As anyone who’s ridden the “Star Tours” simulation at Disneyland can attest, warp speed looks and feels really cool. But could we ever bend space and time to travel that fast in real life? Read more...
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August 1, 9:30 pm
Balancing science, fiction in film
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August 1, 9:27 pm
Theater Review
Sometimes there is a truth you believe in so much so that you can feel it within your bones. But truth ultimately becomes subjective when others come into the picture and claim to know the real story. Read more...
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July 25, 10:40 pm
Entering the next dimension?
As audiences stared in awe as Jake Sully and the Na’vi flew over the lush jungles of the planet Pandora, visually it was the rebirth of an old cinema staple with cutting-edge advancement in technology. Read more...
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July 19, 3:33 pm
The Movie Research Experience gets audiences involved in filmmaking
Imagine being able to determine the outcome of a film after simply viewing the trailer. Would Ferris Bueller have gotten a day off? Would Leonardo DiCaprio have survived “Titanic?” It’s audience input such as this that the UCLA Movie Research Experience is exploring in order to improve filmmaking. Read more...
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July 18, 10:21 pm
Modern Family’ series strikes a chord with students by having something to offer everyone
This evening at the Paley Center, Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, cocreators and executive producers of “Modern Family,” will give a talk about their hit TV show. The event, to be held at the Writers Guild Theater at 7 p.m., is the second of three parts of a series the Paley Center is putting on this July called “Inside the Writers Room.” Read more...
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July 5, 9:00 pm
Playwright Henry Ong’s piece “˜Fabric,’ the story of 72 Thai garment workers enslaved in El Monte, comes to the Company of Angels Theatre at The Alexandria
Fifteen years ago, 30 miles east of Westwood, the first widely known case of slavery in the U.S. since the end of the Civil War was uncovered in Los Angeles County's city of El Monte. Read more...
Photo: Actresses Jolene Kim (left) and Dian Kobayashi will perform in “Fabric,” a play about the enslavement of Thai garment workers, opening July 8 at The Alexandria.
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July 5, 9:00 pm
Screen scene
We all know what it's like to be a teenager, when every personal problem seems to threaten the very balance of the universe, when our every emotion is as overwrought as a My Chemical Romance song. Read more...