“The Boy” offers screams, builds slowly to horror
“The Boy” is the best horror movie to come out in January in ages. Granted, that’s not praise of the highest caliber, but it is praise. The movie has some…
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Beal finds harmony of music, film
The name of Jeff Beal may not be as well-known as “House of Cards,” the Netflix original series on Washington politics, but the show owes much of its popularity to…
The Drunk and the Elephant redefines horror film tropes
courtesy of Sam Rebelein We’ve all seen it. That scene. The one with the girl running—usually away from a killer or creature. It’s pretty standard in horror movies, from the…
Artoberfest to spotlight local marginalized musicians
Courtesy of PWR BTTM via Facebook As college students living on a pretty small campus, we are constantly within a bubble. Most of us stay on campus and rarely leave.…
Boyle surprises with nuanced Jobs film
The best film I saw at this year’s Telluride Film Festival was surprisingly the film I thought for better or for worse would represent Hollywood at its most mediocrely mainstream.…
Vice Film kick-off event brings alum back to campus
The short film Mulignans opens in an homage to stereotypical Italian film gangsters. Three black men sit on the stoop of a Brooklyn Brownstone. They smoke cigarettes, file their nails…
Farhadi’s film small-scale but far-reaching
There has always been a steady interest in the alternative, art house, academic-minded film circles for Iranian cinema, but more widespread investment in the nationality as it pertains to movies…
French film offers turns, surprises
The chief preoccupation of the films of adventuresome French filmmaker Olivier Assayas is the proverbial passing of the baton. His latest, sixteenth feature, “Clouds of Sils Maria,” is a flawed…
Plain, pure production sets Baumbach apart
I’d be hard-pressed to find a more apt comparison of the way different generations consume their media than the one to be found in a key moment that occurs in…
‘Whiplash’ tells tale of educational woes
Despite acknowledging that “Birdman”’s triumph at this year’s Academy Awards was well-deserved, my personal pick was and is still “Whiplash,” directed by Damien Chazelle. Perhaps I adore this film since…