Category Archives: Film & TV

After meeting day laborers outside of a Cypress Park Home Depot, artist Yoshua Okón was inspired to do more than hire them. He was inspired to feature their story in a new art installment.

Somewhere in the middle of a sprawling, tumbleweed-filled desert, a man wakes up with a start.

It’s Daniel Craig at his most rugged, covered in dirt and blood (his own) and wearing a clunky metal bracelet he has never seen before.

Craig’s character (who is revealed as Jake Lonergan) goes on to wordlessly kill a group of bounty hunters, steal their clothes and wander into the nearest town.

Even if a viewer is worried about whether the film will live up to the hype (it doesn’t) or whether this is just another shoot ’em up blockbuster (it is), watching Lonergan try on a dead man’s boots is fun.

The film opens at UMart ““ a fictionalized Kmart ““ where Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) spends each work day chatting with customers, mentoring his less efficient peers and picking up trash in the parking lot.

A couple of years ago, producer J.C. Calciano, a past guest speaker at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, was interviewing actor Jonah Hill on the set of “Get Him to the Greek.”

Summer is a time for students to catch up on the TV shows they may have missed earlier in the year because they were studying for finals or doing homework.

For those tired of traditional indoor theater experiences and looking for new means to watch movies, three local outdoor cinemas are rigging up their screens, sound checking their stages and firing up their kitchens for an evening of under-the-stars entertainment.

Many students do not quite know what life after college entails, but recently graduated alumna Chelsea Mayer’s love of film has paved the path down which her post-grad goals will lead her.