Category Archives: Film & TV

Typically, sadness steals over you like the effects of a very strong, very sweet wine; it builds in your abdomen like a bad stomachache; or it festers like an open wound.

The main point of “Old Dogs” is to subject its stars ““ Robin Williams, John Travolta and Seth Green, mostly ““ to enough pain and humiliation to take the place of an interesting plot.

Four months ago, our favorite 5 Southers moved out of their dorms ““ and consequently our lives ““ on the hit Web series “Dorm Life.” Created by seven Bruins, college mockumentary “Dorm Life” aired its first episode in February 2008 and continues to be one of the most popular Web shows on Hulu.

Eighty-five minutes of real-time video reporting in the middle of a violent protest has been packaged in the documentary “Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country,” which will be screened as part of the UCLA International Institute’s second annual Human Rights Film Series.

The question, at this point, is not whether to take the “Twilight” series seriously ““ if you don’t have pictures of Robert Pattinson on your walls, feel free to laugh when the vampires sparkle in the sunlight. Rather, the real question is whether “Twilight” is taking itself seriously anymore.