I’ve been at the Daily Bruin for five quarters. I wish I
had been here for all four years.
I am almost 22, graduating with two unemployable majors (French
and English), and about to head off to Montpelier, France, to teach
English to French children.

It may go unnoticed, but every day we all engage in
folklore.
Michael Owen Jones, a world arts and cultures professor and
faculty adviser for the upcoming UCLA Folklore Society’s
Vitas Film Festival, defines folklore as “expressive forms,
processes and behaviors that people learn and utilize in their
everyday lives.” So when you call your significant other
“honey,” eat your grandma’s famous pumpkin pie at
Thanksgiving, or help sing “Happy Birthday” at a
friend’s party, you’re participating in folklore.

Ashton Kutcher is known as many things ““ a star of
“That ’70s Show” and movies such as “Dude,
Where’s My Car?” and “Just Married,” the
host of “Punk’d,” the co-owner of celebrity hot
spot Dolce Enoteca and, of course, a tabloid darling thanks to his
relationship with Demi Moore.

The phrases “ballet-like” and “Hong Kong
action film” are not often heard together, but when talking
about the work of director Johnny To, the description is apt.

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.

The lights go down, the curtain goes up, and for the next few
hours you are transported out of your ordinary life. The theater
can be a magical, even life-changing experience.

“Once Upon a Time in the Midlands” Sony
Pictures Classics Directed by Shane Meadows

“Once Upon a Time in the Midlands” is a film with a
bit of an identity crisis.

A wedding is a joyous occasion ““ the union of two souls,
forever joined in holy matrimony. An “American
Wedding,” as it turns out, is a bit more complicated.

“How to Deal” ponders a question nearly every teen
(and college student) has been faced with: Can two people be
“friends with benefits,” (i.e. hook up) without
emotional attachment?

To survive in the film industry is no easy task.
For every Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino, there are
thousands of would-be directors and screenwriters struggling just
to make ends meet.