Unlike the bewildered woman swallowed by the unruly machine of the modern world in the 1928 expressionist drama “Machinal,” director Jonathan Gellert has been making his own in the world. Read more...

“Hostage” Directed by Florent Siri Miramax Films French director Florent Siri’s American debut film “Hostage” is more than just the next big Hollywood crime thriller. Based on the book by Robert Crais, “Hostage” follows Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an emotionally scarred former LAPD hostage negotiator, who recently became the clean-cut chief of police in a low-crime community in Ventura. Read more...

When indie pop band Xiu Xiu plays at the Cooperage on March 7 through Campus Events, it will be one stop on a tour that begins in the United States but will eventually lead the band overseas to countries such as Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary and Italy. Read more...

I’ve been called a lot of things over the years, but the new name coming from friends these days is “elitist.” It’s never in so many words, but the image that’s more or less conjured up is that of Diane Keaton in “Manhattan,” when she’s babbling on about her “Academy of the Overrated,” slamming geniuses like F. Read more...

Thirty years ago, Los Lobos was just a garage band in East Los Angeles. And as a band whose success is deeply indebted to its members’ cultural heritage as Mexican Americans, Los Lobos has decided to make its 30-year anniversary tour an acoustic one in order to celebrate its musical roots. Read more...

UCLA alumna Sadaf Cohen Muncy always knew she wanted to work with children. Medical school, in her mind, was the way to go. “I was pre-med for a couple years,” Muncy said. Read more...

When Brian Crano graduated from the UCLA theater department at the tender age of 18, he assumed that someday he would become an actor or a Broadway chorus boy; he had very little connection to the world of playwriting. Read more...