Marvel’s latest legend has arrived, and his name is Shang-Chi. Released Friday in select theaters, including Westwood’s Regency theater, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” centers around lazy hotel valet, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), as he is forced to return home to fight the demons of his past, including his father and leader of the powerful Ten Rings organization, Xu Wenwu (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung). Read more...
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BabyJake isn’t growing up just yet. With his debut album “The Sun Wakes Up Earlier Now” scheduled to drop Friday, the rising artist said the record is a hodgepodge of everything from country twang to house grooves. Read more...
Photo: Rising artist Jake Herring, better known as BabyJake, talked to the Daily Bruin about his debut album “The Sun Wakes Up Earlier Now.” (Courtesy of Paris Mumpower)
This post was updated Sept. 6 at 8:31 p.m. Closely related keys create chaos and harmony, but ultimately are all quite similar. Alumnus Wendy Graf’s play “Closely Related Keys” debuted Aug. Read more...
Photo: Written by alumnus Wendy Graf, “Closely Related Keys” follows the story of a work-driven Black lawyer, her long lost Iraqi half sister and her white male coworker, reflecting various racial relations and themes of unconditional love. (Courtesy of Andrew Hofstetter)
Never one to shy away from his Christian faith, Kanye West dropped his latest album on a Sunday. The 27-track, nearly two-hour album dedicated to his late mother comes after a hectic year-plus rollout, and “Donda” is quite clearly the furthest from a concise effort for the virtuoso producer and wordsmith. Read more...
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This post was updated Sept. 12 at 7:25 p.m. Extravagant Las Vegas mansions paint everything from wealth to weakness in “Hacks.” The HBO Max comedy-drama follows the unexpected relationship between esteemed Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her equally sarcastic millennial counterpart Ava (Hannah Einbinder) after the former unwillingly winds up hiring the latter in an attempt to appeal to a younger audience. Read more...
Photo: Jon Carlos, an alumnus and production designer for HBO Max’s drama-comedy “Hacks” was nominated for outstanding production design for a half-hour narrative program. He said the production design reflected everything from the characters’ extravagance to loneliness. (Photo courtesy of Annie McElwain. Photo illustration by Katelyn Dang/Illustrations director)
Marco Williams finds historical writing more intertwined with the present than ever. The writer and alumnus is nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program for his work on “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre.” The History Channel documentary focuses on the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which the prosperous Black community of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was burned down by a white mob. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus and writer Marco Williams was nominated for outstanding writing for a nonfiction program for his work on the History Channel’s “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre,” which discusses the history of violence against the prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the subsequent resilience of the Black residents. (Photo courtesy of Marco Williams. Photo illustration by Katelyn Dang/Illustrations director)
This post was updated Aug. 29 at 5:05 p.m. In the interrogation room, there are two men of the world, but no men of God. Director Amber Sealey brings the story of Ted Bundy back to the big screen in “No Man of God,” framed in a new light. Read more...
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