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Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3′
Director Shane Black is already one of high expectations, the UCLA alumnus also having written the first “Lethal Weapon” film. More »
UCLA to screen alumna’s first feature film ‘Arcadia’
As UCLA professor A.P. Gonzales asked his students to write down their earliest memories, Olivia Silver took paper to pen and relived the moment of shock she felt upon arriving at her new home in the San Gabriel Valley after driving cross-country from Connecticut. For Silver, this would be the first step in creating her first feature film, “Arcadia.” More »
Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air’
France, around 1971: bohemian kickback, heroin flowing, bonfires blazing; nude or half-nude, the Marxists-maybe-Maoists dance, music booming, politics looming. Embers flicker in the air, romance, youth and ennui and smoke, tasseled together inseparable, floating ethereal into nevermore. More »
Movie Review: ‘Midnight’s Children’
Selling the film rights for $1, Salman Rushdie entrusted his magical realism epic novel “Midnight’s Children” to his friend and director Deepa Mehta, believing she could surmount such a troublesome adaptation. Perhaps Rushdie should have left his masterwork alone. The… More »
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Sweat hang in the air. Everything is glistening, waiting for the plot, the explosion. Cue dynamite. Violence. Men with excess testosterone; vixens in silhouette. And a Michael Bay production comes screaming across the sky, and, this summer, nothing will ever… More »
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