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 trailer for the April film “Kill Your Friends” looks like a mix of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “American Psycho” and “House of Cards.” (Courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment)
The wait is over – and boy, are there some disappointed people out there. On Thursday, Entertainment Weekly was first to report Marvel’s casting of Finn Jones (“Game of Thrones”) as Danny Rand, better known as his masked persona, Iron Fist. Read more...
Photo: Marvel recently cast a white actor to play Iron Fist in the forthcoming Netflix series, despite public demand for an Asian actor to play the superhero. (Courtesy of Marvel)
The delicate art of drawing is not a simple task for Chau. Within the confines of a small wheelchair, his limbs barely allow him to pick up a marker from the jumble of coloring supplies in front of him, let alone create an entire picture. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Courtney Marsh directed “Chau, Beyond the Lines,” a documentary nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short this year. Marsh worked on the film for eight years, filming the artistic pursuits of Agent Orange victim, Chau, in Vietnam. Marsh will be in attendance for Sunday’s award ceremony at the Dolby Theater. (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
Will “The Revenant” sweep the board at this year’s Academy Awards, or will Leonardo DiCaprio fall prey to another snub? Will Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander emerge victorious from hotly contested Actress categories? Read more...
When the average moviegoer today thinks of unrewarded talent, Leonardo DiCaprio springs to mind with his zero-for-four win rate at the Academy Awards. DiCaprio’s association with being snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has become so popular it has reached meme status. Read more...
The nominees in the main acting categories of the 2016 Academy Awards are entirely white. For the second year in a row, the lack of diversity at the Oscars led to big names boycotting the ceremony and the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite trending online. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professor Darnell Hunt compiles the “Hollywood Diversity Report” every year to track the change over time of minority representation in Hollywood productions. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
It seems as if every song flooding radio airwaves and streaming services has an air horn intro and a DJ name drop. Though the act was once synonymous with hip-hop mixtapes, the prevalence of DJ shoutouts seems to grow with each new album release. Read more...
Photo: DJ Khaled marks his song with “We The Best!” (Flowzyt/YouTube)
