Beyond a sweating Bruce Lee dubbed with usually robotic English pronunciation, the history of Chinese martial arts cinema has remained relatively obscure. However, thanks to decades of collecting and newly remastered prints, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is currently presenting “Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film, Part II,” a continuation of the 2003 series intended to change preconceptions of Chinese martial arts cinema. Read more...

The opposite of war isn’t peace. It’s creation. In the case of “Rent,” war is the battle for love ““ and against the AIDS epidemic within a 1980s New York City Bohemia. Read more...

Second-year neuroscience student Stacy Chang was on a Greek island when “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,” the sixth book in the series, was released over the summer. Read more...

“One Bright Shining Moment” is the kind of movie title that might bring to mind uplifting Hollywood fare about victorious underdog sports teams or landmark court cases. Read more...

blink-182 “Greatest Hits” Geffen Records Someone neglected to tell blink-182 that its 15 minutes of fame ended about four years ago. The San Diego band, which recently went on hiatus (conveniently in time for its newest release), began its career with raunchy jokes and teen angst. Read more...

In 1951, Truman Capote sent the manuscript of his first novel, “Summer Crossing,” to Robert Linscott, his Random House editor at the time. He had written the book seven years earlier, in 1944, and had since achieved international fame with his first published novel, “Other Voices, Other Rooms.” Looking for a follow-up, Capote hoped he could edit the manuscript, originally written when he was 20 years old, but Linscott’s response to the book convinced him otherwise. Read more...

The scariest thing about senior year at UCLA is the realization that graduation is actually going to happen. And, judging from the recent attempts of my friends and fellow fourth-year students to act sophisticated, I realize that I’m not alone in my desire to be a little more adult. Read more...