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 […]
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Student nails it with affordable, on-campus manicure business
Courtney Scott hauled a black suitcase of nail polish into her dorm lounge. On the eighth floor of Hedrick Summit, the second-year mathematics for teaching student provides professional manicures to UCLA students under the company name Court’s Nail Army. After starting the business her freshman year just three floors below her current dorm room, Scott […]
Esteemed violin professor to perform with chamber orchestra at Royce Hall
Violin professor Movses Pogossian lives for the moments of silence at the end of a concert, the collective hush of thousands of people holding their breaths at the final bow of his string. But when the curtain closes, he returns to his studio and transforms from performer to professor. An internationally renowned violinist, Pogossian will […]
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 […]
Alumnae take the stage in ‘Frozen’ production at California Adventure
Nine UCLA alumni joined the cast of “Frozen – Live at the Hyperion,” performing as Elsa, Olaf, Hans, Kristoff or the ensemble. The live adaptation of the 2013 Disney animated film “Frozen” currently plays three times a day at Disney California Adventure after opening in May. Each week, the Daily Bruin will share alumni’s experiences […]
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 […]
