Author Archives: Amy Crocker

To Andrew Calara, “Snakes on a Plane” is more than just a summer movie. It’s his secret to victory. This past spring, Calara, a fourth-year computer science student, named his intramural Ultimate Frisbee team “Snakes on a Plane,” after the upcoming thriller film starring Samuel L. Jackson. Needless to say, Snakes on a Plane won […]

“My Super Ex-Girlfriend” Directed by Ivan Reitman 20TH CENTURY FOX In the beginning of “My Super Ex-Girlfriend,” Uma Thurman, as G-Girl, flies down from the sky to stop a jewel heist. As she nears the ground, her skirt floats up and when the bad guys shoot at her, their bullets puncture her shirt but not […]

For prospective filmmakers, it can be hard to make it in Hollywood. But it might be easier for those from UCLA. “If you say you’re from the UCLA film school, everyone wants to accommodate you and give you any kind of access you want,” fifth-year English student Jeffrey Morris said. “You just have to be […]

Catherine Manabat, a second-year English student, was introduced to YouTube.com soon after the UCLA basketball team beat Gonzaga University in the NCAA Tournament. She found several versions of the final minutes of the nail-biting game, some even filmed from the sidelines. “We’re catching up and then, “˜Oh my gosh, they’re tied,’” Manabat said. “You can […]

It’s a hot day in what looks like downtown New York, except big cameras line the streets instead of cars, people are talking into headsets and walkie-talkies instead of cell phones, and instead of flying across the country, UCLA students only had to drive down Melrose Avenue to the Paramount lot. Students were on the […]

Directed by Donald Petrie 20th Century Fox “Just My Luck” features footage of Lindsay Lohan partying, making out with hotties, wearing designer dresses, and looking trashed the next morning. But this isn’t an extended “E! True Hollywood Story” ““ it’s actually an entire movie about the fabulous life of Ashley Albright, a fictional character played […]

Miles Marsico and Jack De Sena met in the wild. The first-year acting students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television were both voice actors in the latest Disney animated movie “The Wild” (Marsico as Duke the kangaroo and De Sena as Eze the hippo), jobs that were not easy to land. “Some […]