There is a primal instinct that’s generally truer than the traditional fight-or-flight responses: panic. Unbridled, terrified panic. It usually manifests as screaming or, internally, a mind-numbing sense of lingering dread. That’s almost what “Force Majeure” is like – both in plot and experience. “Force Majeure” is an unconventional disaster movie, never letting its audience members […]
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Mariachi de UCLAtlán to celebrate Día de los Muertos with performance
The booming sound of trumpets and violins burst through the air in the Schoenberg Music Building every Monday and Wednesday night as members of Mariachi de UCLAtlán rehearse for their Día de los Muertos performance. The group has been practicing for the performance since September. The performance will be at the Fowler Museum’s Art Council […]
Movie Review: ‘Interstellar’
In “Interstellar,” Christopher Nolan once again refracts time to create focus on the theme of love. In Nolan’s 2010 critically acclaimed “Inception,” characters live hours to entire lifetimes in dream worlds. To reverse the time lost, they need only wake up. However, in Nolan’s upcoming science-fiction adventure film “Interstellar,” time passed cannot be reversed. “Interstellar” […]
Creative Halloween costume ideas
Halloween means different things for different people. Regardless of preference between tricks or treats, Halloween poses a creative challenge: costumes. This Halloween, Daily Bruin A&E; hopes to provide students with some creative ideas for those with costume concept block. Whether you’re desiring to be a dream duo or flying solo, come one and all for […]
Movie Review: ‘The Houses October Built’
At this point in the horror film genre’s development, found footage films have been driven into the ground. It seems every month a new exorcism or possession movie drives yet another nail into its coffin. Focusing instead on haunted houses, “The Houses October Built” is a found footage film that offers promise with a novel […]
Movie Review: ‘John Wick’
In “John Wick,” Keanu Reeves is the action hero for everybody. He has the overwhelming bloodlust of Mel Gibson in “Mad Max,” the surprising vengefulness of Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill” and the brooding professionalism of Liam Neeson in “Taken.” Like the protagonists in all of the aforementioned films, Reeves’ title character goes on an […]
‘Spine of Califas’ combines Chicano music, poetry at Powell
In the late 1970s, Jesus Velo and Willie Herrón of punk rock band, Los Illegals, aimed to provide a space for Chicano culture in East L.A. Under the name “Spine of Califas,” the musicians have partnered and toured with the writers of Taco Shop Poets, coalescing the voices of two Chicano generations through a meshing […]