Category Archives: Film & TV

Movie review: ‘Queen of Katwe’

It’s difficult to make a movie unpredictable and authentic when it’s a foreign biopic in English — especially when the plot follows a girl from a developing country with dreams too big for her village. Though Disney’s new film, “Queen of Katwe,” follows a narrative dangerously close to the Hollywood rags-to-riches cliché, it feels fresh […]

TFT alum creates comedy web series based on time working as telemarketer

The scribbled notes in Adam Carr’s 6-by-4 inch blue moleskin journal read like a string of nonsense ramblings. His entries span from jokes about prank voicemails to memories of making calls while sipping wine from his coffee mug. Carr, a UCLA film, television and digital media alumnus, took time before bed a few times a […]

Movie review: ‘Storks’

For many parents, the standby answers for the awkward question kids invariably ask “Where do babies come from?” is that storks deliver them. In Warner Bros.’ newest animated movie “Storks,” the birds are no longer able to deliver babies because profits have dwindled in the baby industry and running an online package delivery service is […]

Incoming student’s high school films nominated for festival awards

Katie Speare filmed herself standing behind a sheet of Plexiglas smeared with makeup at age 16. Sound clips from 1950s makeup commercials droned on while two hands scrubbed the makeup off the sheet. As the brown streaks washed away, more and more of Speare was revealed. She stared directly into the camera and wiped her […]

Ariel Winter plans to continue acting career, pursue law at UCLA in 2017

Ariel Winter aspired to attend a university from a young age. But unlike most other college hopefuls, Winter applied to college while filming for a 22-time Emmy-winning television series. The actress best known for her portrayal of Alex Dunphy on “Modern Family” announced her UCLA acceptance to over 2 million Instagram followers in April. Though Winter said […]