Tuesday, January 13

Trailer Talk: ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’

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 latest trailer for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” was released Wednesday and features a brutal fight sequence between Batman and a gang of thugs, showcasing a more fluid fighting style than the character had in previous incarnations. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. via YouTube)


Film festival promotes Latin American and Iberian culture, languages

The sounds and rhythms of the Spanish guitar swirled through the mind of an 80-year-old man, making him feel 17 again. The old man was watching “Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona,” a movie about a famous Barcelonian flamenco dancer, which triggered a memory of learning flamenco during his teenage years. Read more...

Photo: Adrián Collado (left), a Spanish literature graduate student, has organized four Latin American and Iberian Film Festivals to date. The festival screens award-winning films from Spain, South American and Central American countries to audiences interested in learning more about the Spanish language or the many cultures portrayed in the films. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)




Mindy Kaling, Jonas Rivera discuss making of ‘Inside Out’

In 2012, Bill Hader told Mindy Kaling he was involved in a secret Pixar project involving emotions when they were shooting the pilot episode of “The Mindy Project.” Initially jealous, Kaling said she later gleefully told Hader he wasn’t so special anymore when she too was added to the cast of “Inside Out” a year later. Read more...

Photo: (Pixar)


For talent agent Natalie Novak, digital media is the future

When Grace Helbig, Connor Franta and several other Internet stars checked into hotel rooms two years ago while attending the world’s largest online video conference, VidCon, something caught their attention. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Extension alumna Natalie Novak helped plan VidCon, the world’s largest online video conference. As a digital media agent, her clients include iJustine, Joey Graceffa and jiffpom. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Q&A: UCLA’s Tom Nunan talks Academy Award nominee ‘Son of Saul’

In the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where there is hope for neither survival nor redemption, a Sonderkommando becomes obsessed with giving one boy a proper burial. Read more...

Photo: Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig stars as Saul in the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film, “Son of Saul.” The film, directed by László Nemes, will be screened at the James E. Bridges Theater on Tuesday, followed by a Q&A with Nemes and Röhrig. (Courtesy of Hungarian National Film Fund)



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