“One for the Road” likely won’t have its last call anytime soon. Directed by Baz Poonpiriya, the feature film premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival as a contender in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition – and it set the bar opening night. Read more...
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The “Prisoners of the Ghostland” began their journey at the kitchen table. UCLA alumni Aaron Hendry and Reza Safai began writing the script nearly 12 years ago after a conversation about a shared love for spaghetti Westerns. Read more...
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Warning: spoilers ahead. Marvel fans aren’t the only ones obsessively speculating about “WandaVision” – the show’s characters have whiteboards chock full of theories as well. Episode four retraces the story of Geraldine (Teyonah Parris), Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany)’s supposed neighbor who is revealed to be Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) – an agent of the intelligence agency S.W.O.R.D. Read more...
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Westwood, lock your doors before watching this one. On Friday, writer-director John Lee Hancock’s newest feature “The Little Things“ premiered in select theaters and on HBO Max. Read more...
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“Cobra Kai” shows no mercy when it comes to streaming numbers, but a conversation on the show’s cultural influence strikes hard amid such success. Continuing the story of “The Karate Kid” films more than 20 years later, “Cobra Kai” finds Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) resurrecting their respective karate dojos and getting just about everyone in their lives entrenched in their morally gray rivalry. Read more...
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Hollywood’s absurdity is laid bare in Edwin Porres Jr.’s first-ever feature film. The UCLA Extension alumnus along with his wife and alumna, Jaime Porres, wrote and produced “Hóllyweird,” an independent feature film detailing the struggles of Latinos in Hollywood with a satirical twist. Read more...
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, many have seen a drastic change in how and where they consume entertainment. While movie theaters have been the more prominent mode of content consumption compared to streaming services in the past, the latter seems to have caught up, if not exceeded, in relevance lately. Read more...
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