“Down with Love” Directed by Peyton Reed 20th Century Fox To paraphrase Alma, Doris Day’s maid in “Pillow Talk, “You only need one sip to know you’ve got a good bottle.” “Down with Love” is one hell of a bottle. Read more...

After three quarters of tireless rehearsing, the World Music performance ensembles of UCLA’s ethnomusicology department are finally ready to show their stuff. In this year’s five-night Spring Festival of World Music, the ensembles will perform song and dance from cultures as far ranging as Africa and China. Read more...

After getting up from behind his desk, Christopher Nolan sat in a chair next to a small coffee table and a couch. An enormous “Memento” poster hung over the desk, a smaller “Following” poster over the chair in which he sat. Read more...

Classic films often get dated from their conservative definitions of morality and prejudices. But this doesn’t necessarily apply to all things old. “We’re talking about 1933, and there’s a nymphomaniac from Brentwood who’s also a kleptomaniac and a sexual deviant,” said UCLA Film and Television Archive programmer Mimi Brody regarding the film “Bloody Money.” That film will screen as part of the UCLA Archive’s retrospective of early 1930s films that contrast the conservatism that came later. Read more...

Katie Cole loved the “virtualistic combat with tight 3-D effects” in the original. Nate Plumley called the final trailer for the sequel “orgasmic.” And Marco Martinez, who has already seen it, said “The Matrix Reloaded” is better than “The Matrix.” Martinez, a second-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, saw the film at an MTV Movie House preview screening on the Warner Bros. Read more...

Jocks want to rock, and rock stars want to be sports heroes. This pop culture rule-of-thumb might explain why 105-pound pianist Anne-Marie McDermott envisions herself as an athlete. Read more...

It’s easy to forget they are there. Locked away and not often talked about, the mentally ill are still a taboo in much of American culture; they are perceived as somewhat alien. Read more...