I was sick last weekend with one of the worst stomach flus ever. I won’t go into detail, but on Friday, my mattress was my death bed, my dorm room my own personal tomb and crypt. Read more...

For better or for worse, “Runaway Jury” is an extremely historic film, even if it’s not an extremely good one. In the same way “Heat” paired Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together for the first time (They were never in a scene together in “The Godfather, Part II.”), “Runaway Jury” does the same for Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. Read more...

With mainstream music becoming increasingly homogenized, the appeal of classical music is sometimes lost among today’s youth. By offering a range of both classical and contemporary chamber pieces, performers of tonight’s chambermusic@ucla show hope to prove their music can be just as rewarding. Read more...

I love Katie Holmes, but she’ll always be Joey Potter, the sweet, preternaturally pretty girl next door who was forever torn between Dawson and Pacey. Holmes, fearing that she would be pigeonholed by “Dawson’s Creek,” has long sought to challenge her good-girl persona by taking on edgier roles in films like “Disturbing Behavior,” “Go” and “The Gift.” In “Pieces of April,” Holmes takes perhaps her biggest leap of all. Read more...

Correction appended Huddled in a small circle outside a meeting room on the 2nd floor of Ackerman Student Union are about eight or nine UCLA students. Read more...

Although it upset him, Charlie Chaplin felt he had to cut the opening scene of his 1931 film “City Lights.” In it, Chaplin’s Tramp finds a stick stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, and spends almost seven minutes of screen time trying to remove it, running into humorous challenges along the way. Read more...

Belle and Sebastian “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” Rough Trade In his diary for the liner notes of its new album, “Dear Catastrophe Waitress,” Belle and Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch rather awkwardly uses the word “indie” to describe the feeling of his native Glasgow in the summer. Read more...