The hero of the shadows is coming back into the spotlight. Releasing in theaters on Friday, “The Batman” reintroduces Gotham City’s favorite billionaire, Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson), during his early vigilante years as the Batman. Read more...
Photo: Zoë Kravitz (left) and Robert Pattinson (right) play Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne in “The Batman.”(Courtesy of Jonathan Olley/DC Comics)
“Bedtime” is tucking in the elephant in the room. The short film is fourth-year sociology student and director Bri Lageyre’s depiction of the female college student experience, shown through the lens of two roommates, Kenna and Carla, getting ready for bed. Read more...
Photo: (From left to right) Emily Gibson, Alexandra Sophia Ruiz and Bri Lageyre’s short film “Bedtime” follows two best friends getting ready for bed as they discuss their experiences as female college students. (Kyle Kotanchek/Daily Bruin)
Queer Cinema lives on through an on-the-road, gritty romance. On Saturday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will be screening short films “Oblivion” and “If Every Girl Had a Diary“ along with feature film “The Living End” at the Billy Wilder Theater as part of their “Pioneers of Queer Cinema” series. Read more...
Photo: Mike Dytri (left) and Craig Gilmore (right) play Luke and Jon in “The Living End.” (Courtesy of Academy Entertainment)
"Stormy Weather” has hit the Billy Wilder Theater. On Saturday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive presented an Archive Talk, which consisted of a presentation given by special guest Miriam J. Petty, followed by a screening of the 1943 film “Stormy Weather” and an onstage conversation between Petty and Philana Payton. Read more...
Photo: On Saturday, Miriam J. Petty, an associate professor at Northwestern University, gave a guest presentation on her research at an Archive Talk organized by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)
Taunting the next generation of young adults, Leatherface is back with only murder on his mind. Releasing Friday on Netflix, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” returns with a modern take on the original 1974 movie. Read more...
Photo: (From left to right) Elsie Fisher, Sarah Yarkin, Nell Hudson and Jacob Latimore play Lila, Melody, Ruth and Dante, respectively, in Netflix’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” sequel. (Courtesy of Netflix/Yana Blajeva)
Editor’s note: The following article contains mentions of sexual assault that may be disturbing to some readers. Filmmaking serves as a medicine for healing in “Love, Laugh, Doom, Tears.” The documentary-style film was written and directed by graduate film student Nhung Nguyen, who said her film was born from a very personal space after she was sexually assaulted in May 2020. Read more...
Photo: Graduate film student Nhung Nguyen created the documentary “Love, Laugh, Doom, Tears,” which focuses on Nguyen’s own experience dating as a Vietnamese American woman. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
This post was updated Feb. 13 at 9:30 p.m. With a byte-sized plot, not even Zoë Kravitz could redeem “KIMI.” The film follows blue-haired, agoraphobic tech worker Angela Childs (Zoë Kravitz) as she attempts to pursue justice from the comfort of her own home. Read more...
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