Some documentary filmmakers find past wars and Secretaries of Defense interesting enough subjects for their films. Ross McElwee prefers ideas he finds in his own backyard. Read more...

While film companies seem to be closing down their 2-D animation studios in favor of digital work, UCLA’s animation department is keeping its doors open. As 3-D animation becomes an increasingly popular and accepted form, many UCLA students are finding that making the switch requires more than putting down a pencil and picking up a mouse. Read more...

“Eurotrip” Directed by Jeff Schaffer Dreamworks Just when movie-goers started to think they were locked in a perpetual cycle of bad bathroom humor, “Eurotrip” brings something new. Read more...

Now that I think about it, before last Sunday I’d never watched an entire Grammy Awards telecast. Actually, I still haven’t. I just couldn’t make it. Read more...

“The Dreamers” Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Fox Searchlight Pictures The fact that Fox Searchlight Pictures has dared to release an uncut, overtly (if not overly) sexual Bernardo Bertolucci film and appropriately label it as such ““ the film received the rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association ““ is exciting. Read more...

Creme Blush Silverlake Lounge Feb. 18, 8 p.m. Hot girls from New York with new wave haircuts will make you dance and most likely have far cooler shoes than anyone in the club. Read more...

Blood. Gore. Attractive women. Cheap thrills and even cheaper effects. Ah, yes. The elements of every old horror movie, right? Wrong. The UCLA Film and Television Archive hopes to show that these stereotypes are not the only elements to make up horror pictures. Read more...