Forty-three UCLA staff members and alumni were involved in projects nominated for the 2016 Emmy awards in 16 different categories. Over the course of four weeks, Daily Bruin A&E will feature some of these UCLA-affiliated nominees and their projects. Silas Howard is committed to telling transgender people’s stories through film. He himself transitioned after graduating […]
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Alumna talks human side of ‘Halloween of Horror’ episode of ‘The Simpsons’
Forty-three UCLA staff members and alumni were involved in projects nominated for the 2016 Emmy awards in 16 different categories. Over the course of four weeks, the A&E staff will feature some of these UCLA affiliated nominees and their projects. Zombies surrounded Lisa from all sides. There was no escape. Lisa screamed at the top […]
Alum creates absurdist video installation to convey love for cartoons
A talking rock dressed in a cowboy hat asked a doll how it feels to be a doll. Then it asked a frog how it feels to be a frog. Neither replied, but that didn’t stop the rock from trying to understand the lives of the frog and the doll. The rock, doll and frog […]
Movie review: ‘Queen of Katwe’
It’s difficult to make a movie unpredictable and authentic when it’s a foreign biopic in English — especially when the plot follows a girl from a developing country with dreams too big for her village. Though Disney’s new film, “Queen of Katwe,” follows a narrative dangerously close to the Hollywood rags-to-riches cliché, it feels fresh […]
Movie review: ‘Game of Aces’
A wounded German officer in the vast Arab desert says to himself repeatedly in German, “There is no pain,” as he takes out a splinter stuck in his thigh. The credits appear in a Tarantino-esque font and filter while a nondescript biker rides in front of a backdrop of the pyramids. The opening credits of […]
‘Current:LA’ exhibits plug water sustainability with art, science
An enormous plastic dome covered a directional mic and a set of headphones by the watershed in the middle of Del Rey Lagoon Park on Tuesday. The audience members approached the installation one by one, putting on headphones to hear bird songs and then mimicking the sounds into microphones. A computer calculated the accuracy of […]
Movie review: ‘Finding Dory’
Viewers of “Finding Dory” can be as forgetful as Dory and still follow her story. There’s no need to remember what happened in Disney’s 2003 hit “Finding Nemo.” In “Finding Dory,” the adorable and heart-warming blue tang fish, Dory, goes through a series of pitfalls to find her long-lost parents. With Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) as […]