Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Read more...
Photo: The newest “Ghostbusters” reboot, to be released July 15, 2016, will feature a predominately female cast. (Courtesy of Columbia Pictures)
There are some combinations in life that go together perfectly: peanut butter and jelly, cats and the Internet, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. In the new film “Zootopia,” Disney returns to the tried and tested formula of animation and talking animals. Read more...
Photo: (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
If Kendrick Lamar’s leftover music were leftover food, it could be sold at the finest restaurant in Los Angeles. Reservations would be fully booked for five years because of the exceptional quality of everything he produces. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Top Dawg Entertainment)
Seas of neon tank tops and running shorts flood UCLA’s campus everyday as students trek to class. A prominent campus culture has developed with large numbers of students wearing athletic clothes to lectures. Read more...
Photo: The athlesiure fashion trend, which consists of workout and gym clothes, is followed by many UCLA students everyday. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Read more...
Photo: UCLA graduate student of ethnomusicology Rose Boomsma, who is also a classical Western flutist, has been learning how to play the Chinese dizi for the past three years. (Anisha Joshi/Daily bruin)
The film industry is full of sharks, but also full of Bruins. Though the road to making it big in Hollywood may be treacherous, UCLA alumni have a long streak of success in the film and television industry. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Max Wiederholt recently founded the talent agency, Mischief Ventured LLC, where writers without agents can submit their work directly to movie producers. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
Mark Royston’s number one rule for “Devised Puppetry Project” was “Don’t read the newspaper.” The articles tended to distract the actors as they built their puppets out of leftover Daily Bruin newspapers. Read more...
Photo: Four UCLA students spent six weeks preparing for “Devised Puppetry Project,” which has no props or dialogue. The actors made the puppets themselves out of Daily Bruin newspapers. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
