Author Archives: Nate Nickolai

Student uses UCLA’s campus as a backdrop for lifestyle fashion shoots

Anant Pandadiya wore a Rolex watch on one wrist and a Cartier bracelet on the other. The second-year psychology student shoots and models for the lifestyle magazine called #THATOLIFE while photographing high-end fashion shoots around UCLA’s campus. In between work and school, Pandadiya uses seemingly mundane environments around campus to showcase high fashion. Pandadiya first […]

Love | Hate: Will the “Clue” film remake go down well or not?

“Clue” is a quintessential piece of any household’s board game cabinet. However, it’s not essential to the average homeowner’s movie library – but perhaps that’s about to change. The classic mystery game was first introduced in the 1949, becoming an instant classic and spawning several books, games and a feature film. Although an initial flop […]

Alumna captures LA’s pigeon rolling community in new documentary

More than 50 men stood at street level with their heads raised and eyes trained on the sky. For a brief moment it was empty, until a flock of pigeons swarmed into sight, falling and twirling in somersaulting free falls. UCLA alumna Milena Pastreich watched from behind a camera lens, a bystander among the large […]

Second Take: New format brings true scares to ‘American Horror Story’ sixth season

“American Horror Story” returned for its sixth season Sept. 14, this time with a pig-headed monster and pilgrims instead of the worm rapist and vampire children of “Hotel.” The season, titled “Roanoke,” references a American colony in the late 1600s that mysteriously disappeared without any explanation. Thanks to a new interview and dramatic re-enactment format, […]

TFT professor named 2016 Academy Film Scholar

Ellen Scott spends most her of free time at an archive desk, studying 80-year-old film scripts about slavery to determine how the institution’s cinematic image evolved over the years. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Scott, the assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and […]

Q&A: UCLA alum discusses inspiration behind novel ‘Kubrick’s Game’

Derek Kent sees more than just a movie when watching Stanley Kubrick’s films. Instead of plot and dialogue, Kent’s eyes pick up obscure allusions, hidden codes and mysterious Illuminati symbols. In the UCLA alumnus’ first adult novel, “Kubrick’s Game,” students embark on a quest based on the same Kubrick films that Kent watched. Together, they […]