“The Fifth Estate” Directed by Bill Condon Walt Disney Studios 2.5 The thing about being groundbreaking is it’s hard to break new ground when the ground you’re standing on has already been demolished, especially if it was done three years earlier by a very good Mark Zuckerberg impersonation. Such is the case with “The Fifth […]
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Movie Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings’
“Kill Your Darlings” invests in an evocative title, but only in the most literal sense do any of its darlings die. Ostensibly a gritty biographical portrait of Beat Generation writers – specifically the Columbia University group, centered around Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) – “Kill Your Darlings” flirts with style, but never escapes the generic structure […]
Westwood Premieres: “Free Birds”
Among the many perks of being a UCLA student is being within the vicinity of Hollywood, at the hub of one of the largest entertainment industries on the planet. A wide breadth of motion picture landmarks can be found in the district just east of Westwood, from the Walk of Fame and world-renowned theater locations to […]
Love/Hate: Is actor Benedict Cumberbatch a hero or just hype?
Perhaps the most ironic movie moment of the year so far occurred in late September, when the script for upcoming WikiLeaks thriller “The Fifth Estate,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as founder Julian Assange, was leaked on WikiLeaks. It made for a wonderful exposé. Controversy aside, after becoming one of the most well-known British actors on the […]
UCLA alumni reunite for horror comedy ‘Ghost Team One’
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. When UCLA alumni Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser first met as graduate students on Professor Duane Dell’Amico’s web series, they had no idea what they were doing. It was improv; the two played […]
Q&A: UCLA alumni Rutherford and Peyser discuss filmmaking experience
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumni Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser are the co-directors of “Ghost Team One,” a horror comedy that follows slacker friends Brad and Sergio, madly in lust with beautiful Fernanda, who believes the house they all live in is haunted. Daily Bruin’s Aalhad Patankar sits down with Rutherford and […]
Movie review: ‘A Touch of Sin’
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. “A Touch of Sin” Directed by Jia Zhangke Kino Lorber 3.5 Paws There are many purposes by which filmmakers approach murder, some better than others. In “A Touch of Sin,” there is only […]