Michelle Castillo

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• Film Review: "Bruno"

  July 13, 2009 at 12:15 a.m.

  Warning: If you are looking for a film to take your parents to, you’ll probably want to stay away from Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest movie, “Bruno.”
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  Commencement speaker set in Stone

  June 8, 2009 at 12:15 a.m.

  When it comes to creating controversy, nobody does it like Oliver Stone.

• Short films to screen in Ackerman

  May 28, 2009 at 1:43 a.m.

  Picture this: A psychotic killer is coming after you to make sure that your next breath is your last. Only, he’s got one hang-up: Being an environmentally conscious consumer, he has to make sure his electrically powered chainsaw has enough energy to take your life, “green” style.

• Dancers battle in clash of the crews

  May 1, 2009 at 12:01 a.m.

  It could be considered the showdown of the year: three campus dance groups competing for the prestige of being known as the best dance crew.

• Weekend Review: Animal Collective

  March 2, 2009 at midnight

  Just like there’s no real way to classify the music of Animal Collective, there’s no correct method of explaining the experience of attending their concert last Thursday night. You just had to be there.

• Alum writers at the Oscars

  Feb. 19, 2009 at 1:44 a.m.

  Despite the fact that it had happened three times before for Eric Roth and it was an entirely new experience for Lance Black, Oscar nomination announcements had both men up early with their televisions, tuned to their local news channel.

• Alum’s film right on the button

  Feb. 19, 2009 at 12:05 a.m.

  Frank Marshall might almost have it all. Notably one of Hollywood’s most successful producers, he’s lent his talents to blockbuster movies such as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “The Color Purple” and “The Sixth Sense.”

• Four degrees, eight arms, one man

  Feb. 18, 2009 at 7:54 a.m.

  After getting his undergraduate degree in computer science at UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, Emud Mokhberi took the next logical step and went for his master’s of science in computer science. Little did he know that an animation class that he took for fun would eventually lead to a form of professional success known by many but received by a select few: an Oscar nomination.

• Treasure-hunting documentary ‘Loot’ uncovers surprising connections

  Feb. 17, 2009 at 9:29 a.m.

  Had it not been for the purely coincidental fact that Darius Marder shared a park bench in Brooklyn with Dan Campbell, a man who had a story to tell about treasure hunters, there is a large possibility that his film, “Loot,” would have never been made.

• A relationship built from music and love

  Feb. 4, 2009 at midnight

  It is an unspoken rule in acting that if a couple portrays a romantic couple on-screen, they typically will not have any chemistry. Take the failed “Gigli,” staring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, or even “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The actors may have been in some state of happy coupledom in real life at the time of filming, but unfortunately this didn’t translate to the screen.