The challenge is to create a five-minute film in just one week. For UCLA student filmmakers participating in Campus MovieFest, today marks the end of this exciting but difficult process as they turn in their final submissions. Read more...
Photo: Each team working on projects for Campus MovieFest is provided with a video camera, sound equipment and a computer to make edits.
There are fewer than two weeks until Halloween, and it’s time once again to get back in the spirit of frights and fears. Per usual, the entertainment world has a big effect on how the faux-holiday turns out; costumes of the season’s favorite characters find their way into the evening’s attire. Read more...
Everyone willing to go to the theater to see “Escape Plan,”the newest vehicle for glamorizing Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger as they spin into their late 60s, is going to receive exactly what they expect. Read more...
“The Fifth Estate” Directed by Bill Condon Walt Disney Studios 2.5 The thing about being groundbreaking is it’s hard to break new ground when the ground you’re standing on has already been demolished, especially if it was done three years earlier by a very good Mark Zuckerberg impersonation. Read more...
“Kill Your Darlings” invests in an evocative title, but only in the most literal sense do any of its darlings die. Ostensibly a gritty biographical portrait of Beat Generation writers – specifically the Columbia University group, centered around Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) – “Kill Your Darlings” flirts with style, but never escapes the generic structure it imposes around the famous movement. Read more...
Among the many perks of being a UCLA student is being within the vicinity of Hollywood, at the hub of one of the largest entertainment industries on the planet. Read more...
Photo: Amy Poehler, whose voice is featured in the soon-to-be released “Free Birds,” attended the movie’s Westwood premiere.
Perhaps the most ironic movie moment of the year so far occurred in late September, when the script for upcoming WikiLeaks thriller “The Fifth Estate,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as founder Julian Assange, was leaked on WikiLeaks. Read more...
