Category Archives: Arts

Clueless By Colburn Tseng Movie titles like Clueless and Dumb and Dumber are the snide critic’s dream. Big, bold sentences filled with clever, cutting puns march through the mind at a steady pace begging to grace the printed page. But alas, snide cleverness will have to wait because Clueless is neither dumb nor dumber. Light-hearted, […]

First Knight By Colburn Tseng Richard Gere is some big stud. Even moviegoers who have never found the actor very appealing will walk out of First Knight agreeing that the soon to be ex-Mr. Cindy Crawford, with his silver hair dyed a youthful brown, just oozes charisma in the role of Lancelot, knight of the […]

By Kristin FioreSummer Bruin Staff Much of what is innovative, emotive, or just plain bewildering in 20th century art can be blamed on Wassily Kandinsky. One of the first true abstract artists, Kandinsky expressed himself through pure form and color, recreating a mood instead of a scene. Six of his seven existing "Compositions" are being […]

By Michael HorowitzSummer Bruin Staff Judge Dredd, and his companion Fergie, have been captured by a cannibalistic family of desert nomads. Strung up to await their fate, the pair dangle in mid-air, suspended by rope coiled around their wrists. Rob Schneider, the comedian starring as Fergie opposite Sylvester Stallone’s Dredd, wears an expression of pain […]

‘Langoliers’ ruined by overacting, dialogue By Jennifer Richmond Daily Bruin Senior Staff Stephen King has two types of films. The successful and the unsuccessful. Successful include films like Misery and Stand By Me where the story is realistic. Unsuccessful films include It and Christine where the fantastical take over and bizarre occurrences seem to run […]

Festival of New One Act Plays provides three hours of laughs Productions aided by impressive sets and clever acting By Jeana Blackman Whoever said you can’t please everyone has obviously never been to Act One ’95, the Second Annual Festival of New One Act Plays playing at the Met Theatre. The six one-acts that compose […]

A few good men By Michael Horowitz Daily Bruin Senior Staff Crimson Tide is a taut, white-knuckle sub thriller that will make you chew your fingers off. And then, with out any digits, you will be unable to point out problems in this film. The marketing campaign for this flick hasn’t been overly concerned with […]