Chad Sellers makes magic with Disney. Sellers works at Walt Disney Animation Studios as an animator and has helped craft films like “Tangled,” “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Frozen.” The partially self-taught animator worked for a video game company and Blue Sky Studios, most famous for the “Ice Age” series, before securing a job with Disney. Sellers, […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
Second Take: Writers Guild Awards results set stage for Oscars predictions
The red carpet arrivals begin. One by one, familiar faces – actors – and not so familiar faces – writers – walk by an elaborate backdrop. Cameras flash ceaselessly while television reporters desperately try to get one usable shot of the nominees. At the Writers Guild Awards, the writers are the real stars. “A red […]
‘Light out of Darkness’ illuminates stories of Holocaust survivors
As a young woman, Sophie Zeidman Hamburger had faced death before the German Nazi soldiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At the age of 93, she told her story to a group of eager students in the main room of Hillel at UCLA. Andrew Rosenstein, a young Jewish man who had never known the horrors of […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’
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. One is an alien, a god among men and a symbol of hope. […]
Film festival promotes Latin American and Iberian culture, languages
The sounds and rhythms of the Spanish guitar swirled through the mind of an 80-year-old man, making him feel 17 again. The old man was watching “Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona,” a movie about a famous Barcelonian flamenco dancer, which triggered a memory of learning flamenco during his teenage years. Personal stories like the old man’s remind […]
Movie Review: ‘Deadpool’
Valentine’s Day is a time for tenderness and love, when couples often go to the movies to enjoy a cheesy rom-com and make out in the dark. Despite its ironic advertisement campaign, “Deadpool” is not conducive to this. Marvel’s newest movie opened this weekend, broke box office records, received a ringing endorsement from actress Betty […]
Love | Hate: Were the Super Bowl ads engaging or did they drop the ball?
2016 was the year of the celebrity-endorsed Super Bowl commercial. On Sunday, everyone from Christopher Walken to Helen Mirren to Jeff Goldblum and Lil Wayne made their best, most random pitches to the 111.9 million viewers at home. And it better be worth it, with each 30-second spot alongside the biggest sporting event in the […]