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...

Some movies set out to be so ambitious they run the risk of collapsing in on their own expectations. Unfortunately, “World War Z” seems to perfectly fit into this category. Read more...