EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff With some newly-available technology, DVD movies like these can be copied and traded by anyone with an Internet connection. By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Reporter Two years ago, a 19-year-old Norwegian named Jon Johansen won a prestigious national award for high school students, The Karoline Prize, honoring extracurricular achievements. Read more...

By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Reporter The sky is falling at the Cirque du Soleil’s production of “Dralion.” The show, currently running next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, features a mysterious eight-ton ring 50 feet above the stage that seems to randomly drop things, whether it be performers, long satin ropes, juggling balls, or even the words of the welcome announcement before the show: “Please turn off all cell phones and pagers.” As objects fall from above, performers come from below, from the sides, and even from behind the audience. Read more...

  New Line Cinema Ice Cube and Mike Epps star in "All About the Benjamins." “All About the Benjamins” Directed by Kevin Bray Starring Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Tommy Flanagan Wild police pursuits, diamond heists and bad guys with facial scars ““ it may sound like a new Arnold Schwarzenegger flick but instead it’s Ice Cube’s latest action-comedy project, “All About the Benjamins.” Cube, an actor, co-writer and co-producer, returns to the big screen this time as Bucum Jackson, a bounty hunter on the prowl for Miami’s toughest petty thieves. Read more...

  Dreamworks Records Rufus Wainwright is performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theater Friday. By Anthony Bromberg Daily Bruin Senior Staff Take the sounds of Broadway musicals, Wagner operas, hip poetic imagery lyrics, melodic piano and occasionally guitar lines, lots of textural sounds and sweet impassioned pop vocals, and that is some sense of where Rufus Wainwright’s music comes from. Read more...

By Phoebe Bronstein Daily Bruin Contributor Nine actors, a dedicated director and the darker side of humanity surround the upcoming production of Tadeusz Rosewicz’s “The Hunger Artist Departs.” The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television debuts its production of this play tomorrow night. Read more...

DreamWorks L.L.C. and Warner Bros. Guy Pearce stars as time traveler Alexander Hartdegen in "The Time Machine," opening Friday. By Phoebe Bronstein Daily Bruin Contributor When the names Orlando Jones and Guy Pearce come up, people usually think 7up and “Memento.” But after his last two movies, Pearce might be associated with epic action-adventure stories like the “The Count of Monte Cristo” and the newly released “The Time Machine.” Jones would be better known for his role in the comedy “Evolution,” or his old comedy stints like “MadTV” or those soft drink commercials. Read more...

FILM The 1985 Richard Donner cult classic “The Goonies” will be showing in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom tonight and Friday night at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Read more...