Film - Campus Circle

Recent Film Articles

Paper Heart

When Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman unleashed their collaboration, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it immediately made...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Tapped

With the mounting concern over the county’s water shortage (and Los Angeles’ existing tap water stigma), many Angelenos...

Melissa Russell

Film Interviews

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra's Ray Park

A master of wushu and sword work, Ray Park initially made a career playing the faceless and voiceless, but with his role as Snake...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Thirst

Thirst is the latest film from Park Chan-wook, the acclaimed director of Oldboy and I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK....

Nick Day

Film TV Time

Shark Week

It’s hardly ever discussed, but everyone wonders about sharks when they’re at the beach. It might be when they’re...

C. Molly Smith

Film TV Time

Whatta Man

Thomas Jane is no stranger to the notion of a man making his living with his well-endowed family jewels. The actor, mostly known...

Yuri Shimoda

Film Projections

13th Annual Docuweeks

Great documentaries can win awards at Cannes and Sundance, but an Academy Award is a little trickier. In order to qualify for...

Sarah Bennett

Film Movie Reviews

Thirst

What is it with the recent surge of vampire media? I mean, I’ll admit, I liked Twilight (the novel) just as much as the...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

Not Quite Hollywood

Correct me if I’m wrong but the only thing the American Cinema Blockbuster Machine has produced so far this summer is a...

Geoffrey Altrocchi

Film Movie Reviews

Lorna’s Silence

Lorna’s Silence, a hyper-realistic and purposefully naturalistic drama, is set in a dreary Belgium and highlights the bleak...

Melissa Evalle

Film Movie Reviews

Local Color

So I have a confession to make: I love Ron Perlman. The man can do no wrong in my eyes. Whether he has to speak French in The...

Melissa Russell

Film Movie Reviews

The Cove

Well-deserving winner of the Audience Award at Sundance, The Cove is an astonishing exposé of the dolphin industry in...

Natasha Desianto

Film Interviews

Aliens in the Attic

Vampires are so in right now – just ask the 14-year-olds giggling over the tabloid spreads of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart...

Lauren Barbato

Film Interviews

Adam

In Adam, a beautiful, simple, heartbreaking film, Rose Byrne and Hugh Dancy play New Yorkers who meet in the laundry room of...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

The Ugly Truth

Perhaps there is no greater truth in life than this: Opposites attract. If you don’t believe me, just ask Paula Abdul....

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

American Cowslip

It’s the age of addiction, and everyone’s an addict. The media, politicians and anyone with power treats us that...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Shrink

What happens when the person you depend on to keep you sane is coming unhinged? Shrink asks that question. Kevin Spacey stars...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

In the Loop

In the Loop is a movie so British, in the beginning, it’s almost like watching a foreign film without subtitles. But, much...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth installment in the Potter series, but this franchise is no longer child’s...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Valerie Cruz

She has worked with some of television’s hottest hunks, but there’s a reason Valerie Cruz is swooning for Ray Liotta. “I...

Candice Winters

Film Movie Reviews

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America

Just when I was thinking ‘what the world needs right now is another film that gives Vikings a bad name,’ along comes...

Natasha Desianto

Film Movie Reviews

Homecoming

Does a girl, or anyone for that matter, ever forget her first love? Many experience first love in high school and college during...

Jessica Goodman

Film Movie Reviews

Death in Love

The title is hardly a metaphor in writer-director Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love, a painfully self-indulgent art film. Yes,...

Lauren Barbato

Film Movie Reviews

The Answer Man

What would you do if you had inadvertently created an international spiritual movement from which you could not escape? That’s...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Afghan Star

What greater social equality can you imagine than the power to text message a vote for your favorite singer? In Afghanistan,...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Projections

Monty Python Double Feature

British comedy troupe Monty Python is to comedy what Mel Brooks is to Judaism, what the Lonely Island is for frat boys and what...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

In The Loop

An argument can easily be made that a great political satire has not been released since Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove...

Lauren Barbato

Film Interviews

Humpday

Is it possible to do something so gay that is makes you straighter? That’s one of the central questions in Humpday, Lynn...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

(500) Days of Summer

It’s so rare for a film to honestly evoke or replicate the experience of falling in love and even more unusual for it to...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Weather Girl

Have you seen the types of romantic comedies that are getting produced for large audiences lately? I mean, really, who saw The...

Melissa Russell