As the 2019 Oscars draw near, the ceremony’s controversies have been steadily increasing as well. Much of the backlash coming from members of Hollywood stems from the show-runners’ head-scratching decision to only televise certain categories, while public anger is centered around the proposed addition ...
The Movie: Come and See The Year: 1985The People: Aleksey Kravchenko as Flyora, the decaying childbearing witness to the evilest of evils, Elem Klimov as the film's director and Ales Adamovich as the screenwriter, relaying the horrors he lived through in his youth. The Non-Revealing Plot: In 1943, ...
In recent years, Netflix has increased the number of Korean original programs distributed on its platform, with “Kingdom” (2018–) being the latest addition to this growing list of productions.The drama series has a few hit-makers in its credits: screenwriter Kim Eun-hee also wrote the well-received ...
Released on Feb. 5, “The Wandering Earth” (2019), China’s debut sci-fi film spectacle, is now playing in Boston. The film was adapted from a novella of the same name by author Liu Cixin, winner of numerous prestigious sci-fi awards within and outside China, such as the Galaxy Award, the Locus ...
The demographics of the SMFA shuttle are pretty consistent. There are always tired-looking dual-degree students, a few Bachelor of Fine Arts students and one of the five drivers that we have come to know and (mostly) love. Someone will be holding a Rubi machine coffee, someone will be struggling to ...
Netflix’s new series, "Russian Doll" (2019–) contains a premise that has been featured in film and television numerous times: The protagonist, Nadia (Natasha Lyonne), keeps dying and reliving the same day. With this premise, however, the show takes the viewer to a place only possible ...
Anyone who plans on reading this column long term should probably be warned that they're going to be hearing a lot about Warren Ellis. A one-in-a-million freak of the comic book industry, Ellis is the kind of creator that takes the medium and turns it on its head. Whether it’s injecting X-files ...
This weekend, the Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies is putting a bold new twist on the Shakespearean comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” directed by Senior Lecturer Sheriden Thomas. The rendition is set in a world inspired by the Golden Age of Hollywood, complete with the ...
Defining a genre for any film can be tricky, but actor-filmmaker Fawzia Mirza has a very specific one in mind for her 2017 feature-length debut “Signature Move,” which was screened at a lecture organized by the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and co-sponsored by the LGBT Center last ...
Ariana Grande is arguably one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She’s practically breaking records left and right, from becoming just the fifth artist to have multiple songs debut on top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “7 rings” to her music video for “thank u, next” breaking YouTube’s ...
As Tufts students, the Red Line is our best friend for when we want to get into the city. There are various other ways to travel to Cambridge or Boston, but they aren’t nearly as quick or reliable as our dearly beloved subway cars. However, the convenience of the Red Line comes at a cost: it discourages ...
In honor of the Year of the Pig, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) held Lunar New Year celebration last Saturday, Feb. 9. In addition to free admission, the museum offered events celebrating the new year and traditions from China, Korea and Vietnam.The MFA itself hosted some of these talks and activities, ...
Netflix's attempt to control every second of our attention and free time continued this weekend with the release of Steven Soderbergh's "High Flying Bird" (2019).The film takes place over a span of 72 hours as super sports agent Ray Burke (André Holland) attempts to help end a labor ...
The Movie: “Badlands”The Year: 1973The People: Martin Sheen as the charismatic yet subdued murderer Kit Carruthers, Sissy Spacek as the doe-eyed, chronically unsure and unaware Holly Sargis and Terrence Malick as the visionary first-time director.The Non-Revealing Plot: Kit Carruthers starts a relationship ...
“If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018) is the newest film by Barry Jenkins, the writer and director of "Moonlight" (2016) and the movie is an adaptation of the James Baldwin novel by the same name, which follows the trials and triumphs of a young black couple in New York. It is a slice-of-life ...
“The gods are real. And they have kids. And those kids have issues,” a Greek choir of tweens bemoans in the opening of "The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical" (2017), which played at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester, Mass. last weekend. That display of raw sixth-grade angst was ...
From Feb. 1 to Feb. 28, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) presents the Boston Festival of Films from Japan.The featured films represent various genres, including animation, fiction and documentary films. The films also touch on a variety of themes and subjects. Two films, specifically “Maquia: When ...
'How come (insert superhero here) doesn’t just kill the bad guys? Then the bad guys wouldn’t be able to get out and hurt more people,' inquire many comic book fans. Ok, enough with the straw man. Comic book heroes who don’t kill people shouldn’t start, and I can think of no better example ...
On Feb. 5, comedy duo Tiny Meat Gang performed at the Middle East nightclub in Cambridge, one of 37 stops on their eponymously named “Tiny Meat Tour.” The duo consists of Cody Ko and Noel Miller, two former software engineers who have spent the better part of the last two years producing content ...
The very same Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) gallery that hosted Takashi Murakami’s "Superflat" monsters and 19th century Japanese paintings last year is now, as the site for the exhibition “Ansel Adams in Our Time,” temporarily home to the transcendentalist photographs of Ansel Adams ...
