Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. According to filmmaker Owen Harris and writer John Niven, you need to be […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
Alumna’s documentary ‘Chau, Beyond the Lines’ reaches Academy Awards
The delicate art of drawing is not a simple task for Chau. Within the confines of a small wheelchair, his limbs barely allow him to pick up a marker from the jumble of coloring supplies in front of him, let alone create an entire picture. As a victim of past warfare in Vietnam, he experienced […]
2016 Oscars predictions
Will “The Revenant” sweep the board at this year’s Academy Awards, or will Leonardo DiCaprio fall prey to another snub? Will Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander emerge victorious from hotly contested Actress categories? With the 2016 Oscars fast approaching, Daily Bruin A&E predicts the winners for six of the major categories. Best Picture: “The Revenant” […]
Will 2016 bring an end to Leonardo DiCaprio’s history of Oscar snubs?
When the average moviegoer today thinks of unrewarded talent, Leonardo DiCaprio springs to mind with his zero-for-four win rate at the Academy Awards. DiCaprio’s association with being snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has become so popular it has reached meme status. I’ve always wondered why DiCaprio became the poster boy […]
Q&A: UCLA professor talks diversity and representation in cinema
The nominees in the main acting categories of the 2016 Academy Awards are entirely white. For the second year in a row, the lack of diversity at the Oscars led to big names boycotting the ceremony and the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite trending online. UCLA professor and department chair of sociology Darnell Hunt compiled his yearly “Hollywood […]
Let’s Animate: Bruin Animated Filmmakers heads first project on vegetarian zombie
Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: an introduction to the club, the premise of their film and their storyboarding process. Zombie Mike is more preoccupied with his tedious, long days as an accountant than with his […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. If you ask me how to describe a Tim Burton movie, I would […]