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-27 posts tagged "drama"
Dessi Gomez | Friday, February 26, 2021
I have not yet read one of Kristin Hannah’s novels in my lifetime, but Netflix’s adaptation of “Firefly Lane” has definitely put her on my radar. The TV series changes quite a few plot points — as well as character roles and arcs — but Hannah’s touch still glimmers here and there. The story centers
Sophia Michetti | Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Directed by Simon Stone, “The Dig” is an understated movie that will surprise all by how invested its audience will be. Based on a true story, the movie follows Edith Pretty as she hires excavator Basil Brown to dig in the fields on her property where she and her late husband believed something from the
Sophia Michetti | Thursday, October 15, 2020
I didn’t realize how much I had missed Chris Harrison until he graced my TV screen last Tuesday night, introducing Clare Crawley as the lead for the sixteenth season of “The Bachelorette.” The Bachelor franchise has been a major component of American pop culture for as long as I can remember, and this season may
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
“The Devil All the Time” is bad. But boy, is it the best kind of bad! Worse than a bad movie, in my opinion, is a forgettable one. You know the kind I’m talking about — those movies that exit your brain the second the credits have rolled, the kind you see on cable a
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