Is Westworld a sign of the end of Peak TV? It looks and feels like a great TV show. It has lots of people making cryptic pronouncements on the show’s carefully telegraphed weighty themes, pretty sets which look like they cost a lot of money,
A new set of images are going up around campus to honor alum Luke Somers’08, who was killed in 2014 while working as a photojournalist in Yemen. The six professionally framed photographs on display were donated to the College by fellow alum and friend of
On Friday, March 31, Professor Carla Davis and her Race, Self, and Society class took the train into Chicago to the Gene Siskel Film Center to watch a documentary written by James Baldwin and entitled I Am Not Your Negro. The documentary was released in
There is a growing feeling that the study of classics is becoming irrelevant. Many view its texts as being high-level and elitist. But as this problem continues to grow, many people have taken the opportunity to translate classic tales into a narrative that everyone can
“Double double, toil and trouble…” So say William Shakespeare’s Three Weird Sisters, whose words aptly describe the tremendous preparation currently under way for this year’s production of Macbeth, directed by John Kaufmann. Kaufmann’s cast and crew have been working on Macbeth for the better part
Trainspotting is my favorite movie. The 1996 cult classic, which tells the tale of a group of Scottish heroin addicts trying to make the perfect score, has become something of a cultural touchstone. Thanks to its innovative direction by Danny Boyle, whip-smart dialogue penned by
The closest I can come to a description of Toni Erdmann’s tone is to ask that you imagine a nearly three hour absurdist episode of The Office, where the cringe worthy moments have been dialed up to eleven but the catharsis of a laugh out
Curse Words, a three piece indie/emo band from Pittsburgh, arrived on campus this Friday and, after eating some tamales, drinking some beer and playing some video games, sat down to talk with me. The band was missing its bassist, Cal Tarasi, because, in the words
In 1896, Alice Guy-Blache directed one of the world’s first ever narrative films, La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy). For the next 10 years, it’s guessed by historians that she was probably the only female director in the world. Female representation behind the camera
Spoilers for the most recent season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia below. The beloved cult classic It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia recently wrapped its 12th season, and the show’s future has never looked more unsteady. This most recent season was one of experimentation —