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Justin George | Thursday, December 2, 2021
It has been brought to my attention that many of you have been watching the wrong Christmas movies for the majority of your lives. Fear not, dear reader! It is not too late to change your festive film viewing habits. Here are a handful of my favorite Christmas movies read more→
JP Spoonmore | Thursday, December 2, 2021
I instinctively avoid animated Netflix Originals. They often follow one of the two art styles they can afford, and their stories are constantly moody. For me, I see no point in starting one when an identical one comes out a week later. Dropping entire seasons of similar shows, one read more→
Rose Androwich | Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Christmas movies are an interesting genre to explore. You have the utmost Christmas classics, and then you have the genre I like to call “horrible Christmas films.” The irony of “Love Hard” is that in some ways, it’s a failure to even the horrible Christmas films. Have you ever read more→
Rachel Hartmann | Wednesday, December 1, 2021
In “Hellbound,” the world is thrown into chaos when huge, terrifying demons appear and drag sinners to hell. These demons appear on the date and time specified by a mythical creature who appeared to the sinners before. As these demons appear more and more, religious extremism grows as individuals read more→
Evan McKenna | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Lorde’s work has always been mindful of cohesion. Even in the New Zealand native’s first record, “Pure Heroine” — a 10-song collection hastily thrown together after the unpredicted success of “Royals” — an underlying theme feels palpable: teenage turmoil, suburban boredom and the angst of growing older. And 2017’s read more→
Olivia Seymour | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Exploding with extravagance and chaos, Ridley Scott’s new film “House of Gucci” uncovers the treacherous and oddly operatic tale of the Gucci family’s downfall, complete with backstabbing betrayal, furious family feuds and spectacular scandal. The movie manages to push aside the red-and-green-striped leather and the golden, billion-dollar trademark to read more→
Lexi Kilcoin | Monday, November 22, 2021
This past Thursday through Sunday, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center held an International Film Fest in conjunction with the Notre Dame International (NDI) Senior Fellows. The fest, which was intended to highlight Notre Dame’s International Education Week, featured four films: one from Iran, one from Guatemala, one from Ireland read more→
Gracie Simoncic | Monday, November 22, 2021
Notre Dame’s newly acquired Emilio Sanchez pieces embody technical excellence while successfully connecting with audiences through soothing imagery and colors. Often, when we think of art, we envision subversion and complexity imbued with deep philosophical meaning. However, Sanchez’s work takes a more simplified, minimalistic approach characterized by a a read more→
Abby Patrick, Mannion McGinley, Nelisha Silva, Isabella Volmert, Adriana Perez, Genevieve Coleman, Alysa Guffey, Siobhan Loughney, Evan McKenna, Maggie Klaers, Colin Capece, Christine Hilario, Sophia Michetti, Maggie Clark, Anna Falk, Caitlin Brannigan and Gabby Beechert | Friday, November 19, 2021
You already know what’s up — Scene Selections (Taylor’s Version) are below. “State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)” By Abby Patrick, Viewpoint Editor First impressions are hard. I’ve made enough questionable ones to know. I don’t know what Taylor Swift put in “State of Grace,” but I think she had read more→
Marcelle Couto | Thursday, November 18, 2021
On Saturday, Nov. 13, the South Bend Symphony Orchestra graced the Morris Performing Arts Center with their glorious music, featuring “Jabberwocky” by Anthony DiLorenzo, Samuel Barber’s “Violin Concerto” with soloist Dylana Jenson and Robert Schumann’s “Symphony No. 2.” The performance is the second of the Jack M. Champaigne Masterworks read more→