?Raise Your Voice? Directed by Sean McNamara New Line Cinema When you think of Hilary Duff, Ludwig van Beethoven probably isn?t the first person who comes to mind. Read more...

The wildly popular Italian cinema class, known informally to students as “Sex and Politics” and formally as Italian 46, has introduced many undergraduates to great cinematic legends such as Roberto Rossellini and Bernardo Bertolucci. Read more...

Actor Terrell Tilford is completely irritated with the fact that he keeps getting questioned about performing nude on stage. “I don’t really understand why,” he said. Read more...

Philosopher Thomas Hobbes once famously stated, “The life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” If you are a political science student like myself, it’s more than likely that one of your professors has asked or will ask you to ponder the meaning of these words. Read more...

Brian Wilson “SMiLE” Warner Music Group Rating: Hype is relative. For instance, using it in reference to, say, Franz Ferdinand is one thing. But when discussing “SMiLE,” it can’t quite convey the mythic expectations heaped upon rock’s now-legendary great lost album, Brian Wilson’s abandoned follow-up to “Pet Sounds” and response to the Beatles’ “Revolver” ““ both usually seen standing side by side at the top of most greatest albums lists. Read more...

For directors Joel Juarez Sanchez and Alberto Barboza, both UCLA alumni, box-office success is the last thing on their minds. Their films received numerous awards this summer, including a shared award for Best Short at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. Read more...

She’s capable of packing a stadium of 30,000 people back home in South America, but now vocalist Eva Ayllon is looking to fill a venue that holds fewer than 2,000 people in the United States. Read more...