It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the Duplass brothers have dominated the indie movie/Sundance scene lately. The Mumblecore genre, which they ultimately pioneered along with Joe Swanberg in which low-budget, sometimes improved work is emphasized, has become a festival favorite. The brothers ...
Writer's note: Warning! Spoilers for “Game of Thrones” season five to follow.HBO released a slew of new images last week from the upcoming sixth season of “Game of Thrones” (2011–present), just before a teaser for the new season leaked on Sunday, with anticipation now at a fever pitch ...
If you visited any independent coffee shops or juice bars in 2014, you are undoubtedly acquainted with “Elevate,” the infectious synthpop hit from South African indie musician St. Lucia. “Elevate” exemplifies the unique sound on St. Lucia’s debut album “When the Night” (2013): 80s synth, ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.“...and if I find out you’ve given my name to any mailing lists, there WILL be hell to pay!”Finding her tirade’s target out of earshot, Cecilia stood on the curb for a moment, allowing herself the indulgence of a self-righteousness ...
Hillary Clinton haters around the country are surely rejoicing: Michael Bay has made a movie just for them! Indeed, the director’s latest flick, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” is unabashedly tailored to the conservative crowd, and, for Clinton detractors eager for another chance ...
Being a fan of a prolific author is always a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the odds of running out of books to read are significantly lower and you can look forward to a new book at fairly regular intervals. On the other, quality can sometimes vary wildly and an author who produces a stunning ...
A cappella is choral ensemble for millennials, according to my extended family who refer to my cappella group as a “chorus.” They aren’t completely off the mark, but I hesitate to correct gram and gramps to inform them that a cappella is not simply choral music minus the piano. Pedantry has ...
Subtlety isn’t Spike Lee’s forte. It never has been, and it never will be. In some respects, his heavy-handed approach suits his body of work, which is as political and moral as it is artistic — as concerned with imparting a strong message as it is with entertaining its audiences, if not more ...
In 1985, the academic Neil Postman published “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” a scathing polemic on how modern media has degraded public discourse by reducing everything — politics, religion, education and journalism — to entertainment. His dire warnings, which might once have seemed alarmist ...
Ellie Gan is a sophomore in Chi-Omega who works at LF, a women's clothing store, in Harvard Square. Ellie describes her style as unique yet refined. I sat down with Ellie to hear about her fashion inspirations, her style recommendations and to learn more about her everyday fashion.Parker Selman: ...
CW’s telenovela-inspired "Jane the Virgin" began in 2014 with a simple premise: Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), a young teacher-in-training and aspiring romance novelist, promises her devout Catholic abuela that she will wait until marriage to have sex, but she is accidentally artificially inseminated by Dr. Luisa Alver (Yara Martinez). Alver has also just found out that her wife is cheating on her and in her grief mixes up two of her patients, AND the father of Jane’s impending baby turns out to be Rafael Solano (Justin Baldoni), a reformed playboy and wealthy hotel-owner whom Jane kissed once five years ago and who also happens to be Luisa’s half-brother.
Fans of “Blue Mountain State” (2010-2011), Spike TV’s ridiculous satire of football culture at state colleges, rejoice! After departing with the show's almost-inexplicable cancellation after three seasons, the Mountain Goats are back for a last big hurrah with “Blue Mountain State: The ...
“What happened after New Orleans?” asks the voice of the late Anthony Barre, better known as Messy Mya, over the intro to Beyoncé’s new surprise single, “Formation” (2016). Barre, a black comedian, rapper and social media celebrity who was killed at the age of 22 in November 2010, isn’t ...
Editor's note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.The millisecond before the bathroom’s motion-sensor lights came on allowed enough anonymity and formlessness for Cecilia to noticeably relax. She started to wash her hands but, finding herself in the mirror, shook her head in exasperation ...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Can you feel the love in the air? No? Fear not! Whatever your relationship status on Facebook, here are ten songs from 2015 for everyone this Valentine’s Day. Enjoying some Valentine’s Day romance: Miguel’s “Coffee” demonstrates that intimacy can still ...
Tufts University Art Gallery opened two new exhibitions, displaying paintings, photographs and multi-medium installations by three artists this spring.The first exhibition, located upstairs in the Tisch Family Gallery, is the first major retrospective show of the artist Tseng Kwong Chi. Titled “Tseng ...
“Best Animated Short Film” is one of the oldest categories of the Academy Awards, given by the organization every year since 1932. It is also arguably one of the most ignored. There are many reasons underlying the lack of attention the category has received, but primarily it is due to the fact ...
“Grease: Live,” had me a blast, “Grease: Live” happened so fast!
“Hail, Caesar,” released on Feb. 5, takes a pretty dim view of Tinseltown. This is hardly surprising; the Coen brothers, who directed it, have a well-documented contempt for Hollywood, expressed both in interviews and in previous efforts like “Barton Fink.”(1991) But modern Hollywood, widely ...
I’m at my grandfather’s old flat tucked within a sprawling hospital complex in the heart of Chennai. It’s 3 a.m., and everyone else has kicked their jetlag and figured out how to sleep through the air conditioner, which keeps things at a balmy 5ºC. I’m GChatting a friend stateside about how ...
