Emmy Award-winning director Henry Chan has teamed up with UCLA screenwriting professor Weiko Lin on their first Chinese language feature film. “100 Days” tells the story of a young man who must appease his deceased mother’s spirit by finding love within 100 days after her death. After spending the last year and a half working […]
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‘100 Days’ pulls director, UCLA professor back to Asian roots
UCLA screenwriting professor Weiko Lin has transformed a sorrowful event from his past into a global story about reconnection and rediscovery that will soon hit the big screen as a feature film. With the help of one of his screenwriting students in Taiwan, Lin was able to transform a successful theater script into the screenplay […]
Movie Review: ‘Escape from Tomorrow’
At the happiest place on Earth, it’s a wonder how anyone could be anything besides elated beyond reason. That alone is enough purpose to drive “Escape from Tomorrow,” a film that has been claimed, on multiple occasions, “shouldn’t exist.” It’s a fair declaration – “Escape from Tomorrow” was shot entirely within and around the grounds […]
Q&A: Actors Justin Timberlake and Anthony Mackie share what they learned on-screen
Justin Timberlake is on top of the world. With the recent release of his second album this year, “The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2,” and his new film “Runner Runner,” he has his work cut out for him on all fronts. In his movie, the former boy-band-star-turned-actor plays Richie Furst, a Princeton student who […]
Love | Hate: Columnists compare top female pop stars
The female musicians of 2013 are doing an extraordinary job. From the toe-tapping jams of Janelle Monáe and Lady Gaga to the diverse rocking styles of Haim and Savages, the experimental ambiance of Julianna Barwick and Julia Holter to the emotional guitar tunes of Kacey Musgraves and Laura Marling, the girls have got it this […]
Movie review: ‘Parkland’
On November 22, 1963, a devastating event shook the nation, all of it supported by a widespread interest in television news broadcasting at the time. Since then, tastes have changed and audiences prefer their dramatic historical information presented to them through film adaptations with Zac Efron. “Parkland” is a re-creation of the assassination of President […]
Movie Review: ‘Gravity’
A science fiction movie has never won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Cultural landmarks such as “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” lost to more personalized narratives about the complicated art of love and the teachings of a philosophical leader. Where more recent unsuccessful nominees “District 9” and “Avatar” established their underlying purposes to […]