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Tommy Anderson | Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Imagine a region in this world where the air you breath is poison, the water you drink is ghastly and the land you live on is subject to utter destruction. Cancer rates are 50 percent higher than the anywhere else and birth defects are 43 percent higher than the rest of the country you live
Tommy Anderson | Monday, March 21, 2016
If you have not heard the unfortunate news, there is going to be a remake of the 1984 film “Ghostbusters.” The remake will star Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. While I am an avid fan of the original “Ghostbusters,” I am pessimistic about the quality of this year’s film, to put it nicely. Historically,
Erin McAuliffe and Tommy Anderson | Monday, February 8, 2016
This Super Bowl Sunday, we tuned in for the ads … well, at least the ones we hadn’t already seen on Facebook or teased on Twitter in 2016: the age of commercial trailers. Blame it on Vine or millennials or the multiplying digital platforms on which brands can reach audiences, but commercial trailers no longer
Sam Fentress, Nick Laureano and Tommy Anderson | Monday, February 1, 2016
This past weekend, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center hosted the 27th annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival, showcasing the works of some of Notre Dame’s most promising undergraduate film makers. Scene Writers Sam Fentress, Nick Laureano and Tommy Anderson attended this year’s festival and had a discussion about the lineup that follows below. Sam Fentress: “Edison Brockwell” featured perhaps
Tommy Anderson | Thursday, March 26, 2015
Disney has found and perfected its niche for true story lines about athletes as underdogs coming out on top, and “McFarland, USA” is just that. Based on a true story that began in 1987, “McFarland” relives the tale of a high school teacher, Jim White, played by Kevin Costner, who finds himself as the head of
Tommy Anderson | Thursday, March 19, 2015
Having rather high expectations walking into “Chappie,” I was disappointed with Neill Blomkamp’s work. Over the past several years, South African director Blomkamp has emerged as a promising young director, most notably with 2009’s social segregation commentary and horror film “District 9.” More recently Blomkamp wrote, produced and directed 2013’s dystopian “Elysium,” which sadly seemed