When you stroll down Bruin Walk, you may see an LGBT fraternity, some business fraternities and a few social fraternities. Now among them is Delta Kappa Alpha, a co-ed professional cinema fraternity that has been re-established at UCLA after disbanding in the 1970s. Delta Kappa Alpha, UCLA’s Delta chapter, was started this winter quarter as […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
Love or Hate: Jimmy Fallon hosting “The Tonight Show”
Here’s Jimmy! With Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” contract expiring next year, the question of his potential successor has been looming. Finally, NBC announced Jimmy Fallon, host of his own “Late Night” show, will replace Leno in spring 2014. Many fans see this as a celebratory next step for Fallon to take, exposing him to […]
B-Sides: Soundtracks have potential to help in movie marketing
On May 10, the long-delayed and heavily hyped movie “The Great Gatsby” will hit theaters. I’m not necessarily holding my breath for the movie, having barely been able to get through the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald. However, director Baz Luhrmann has made an interesting choice regarding the soundtrack for the movie, and I think […]
Alumna documents trials of marriage in film for thesis
Esther Julie-Anne comes from a rich genetic heritage of both French and Native American descent. Now happily married, living in the United States, she retains a high appreciation for both her foreign and localized family roots. Her family’s legacy for marriage, however, remains another story.
Feature documentary recounts UCLA professor, activist Angela Davis
Director Shola Lynch stated that if she were to write a scripted, narrative film in which a 26-year-old philosophy student became an international political icon, Hollywood would strike the film down as unbelievable. However, eight years creating a documentary that recounts the true story of Angela Davis paid off for Lynch. In the new feature […]
Spring Scenes: New movies revamp old storylines
Spring is a beautiful time of year for movie theaters, where big budget sequels bloom and blockbusters flourish. Among this quarter’s crop of aspiring hits are comedies of epic proportions like “The Hangover Part III” and “This is the End,” a remake of horror classic “Evil Dead,” and a 3D re-release of acclaimed sci-fi horror […]
Movie Review: ‘Admission’
As any college student might know, few things are more nerve-racking than the admissions process. What they don’t know is the chaotic and emotional world on the other end of that application. In Paul Weitz’s newest film “Admission,” this commonly pondered topic comes to light as Tina Fey and Paul Rudd unite for the first […]