We have made it to 10th week of spring quarter ““ the highly anticipated last week of classes before summer break officially begins.
Category Archives: Film & TV
Sprite Films Program picks UCLA student filmmakers as finalists
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.
Movie Review: "High School"
If every stoner cliche were wrapped up into one film, “High School” would be the final product.
Q&A with film scholar Mark Shiel, author of “˜Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles’
Film scholar Mark Shiel studies the relationship between films and their influence on the cities in which they are shot. In his new book, “Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles,” Shiel tackles the heart of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles and describes the impact Hollywood cinema has had on the city. Shiel will discuss his new book tonight at 7 p.m. at the Hammer Museum. The Daily Bruin’s Stanton Sharpe spoke with Shiel about how he began his research in Hollywood cinema and Los Angeles, his advice for film students and the London film scene.
Movie Review: "Moonrise Kingdom"
“Moonrise Kingdom”
Directed by Wes Anderson
FOCUS Features
Movie Review: “The Intouchables”
It was a bet: to get the cop car to escort them to the emergency room.
The same cop car that was not only tailing them for reckless speeding but also suspecting the two passengers to be fleeing criminals.
Movie Review: 'Battleship'
Loud. Louder. Loudest.
Those are the three different volumes present in one of the first summer blockbusters of the year, “Battleship.” The movie’s plot is relatively simple. Humans have sent a radio signal out to deep space and it has finally been answered by things that are unequivocally hostile. A group of ships crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oahu, right in the middle of naval war games.