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-13 posts tagged "drama"
Carlos De Loera | Monday, April 8, 2019
“Saturday Night Live” alum Bill Hader is hilarious and one of the best cast members in the famed NBC show’s recent history. His timing, ability to doing stellar impressions and inability to keep it together during sketches made him a favorite on the show. After leaving “SNL” in 2013, Hader continued to act in movies
Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Otis Milburn, the high school-aged protagonist of the new British Netflix series “Sex Education,” dreads having new friends over to his house. It’s hard to blame the kid. His mother, Dr. Jean Milburn, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, and the Milburn home bears the evidence of her profession: sculptures and paintings of larger-than-life sexual organs, instructional videotapes
Cameron Sumner | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
“Was that supposed to be a comedy?” my friend Molly mused as we walked out of the movie theater last week. We had just seen “A Simple Favor,” the new movie directed by Paul Feig. The film, starring Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, and Harry Golding (recent star of “Crazy Rich Asians”), left us somewhat perplexed.
Adam Ramos and Owen Lane | Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The Notre Dame Student Film Festival impressively showcased the talents of more than 20 students from Notre Dame’s Film, Television and Theater department. This year’s festival included 13 diverse films, creating a refreshing mix of genres and styles from start to finish. The three biographical documentaries all provided superb, emotionally charged glimpses into a motley
Maria Leontaras | Wednesday, January 17, 2018
For the seven Saint Mary’s students who attended the week-long Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), there’s no business like show business. The festival, which ran from Jan. 8 to 14, aims to celebrate college drama programs and give students special opportunities. Though KCACTF festivals happen across the country, the Saint Mary’s students attended
Nicholas Ottone | Monday, September 11, 2017
“Do you ever get the feeling that to know you more is to love you less?” This question neatly encapsulates this series’ well-developed themes of intimacy and fear, explored through every major character and their relationships. The character who expresses this existential anxiety claims eight last names because her fathers are in a committed gay
Nicholas Ottone | Tuesday, April 25, 2017
The central thematic inquiries of Denzel Washington’s cinematic adaptation of August Wilson’s play “Fences” — which the Student Union Board (SUB) screened last weekend — are questions of vulnerability, loyalty and family, reaching melodramatic heights as Wilson’s writing soars in concert with the pitch-perfect cast’s performances. The stripped-down cinematic style harkens back to old-fashioned, dialogue-driven
Christian Bunker | Thursday, April 6, 2017
High school sucks, and everyone knows it. Countless books have been written on it and movies and TV shows made about it. Popular culture’s hate affair with grades nine through 12 is so inundating that freshman already know about the swirlies, the mean teachers, the drama, the cliques and the messy break ups — even though
Jimmy Kemper | Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Editor’s Note: This week, Scene had the opportunity to sit down with Brendan Kelly, a Notre Dame alumnus who is an executive producer and writer for streaming network Crackle’s television series, “The Art of More,” a drama which explores the intense and frequently ruthless world of New York City auction houses. We talked to Brendan about the
Matt McMahon | Wednesday, November 11, 2015
“I’m a man of many interests, but my true passion might be pasta,” says Aziz Ansari’s character Dev Shah, describing himself to his girlfriend’s grandmother. “Master of None,” Ansari and writing partner Alan Yang’s new Netflix series, showcases the comedian at the intersection of these two passions: his personal interests and the people in his life.