AFI Fest is unique in the festival ecosystem for not being tied quite as directly into the awards season conversation as other fall festivals: Certainly, as always, there are many top Oscar contenders ...

Lady Gaga is dancing on a human skull. Lady Gaga is buried in a shallow grave. Lady Gaga is serenading a corpse. Lady Gaga is also teetering around on crutches, cavorting with zombies and crossing the ...

But she doesn’t create in spite of it — at The Mayhem Ball she turns it into a character of its own, the vengeful Phantom that haunts the Opera Haus of her design. Throughout the show she tussles with ...

During Poker Face, the two sides face each other on a giant chess board; as Gaga is confronted by a doppelgänger dressed head-to-toe in face-obscuring lace (a nod to the star's 2010 Brit Awards outfit ...