Advertisements for “Taking Woodstock” read, “It’s a trip,” and though the destination is worth it, the road to get there is a long and heavy wait.

Walking past Broxton Avenue toward the Regent Theatre, one is welcomed by a line of moviegoers standing behind a miniature red carpet display in front of the theater’s entrance.

Watching “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is like overdosing on steroids.

Teri Schwartz always held UCLA in her heart ““ up to this day, she still keeps in contact with her dorm mates and has been a lifetime member of the Alumni Association since graduating in 1971.

Many say that the hardest part of writing a paper is the introduction and conclusion ““ synthesizing an entire body of work into five to eight sentences requires nuance, creativity and the ability to capture the reader’s attention until the very end.

The genre of science fiction has taken its audience from “The Matrix” to galaxies far away, but it is rare to see the genre go anywhere south of the border.

It’s not often that budding filmmakers can screen their student films for an international audience ““ especially when the subject matter is deeply personal. However, three UCLA students are getting that opportunity with KCET’s 12th Annual Fine Cut Film Series.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive’s 14th biennial Festival of Preservation includes clips of Alfred Hitchcock making faces at the camera during the Hollywood premiere of “North by Northwest,” gay and lesbian couples speaking about their struggles in the first-ever feature-length documentary about the subject in 1977, and the sole surviving copy of one of Sri Lanka’s most important films, “Gamperaliya.”

What can a silly movie about a shopaholic teach us about the recession? Apparently, “Confessions of a Shopaholic” is an allegory for it. Pointless spending, spiraling debt, more pointless spending and (gasp!) suddenly billions of dollars in debt.

Reminders of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are never too far, but little did we know that the story began long before the storm ever hit.