Deborah Riley is the caretaker of Castle Black and helped build the ancient slave city of Meereen. However, Riley isn’t a character in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” – she’s the show’s production designer. Read more...
Photo: As a production designer, Deborah Riley oversaw the construction of sets on “Game of Thrones,” such as the city of Meereen. (Helen Sloan/HBO)
Warning: This post contains plot spoilers of previous seasons of “House of Cards.” Nobody hates to lose more than Frank and Claire Underwood. For four seasons of “House of Cards,” the Underwoods have bribed, threatened, manipulated and even murdered their way to power. Read more...
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Los Angeles is a goldmine of prestigious film schools. Colleges located in the homeland of cinematic showbiz have distinct teaching styles. However, some students choose to collaborate with those from other schools to make movies that combine the differing educational foundations of UCLA, USC and Chapman University. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Nick Adams wrote the original screenplay “A Billion Dollars,” which he worked on with Chapman University producing student Xia Huang. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)
Wonder Woman shattered the comic book glass ceiling when she first burst onto stands in 1941. In 2017, she does so again as the first woman to front a superhero movie in a new wave of DC and Marvel films. Read more...
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A cinematographer discreetly started filming as a child actor fiddled with a solar system mobile on the set of “The Spaceman.” The short film that carried second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in May contains no dialogue. Read more...
Photo: Second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg went to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival with their film “The Spaceman.”
Dead men tell no tales – unless they’re recycled from previous ones. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” features engaging action sequences and amusing scenes, but fails to meet the charm and wit of earlier films. Read more...
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Three one-act plays will feature a support group for mystical creatures, a school for troubled girls and a dubious alien abduction. “The Good, the Plaid, and the Ugly,” premiering Friday, is the latest show produced by Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company. Read more...
Photo: “Rialto, CA. 1993” is one of three one-act plays student members of Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will perform as part of “The Good, the Plaid, and the Ugly.” “Rialto, CA. 1993” is an original play written by third-year global studies student Cameron Coulter. (Courtesy of Simon Joo)
