There are several different pathways through the great swath of cinema unspooling this week at the City of Light, City of Angels French Film Festival. Running April 23 through 30 at the Directors Guild of America Theater, with TV series, shorts, digital series and virtual-reality experiences supple..

“How did you do that so fast,” Beyoncé asked, impressed that a fan showed up to her headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday night decked out in the sorority themed garb inspired by her set. That a fan showed up in a homemade homage to an outfit they saw just a...

In the newly released comedy “Godard Mon Amour,” Michel Hazanavicius’ playful flashback to France in the fateful year of 1968, a young Jean-Luc Godard (played by Louis Garrel) marches with an enormous crowd in Paris. Alongside him is the critic and filmmaker Michel Cournot, whose “Les Gauloises...

CB1 Gallery, which began life in a storefront space at the downtown L.A. intersection of 5th and Spring streets in 2010 and now inhabits a more polished Arts District space on Santa Fe Avenue, will shut its doors next month. “Unfortunately, expanding into the current space along with the slow sales..

At the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, hip-hop has most certainly reigned supreme. Rap acts occupied a large swath of real estate in this year’s lineup with Eminem and young voices such as Post Malone, Migos and Tyler, the Creator billed high. But two weeks of catching sets in the desert..

Verne Troyer, the 32-inch tall actor who delighted legions of fans with his comically wicked portrayals of Mini-Me, the pint-sized foil to comedian Mike Myers in the “Austin Powers” spy movie sendups, died Saturday. He was 49. His death was announced on his official Facebook page, in a statement...

Once again, a distributor chose to hold back a film from reviewers that turns out to be better than its peek-a-boo marketing strategy implied. That movie, “Traffik,” is an effective weekend-from-hell thriller with a vital message, a terrific lead performance by Paula Patton and some unexpectedly...