FILM&TV: “Meet the Fockers” As the sequel to the offbeat but hilarious “Meet the Parents,” “Fockers” brings back Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, the “male nurse” with more than his fair share of problems. Read more...

The oven is your friend. When used properly, your oven can help you make a batch of cookies more cheaply than you can buy them at Diddy Riese, and it tosses in some perks, too: You get a warm, nice-smelling apartment and culinary bragging rights. Read more...

For most people who enjoy an aesthetic as fluid as ballet, technology and mechanics seem to reside leagues away from conventional symbols like tutus and pointe shoes. Read more...

Perhaps the UCLA theater department knew who the most influential voters would be in the 2004 election when it chose its lineup of plays for the winter. Read more...

They say you can never count on a sure thing. This is never more true than around the time when the Oscar nominations come out. Every year at 5:30 a.m. Read more...

Bad labels and obscurity can often hurt good movies. That’s why the UCLA Film and Television Archive uses “The Film That Inspired Me” series to help big-name artists catapult little-known, underrated films into the limelight they deserve. Read more...

Squashed between “Conversations with History” and “A Prologue to Chaucer,” an episode of “UCLA Next” aired nationwide last Tuesday on the UCTV station. “UCLA Next,” a half-hour documentary-style show, is produced by a television production class. Read more...