac,” director Franck Khalfoun revives the slasher genre with point-of-view filming and a new take on the killer profile. Read more...

Photo: Elijah Wood performs the role of Frank in his new horror film “Maniac.”

When a group of graduate students are brought together for a social experiment, it’s not long before they realize their participation is not their only commonality. Read more...

Photo: Director Matt Russak and actor Joshua Koopman work on set in the production of “doubleblind,” the first pilot made by a graduate program.

As an undergraduate student working in a video store, Andrew deWaard came across Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 crime caper “Out of Sight.” Read more...

Photo: Andrew deWaard, a doctoral candidate at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, released his book on prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s body of work titled “The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape” this May.

It’s been 12 long years since audiences first met the one-eyed green monster Mike Wazowski and the adorably scary James P. Sullivan, “Sulley,” of “Monsters, Inc.” and if anyone can pull off the combination of sequel and prequel that is “Monsters University,” it’s the dynamic duo of Disney and Pixar. Read more...