Dominic Marziali

In an interview with The Daily Californian at BAMPFA, McDormand talked about what "Women Talking" accomplishes, both on- and off-screen, as well as the reasons herself, producer Dede Gardner and director Sarah Polley have sought out discussions with students.

Predictably unpredictable, the festival’s 95-film lineup comprises names big, small and overall niche. This year, deputy arts editor Dominic Marziali and arts reporters Maida Suta, Emma Murphree and Piper Samuels covered the festival online and in person.

In its booze-addled worship of cinema, “Babylon” loses sight of its north star, turning a story about the victims of excess into excess itself and becoming spectacularly tone deaf to the context surrounding it.

Perhaps the single most unifying theme running through Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is Nan Goldin’s own commitment to collectivity.

They give everything to a crowd that seeks them out, a night to remember in technicolor.

The inaugural This Ain’t No Picnic music festival played host, at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, to a wide array of Los Angeles’ favored indie darlings on Aug. 27 and 28.

It’s astonishing how good a bad movie can make Brad Pitt look.

The show demonstrated that the power of a Pixar film comes in its no-frills approach to universal growing pains.

"Nope" is an imaginative sci-fi that dips in and out of the Western, layering the grit of a family way out west with the extraterrestrial, the impossible.

It’s a scattered, raw, honest approach to the scenes playing out in Lamar’s head and beyond.