New York City’s testosterone-charged detective team Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and P. K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) takes car chases and excessive property damage to a whole other level. Especially when you realize it’s all in pursuit of a single ounce of marijuana.
Category Archives: Film & TV
Game Review: “StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty”
In a medium of such rapid technological change as the video game, 12 years is a very long time.
Alum are stars of gaming world
It began with three UCLA graduates, $20,000 and a 600-square-foot office in Irvine.
Three young entrepreneurs started working on video games just months after receiving their undergraduate degrees from UCLA using computers brought from home, and even some borrowed equipment.
Silicon & Synapse, the small company Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce started nearly 20 years ago, is now Blizzard Entertainment.
Audience to judge film contest at Hammer Museum’s Open Projector Night
Not all movies leave the audience blown away, or even content, for that matter.
But Tuesday, the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Open Projector Night will provide a comedic and audience-centered solution to displeasure with films.
James Bridges Theater to feature Bag It!, a film festival about the effects of single-use plastics
A plastic grocery bag blows through the wind, almost dancing as the breeze pulls it in every direction.
Balancing science, fiction in film
As anyone who’s ridden the “Star Tours” simulation at Disneyland can attest, warp speed looks and feels really cool. But could we ever bend space and time to travel that fast in real life?
Theater Review
Sometimes there is a truth you believe in so much so that you can feel it within your bones. But truth ultimately becomes subjective when others come into the picture and claim to know the real story.