Justin Vu’s “Solstice” explores the rustic wonders of Alaska. The computer-animated adventure short film will be the animation graduate student’s third and final production done through the UCLA Animation Workshop, Vu said. Read more...
Photo: Animator Matt Groening (left) poses alongside graduate student in fine arts student Justin Vu (right) for his 3D animated short film “Solstice.” (Courtesy of Valerie Lettera-Spletzer)
Caitlyn Ruggiero is anything but blocked. During her final quarter at UCLA, the fourth-year communication student said she was preparing her film, “Blocked.” Graduating with a minor in film, television and digital media, the writer and director said she produced the short through her professional film fraternity, Delta Kappa Alpha. Read more...
Photo: As a member of film fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha and fourth-year communication student, Caitlyn Ruggiero (pictured) said she wrote “Blocked” based off of her experience with a previous breakup. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated June 1 at 8:54 p.m. Kym Barrett is offering aspiring costume designers the “red pill.” Barrett, the costume and set designer for films such as “The Matrix” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is mentoring students as the designer-in-residence this month at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Read more...
Photo: Costume designer Kym Barrett (left) is the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s designer in residence for this month. Barrett has worked on films such as “Romeo + Juliet,” “The Matrix” and “Us.” (Courtesy of Kym Barrett)
This post was updated May 30 at 8:27 p.m. Hawkins is only getting stranger from here. Premiering Friday, the first volume of the fourth season of “Stranger Things” picks up several months after the third season’s Battle of Starcourt – this time with the supernatural force-fighting entourage split between California and Indiana. Read more...
Photo: Newcomer Eduardo Franco joins returners Charlie Heaton, Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp and Finn Wolfhard in the first volume of season four of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” (Courtesy of Netflix)
From lighthearted rom-coms to bloodcurdling horror flicks, movies tend to follow a formula for storytelling made successful by the predecessors of their genres. Given the recurring character and narrative archetypes that characterize each genre, people have come to know and identify with these tropes by relating them to their own lives. Read more...
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A24’s latest horror flick just barely delivers in its chilling social commentary. Released in theaters Friday, “Men” follows troubled widow Harper (Jessie Buckley) as she retreats to the countryside, where a mysterious being in the woods begins to terrorize her – a classic but overused horror movie trope. Read more...
Photo: Jessie Buckley plays Harper Marlowe in A24’s “Men.” (Courtesy of A24)
This story was updated May 15 at 10:40 p.m. In terms of nostalgia, “Senior Year” is making the grade. The teen flick follows 17-year-old Stephanie Conway (Rebel Wilson) as she cheerleads her way to the top of her high school’s social hierarchy in the early 2000s. Read more...
Photo: Rebel Wilson plays Stephanie Conway in Netflix’s “Senior Year.” (Courtesy of Boris Martin/Netflix)
