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. Read more...
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Film & TV
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February 11, 11:37 pm
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. Read more...
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Arts, Film & TV
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February 11, 4:32 pm
Mindy Kaling, Jonas Rivera discuss making of ‘Inside Out’
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 later. Read more...
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Arts, Film & TV
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February 10, 1:15 am
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. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Extension alumna Natalie Novak helped plan VidCon, the world’s largest online video conference. As a digital media agent, her clients include iJustine, Joey Graceffa and jiffpom. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Arts, Film & TV
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February 9, 12:36 am
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. Read more...
Photo: Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig stars as Saul in the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, “Son of Saul.” The film, directed by László Nemes, will be screened at the James E. Bridges Theater on Tuesday, followed by a Q&A with Nemes and Röhrig. (Courtesy of Hungarian National Film Fund)
Arts, Behind the Bruin, Film & TV, The Quad
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February 8, 10:12 pm
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. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Frank Spotnitz is a former “X-Files” writer and producer and now works as the chief executive of the production company, Big Light Productions. (Courtesy of Liane Hentscher)
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February 8, 6:45 am
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. Read more...
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