Wednesday, April 29

Movie review: ‘Finding Dory’

Viewers of “Finding Dory” can be as forgetful as Dory and still follow her story. There’s no need to remember what happened in Disney’s 2003 hit “Finding Nemo.” In “Finding Dory,” the adorable and heart-warming blue tang fish, Dory, goes through a series of pitfalls to find her long-lost parents. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)


Hammer Museum’s Bloomsday celebration brings ‘Ulysses’ to life

About 300 people celebrated Irish author James Joyce at the Hammer Museum on Thursday. The international celebration Bloomsday honors James Joyce and his 1922 novel “Ulysses” every year on June 16. Read more...

Photo: Six songs were performed at the seventh annual Bloomsday program at the Hammer Museum. Five of them were Irish folk tunes. (Emaan Baqai/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Get A College Life

“Family Ties” actress Justine Bateman became a UCLA Bruin four years ago. Get her insight on what it’s like to “get a college life,” as her blog puts it, once you’ve passed the traditional college age, and why she loved it. Read more...

Photo: (Sandra Carbonell-Kiamtia and Justine Sto.Tomas/Daily Bruin)


Showcase offers student screenwriters access to industry professionals

Monday’s Screenwriters Showcase will feature student scripts from the MFA screenwriting program, but there’s more to the competition than winning, organizers said. Graduating students’ goal is to get their scripts read by industry professionals who have the power to give them their start in entertainment. Read more...

Photo: Shoshana Sachi, Alice Stennard and Fior Fabian (left to right) will complete the UCLA MFA screenwriting program this year, after helping organize the annual Screenwriters Showcase. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo Editor)



For their final trick, senior members of MIST will graduate from UCLA

A student magician walked onto the Northwest Campus Auditorium stage with a bag full of newspaper clippings. He shook 10 clippings and the audience gasped as the pieces took the form of an unscathed issue of the Daily Bruin. Read more...

Photo: Magic and Illusion Student Team senior member Mike Li plans to pursue industrial/organizational psychology. However, magic will always remain a hobby for Li. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)