UCLA’s animation festival was a first-time prom experience for some students featured in the event. “Prom: Festival of Animation” is a featured event of UCLA’s TFT Film Festival that will showcase student-created animated films Saturday. The annual event was dubbed “Prom” in the 1980s because many of the people featured in the program had not […]
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Q&A: ‘Game of Thrones’ production designer talks challenges, accomplishments
Deborah Riley is the caretaker of Castle Black and helped build the ancient slave city of Meereen. However, Riley isn’t a character in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” – she’s the show’s production designer. Riley joined the show in 2013 and began working on production for the show’s fourth season. She oversees the entire art department […]
TV review: ‘House of Cards’
Warning: This post contains plot spoilers of previous seasons of “House of Cards.” Nobody hates to lose more than Frank and Claire Underwood. For four seasons of “House of Cards,” the Underwoods have bribed, threatened, manipulated and even murdered their way to power. In the rat race of American politics, they are the […]
Film students explore benefits of interschool collaborations
Los Angeles is a goldmine of prestigious film schools. Colleges located in the homeland of cinematic showbiz have distinct teaching styles. However, some students choose to collaborate with those from other schools to make movies that combine the differing educational foundations of UCLA, USC and Chapman University. Students from film schools across LA connect with other […]
Movie review: ‘Wonder Woman’
Wonder Woman shattered the comic book glass ceiling when she first burst onto stands in 1941. In 2017, she does so again as the first woman to front a superhero movie in a new wave of DC and Marvel films. “Wonder Woman” is everything a superhero movie should be – the film is populated with […]
Short film ‘The Spaceman’ brings UCLA creators to Cannes Film Festival
A cinematographer discreetly started filming as a child actor fiddled with a solar system mobile on the set of “The Spaceman.” The short film that carried second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in May contains no dialogue. Instead, […]
Movie review: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’
Dead men tell no tales – unless they’re recycled from previous ones. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” features engaging action sequences and amusing scenes, but fails to meet the charm and wit of earlier films. It ultimately feels like a retread of the franchise’s best moments and characters. The fifth installment […]