Alex O’Flinn has seen “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” over 50 times since he started editing it, yet he was never the same person for each viewing.

Tucked in the middle of an unassuming Westwood block, Marilyn Monroe still holds court. Some visit her to leave a sentimental note, a stuffed animal or flowers.

The five finalists for the 2014 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, which accepts screenplays, teleplays and stage plays and is open to all UC students, were announced Tuesday.

Sundance NEXT FEST brings together a collection of visually striking independent films at the Ace Hotel’s theater in Los Angeles. From zombie love stories to a short film based on Kendrick Lamar’s “good kid, m.A.A.d.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) ranked third place in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 list of film schools this week, moving up one spot from last year.

For all their beer-soaked, neon-splattered glory, college movies are rarely told from the point of view of a traditional frat house. When “classic college films” come to mind, they summon images of dorky social climbers, a la “Revenge of the Nerds,” or outcasts and riffraff, a la “Animal House.”
“Neighbors,” directed by Nicholas Stoller, the man behind “Get Him to the Greek” and “The Five-Year Engagement,” presents a glimpse into the oft-unseen world of social frat houses.

Bollywood Bites specializes in Indian cuisine, but its owner and head chef Sanjay Patel’s cooking style has drawn from and reached places as disparate as Panama, Bombay and Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.

Few genres evoke sympathy for protagonists with insatiable bloodlust the way revenge movies do. Utterly
unrealistic and dementedly satisfying, revenge films capture a simplistic desire for a world in which the weak successfully punish the powerful, preserving justice in the face of evil.

Supernatural horror movies have gone stale. Following the “Paranormal Activity” craze, imitators have flooded the market with cliché
jump scares, overdone mirror scenes and Asian-inspired female ghosts.

Laura Alsum struggled through writing sections of what would become her award-winning screenplay not as a result of a creative block, but because of the painful memories that resurfaced.