When "True Blood" first premiered in 2007, it was a free HBO preview weekend where I lived. Read more...

John Curran's "Stone" begins with a man in his twenties watching golf on TV, ignoring his wife even when she hands him a drink. Read more...

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OVERTURE FILMS

If asked to name a dance movie, films such as "Save the Last Dance," "Stomp the Yard," "Step Up" and "Honey" may come to mind. Read more...

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First-year psychobiology student Misha Agunos dances with James Zimmer, the founder of the Global Dance Club. The club will be screening dance movies Wednesday nights in Ackerman Union.

Tonight, the Hammer Museum and the Sundance Institute will come together to screen an unfinished version of director Richard Ray Perez' documentary "Cesar's Last Fast," which follows the last few days of Cesar Chavez's 36-day "Fast for Life" in 1988. Read more...

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Richard Ray Perez (right), director and co-producer of the documentary “Cesar’s Last Fast,” talks with Martin Sheen and co-producer Molly O’Brien on the set of the film. An unfinished version will screen at the Hammer Museum tonight. (courtesy of Monkey Mind Media)

A title like "Douchebag" wasn't one that some of the film's editors were thrilled about initially, but according to Marius Markevicius, the film's producer and a 2002 alumnus of the School of Theater, Film and Television, there was just no other way to describe one of the film's main characters. "One of the brothers is just this incredible jerk," said Markevicius. Read more...

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Ben York Jones, left, and Andrew Dickler, right, star in “Douchebag” a new film produced by 2002 UCLA Theater, Film and Television school graduate Marius Markevicius, which opens at the Nuart Theater on Friday, Oct. 8. The film was shot on a micro-budget.

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