Warning: spoilers ahead. Fresh meat joins the game of cat and mouse – and they’re not clowning around. Last week’s return of “Killing Eve” explored a shaken Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) navigating her life after the chaos of season two’s finale, but this week offers a new slate of characters. Read more...
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Mental health is explored extensively in popular media, from unsettling character studies like “Joker” to lighthearted family flicks such as “Inside Out.” But while some portrayals successfully shine a light on mental health conditions, others merely perpetuate stigmas and stereotypes. Read more...
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Warning: spoilers ahead A critically acclaimed toxic duo is resuming its game of cat and mouse. Sunday night’s “Killing Eve” season three premiere showcased the usual suspects struggling to bear the consequences of their actions from the ending of season two. Read more...
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Don’t mistake “Tigertail” for “Tiger King” – the former is heartfelt, meaningful and an uplifting love letter to family. The Netflix original, written and directed by Alan Yang, follows Pin-Jui (Hong-Chi Lee), an ambitious young Taiwanese man who fulfills his dream of going to America through an arranged marriage to Zhenzhen (Kunjue Li), even if it means leaving behind the woman he loves. Read more...
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Movies require extensive collaboration between both cast and crew members – a nearly impossible feat with social distancing guidelines in effect. In the midst of COVID-19, film and television students are among a subset of those impacted by UCLA’s transition to a remote spring quarter. Read more...
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Mental health is explored extensively in popular media, from unsettling character studies like “Joker” to lighthearted family flicks such as “Inside Out.” But while some portrayals successfully shine a light on mental health conditions, others merely perpetuate stigmas and stereotypes. Read more...
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There is more to Yichi Zhang’s lollipops than meets the eye. These colorful lollipops, which serve as the film’s most attention-grabbing prop, offer the audience a clue to the mystery that permeates the otherwise fantastical world of “Dream Lollipops.” Zhang’s new short film revolves around 15-year-old Su and her mother Yanying, who inadvertently becomes involved in the drug trade when she begins painting lollipops with drugged pigments, unknowingly delivering them to someone involved in the drug trade every day. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Yichi Zhang’s short film “Dream Lollipops” follows the fantastical world of 15-year-old Su and her mother Yanying, who paints lollipops. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
