In mid-April at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, a small herd of student filmmakers donning the same white shirts stamped with the Sprite logo brushed shoulders with Hollywood celebrities.
Author Archives: Spencer Pratt
Movie Review: "Moonrise Kingdom"
“Moonrise Kingdom”
Directed by Wes Anderson
FOCUS Features
Coffee fiends: Aficionados treat the beverage as a way of life
For some, coffee is not just a hot, caffeinated beverage. It is a gourmet drink that can be tailored in multiple ways to satisfy the human palate.
Hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest reunites for a movie directed by Michael Rapaport
Tonight, the UCLA Hip-Hop Congress will be presenting a free movie screening of “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest.”
Feel-good film nominees grace 2012 Oscar list
The 2012 Oscar nominations hit the Internet yesterday, but revealed themselves gently ““ most of the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards are reunited in their devotion to feel-good cinema. This is a stark contrast from 2007, which was dominated by violence and movies about the depravity of mankind, like “No Country For Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood.”
Literary Treasures
The brightness of day filters through a large window onto a matte black typewriter, the dimples of its glossy keys forming multiple pools of reflective light. Bookshelves, standing as sentries of the published word, line the walls before it.
UCLA alum Joseph Stern produces Arthur Miller’s classic play “All My Sons” with multi-ethnic cast to highlight racial issues
In 1947, the opening show of Arthur Miller’s play “All My Sons” featured a racially homogeneous cast. This year, a revision to that play has been made. The casting is multi-ethnic, and for a very specific reason.