In 2012, Bill Hader told Mindy Kaling he was involved in a secret Pixar project involving emotions when they were shooting the pilot episode of “The Mindy Project.” Initially jealous, Kaling said she later gleefully told Hader he wasn’t so special anymore when she too was added to the cast of “Inside Out” a year […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
For talent agent Natalie Novak, digital media is the future
When Grace Helbig, Connor Franta and several other Internet stars checked into hotel rooms two years ago while attending the world’s largest online video conference, VidCon, something caught their attention. Their room keys appeared different. Natalie Novak had added color, some gloss and a brand name to otherwise ordinary card keys. The seemingly small change […]
Q&A: UCLA’s Tom Nunan talks Academy Award nominee ‘Son of Saul’
In the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where there is hope for neither survival nor redemption, a Sonderkommando becomes obsessed with giving one boy a proper burial. The Sonderkommando, a prisoner who helps Nazis by working in the gas chambers, suspects the boy is his son, and will endure any danger to salvage a speck of […]
Press Pass: Alumnus Frank Spotnitz discusses ‘X-Files’ reboot, writing career
Press Pass is rolling out the Daily Bruin Alumni Q&A series, where we connect with past staffers in the paper and see where the Daily Bruin has taken them in their respective careers. Frank Spotnitz never doubted the “X-Files” would return. The UCLA and Daily Bruin alumnus worked as a journalist before joining the “X-Files” […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Green Room’
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. The woods have always been a terrifying place for man. It is where […]
Movie Review: ‘Hail, Caesar!’
Eddie Mannix is a sinner—well, a relapsing smoker. Yes it’s toxic, but he can’t resist just one more drag of nicotine. Who can blame him? He works in the fast-paced film industry of the 1950s, juggling the actors’ peculiarities and the backdoor politics to ensure the smooth-running of Capitol Pictures. Mannix (Josh Brolin) is the […]
TV Review: ‘The X-Files’
Warning: This article contains plot spoilers. Let’s get this out the way: the first episode of the newly rebooted “X-Files” is really, really bad. It feels like a show trying to do an impression of “The X-Files.” The characters are the same, the plot points sound familiar, but the soul is gone. Without the luxury […]