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Many films need a hook to get you to see them, and reasons to keep your interest once you’re there. The producers of Atlas Shrugged: Part I forgot that idiom. This is not a movie. This is an anti-mo...
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On Sunday afternoon, as part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Student Appreciation Free Event Series, hundreds of students filed into Campbell Hall for a free afternoon with John Cleese.
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What do James Franco, Danny McBride, Justin Theroux and a hung Minotaur have to do with UCSB?
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At 8:30 p.m. on Thursday night, nearly 800 UCSB students lined up outside the UCen trying to hide the fact that they were stoned, drunk or rolling from the dozens of Community Service Officers and pol...
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On Saturday, April 2, Uh Huh Her hit the dimly-lit, masculine stage of Velvet Jones with a wave of femininity.
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On Monday, April 4, UCSB Arts & Lectures welcomed American cartoonist Roz Chast to speak to a small audience.
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Usually, the title of a movie indicates the direction the film will follow. Sometimes these titles lead us astray.
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Heading to New Orleans with your father and his friends for Spring Break is few people’s idea of a good time.
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This film is an amalgamation of all the basic male pre-teen fantasies: hot chicks in skimpy outfits, killer robots, machine guns, swordplay, explosions, samurais, dragons, etc.
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Los Angeles is ugly as sin and full of adorable, desperate, dogged hopes.
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Gore Verbinski’s “Rango” tells the familiar tale of a sheltered animal hurled from captivity into the savage wilderness.
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Armed with a strong lead and a plot rife with twists and turns, “The Lincoln Lawyer” is an exciting and entertaining courtroom drama.
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The continuing wane of the economy has not only affected ticket sales, but movie themes as well. Much of the cinema released today discusses the recession and the various responses to hard economic ti...
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On Saturday night, UCSB group Kapatirang Pilipino’s benefit talent showcase went from sublime to tragically ridiculous.
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Whether or not you’ll enjoy the film “Drive Angry” is based entirely on how many times you roll your eyes while reading the synopsis.
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
