Action films should be judged by genre norms
More often than not, filmgoers think of action films as popcorn flicks: mindless entertainment. And there’s good reason for that: Consider The Fast and the Furious franchise, the Transformers trilogy and a handful of comic-book movies in between. Action films in general clearly entertain and tend to perform well at the box office, but often [...]
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, The Master, entertains audiences with knockout performances and controversial themes.
Read the rest of this article »Films should fuel deep religious discussions
Some of the best films address tricky societal themes, reflecting real life issues. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly anticipated The Master, which hits theaters in limited release Sept. 14, is no exception. The film tackles the issue of religion and documents Lancaster “The Master” Dodd’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) pursuit to spread his ever-growing faith-based organization [...]
Read the rest of this article »Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ to be released October 12
The Oscars are usually the last stop for awards season, but with the announcement of the release date for one of the most anticipated films of the year, we now have a date for when awards season will officially begin this year. Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master has been scheduled for a release date of October [...]
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Video from the scene, courtesy of USC Black Student Assembly. Students, alumni, faculty and community members ...
[gallery link="file" ids="67092,67091,67090,67089,67088,67087,67086,67085,67084"] Photos by Razan Al Marzouqi More than 100 students gathered in front of Tommy ...
With a runoff election almost two weeks away, Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy ...
Architect and USC alumnus Anthony Marnell, '72, donated $1 million to the School of Architecture ...
UPDATE: Photos from the scene, courtesy of USC student Christopher James. Multiple USC students were detained ...
On April 3, Assistant Professor of International Relations Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross, who had traveled cross-country from her tenure track position at Colgate University to ...
The Galen Center entered into a deal last week with Nederlander Concerts, a Los Angeles-based company that organizes concerts with venues, to increase the numbers ...
A group of USC students, community members and local artists in Leimert Park are bringing the pay phone back into service — and hoping to ...
A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals that the nation’s higher education system is facing a dropout crisis. Produced in part ...
The prison must be closed as it stands for hypocrisy and infringes upon international human rights. One hundred of the total 166 inmates at the Guantánamo ...
Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron ...
As the USC baseball team enters the final month of its baseball season 11 games under .500, it can at least feel good that it ...
For the No. 4 USC women’s sand volleyball team, its entire season has led up to this tournament. The team will finally be put to the ...
When it comes to dominating the competition in the pool, nobody does it better than the Vavic family. Following a season in which head coach ...
Though Generation Um…includes a star studded cast—Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens—this film surprisingly has more of an indie vibe. Set in New York ...
Though finals loom as obstacles between now and summer, Ground Zero Performance Café has the perfect solution for both cooling down and serving your study ...
Before Disney’s Peter, Wendy, John and Michael flew over “poor Nana” toward Big Ben and continued to the second star to the right and straight ...
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The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...
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