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Review Rewind: 'Come and See'

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, ...



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'The Wandering Earth': China enters space on screen

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 ...


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Shuttle Talk: Ben Mizrach

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 ...



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Hidden Panels: 'Transmetropolitan' Issue 2

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 ...






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Out on the Town: Inman Square

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 ...


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MFA commemorates Lunar New Year with festive celebration

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, ...


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Netflix's 'High Flying Bird' soars, experiments with new media

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 ...


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Review Rewind: 'Badlands'

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 ...




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MFA hosts the Boston Festival of Films from Japan

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 ...


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Hidden Panels: 'Superior Spider-Man' issue 5

'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 ...


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Cody Ko, Noel Miller delight fans on hilarious Tiny Meat Tour

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 ...


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'Ansel Adams in Our Time': Between us and nature

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 ...


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Shuttle Talk: Magda Petmeza

Why create art? As an artist, it was something I always knew was important, but I didn’t understand why. While at the SMFA, I've realized how complicated it is — not everyone makes art, and those who do create it for different reasons. Furthermore, many do not care at all to answer why they ...