Forget “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Kingdom of Heaven.” As far as I’m concerned, today’s release of “Star Wars: Episode III ““ Revenge of the Sith” marks the unofficial start to the summer movie season. Read more...

The iPod useless? Mail-order fetuses? An English nut preaching Tom Clancy on Bruin Walk? These completely arbitrary ideas seem crazy at first because, well, they are. Read more...

While West Hollywood is known for promoting the rights of its gay and lesbian community, this week the city will go international ““ Amnesty International, that is ““ as it hosts the organization’s fourth annual film festival. Read more...

Dear Mr. George Lucas, I would like to congratulate you. You have the done the impossible, thought the unthinkable, imagined the unimaginable. You have completed your hexology ““ six films by no means remotely ordinary or formulaic. Read more...

The “Star Wars” Geek: For some, the term can be insulting; for others, empowering. But for most, it’s just downright embarrassing. “You don’t want the first thing people know about you to be that you love “˜Star Wars,'” said second-year economics student Marshall Jaquish. Read more...

Few things make you feel more out of place than being smack in the middle of a music scene you just don’t belong in. Such was the case last Friday, when I found myself in an auditorium of high schoolers moshing like possessed animals to heavy metal. Read more...

State budget cuts over the past two years have affected nearly every inch of the UCLA campus in some way or another. But these cuts have hit the university’s performing arts departments especially hard and, in turn, have forced department chairs to devise innovative ways to raise additional funds and support for their programs, especially for student and faculty concerts. Read more...