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L.A.-based photographer Jason Knight is bringing a new view of the dangerous stretch of roadway to light: Its chilling vehicle graveyard.

Warmer temperatures did little to dull the mood for FYF Fest day two, which featured the likes of MGMT, My Bloody Valentine, Washed Out, Flume and many others.

Dust be damned, day one of FYF Fest was blast. The near-capacity crowd filled L.A. State Historic Park near downtown for hours of music and comedy on Saturday, featuring the likes of TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Simian Mobile Disco and Toro y Moi—among many, many others.

Museum Hours is a work whose ruminations and observations are always expressed with candor. Though it focuses on the lives of ordinary people, it's not condescending.

Sometimes all a guy needs is to get away from the hustle and bustle, and spend some quality time with his fellow man. That's the premise of the latest film by David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche, but the same could easily be said of Green's supposed return to form after his forays in mainstream filmmaking.

By looking back to the past to the dawn of the Information Age, Computer Chess holds a mirror to our present era of alienation and paranoia. We're bombarded with unlimited data, but we're still lost and wandering.

When the names Errol Morris and Werner Herzog are both listed as executive producers, you know The Act of Killing is not an ordinary documentary. Director Joshua Oppenheimer's latest film is undoubtedly the most disturbing film of 2013. The Act of Killing focuses on Anwar Congo, one of the self-proclaimed "gangsters" who executed over a million suspected Communists and ethnic Chinese in Indonesia during the bloodbath of 1965-66.

Tilikum, affectionately known as "Tilly," is a six-ton male killer whale and the subject of a new documentary from the nascent CNN Films.

We took on the challenge of figuring out your food, so all you have to focus on is making it to every panel on time.

Despite brutally hot temperatures and a sprawling new home, Southern California's own hippy/party festival Lightning in a Bottle pulled out all the stops yet again in its fifth year running this past weekend in Temecula. The Do LaB-sponsored music and arts festival moved from a Memorial Day slot in past years to a scorching mid-July slot to the pain and pleasure of everyone attending.