April Wolfe

The trailer for Henry Koster’s 1952 adaptation of My Cousin Rachel channels hysteria as the voice-over asks, “Was she woman or witch? Madonna or murderess?” Unfortunately, the film itself proved far tamer than the marketing suggested. The novel’s author, Daphne du Maurier, who also penned The Birds and the psychological......

Seeing a movie — or two — under the stars is the quintessential SoCal experience. Combine it with a picnic at the Mission Tiki Drive-In Theater and you'll be soaking in summer....

In writer-director Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night, a soul-crushingly dark examination of human nature amid an invisible and unnatural threat, human life remains intact in but one house in the forest, one with a blazingly red door secured with heavy brass locks....

Don't ever say that nothing good comes to the theaters here in Los Angeles, because Film Independent's L.A. Film Festival is about to bring a slew of the best new indie films to the city. This is your chance to see every hot movie out there before anyone else does,......

English 101 instructors sometimes combat plagiarism by having students read a piece and then write a summary from memory, in their own words. Most of the time, the resulting papers hit the beats of the originals, the paraphrased passages wallowing in humdrum vocabulary because the students haven’t yet developed their......

From A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night to The Bad Batch, director Ana Lily Amirpour isn't afraid to take risks. Her latest features A-list actors including Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi and Diego Luna....

In Robin Swicord's Wakefield, an adaptation of the late E.L. Doctorow's short story of the same name, disillusioned lawyer Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) chases a raccoon from his decrepit backhouse and … never returns. The story's not science fiction; Howard doesn't get swallowed by a black hole. He's still among......

Dr. Clifford V. Johnson is used to seeing raised eyebrows when he tells people he does science consulting for superhero movies. “Even colleagues of mine go, ‘I heard you worked on some superhero thing, but how could you even be talking to them about scientific accuracy when they have spaceships going faster than light and people flying?’”...