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-75 posts tagged "Film"
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Whenever I watch a high school coming-of-age film, I am hit with a pang of regret. Not that I didn’t enjoy my high school experience, but watching the experiences of others encourages all kinds of painful what-ifs. What if I really missed out? What if I did it all wrong? “You’re only young once,” they
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
So far, at least; it’s only April. But the latest from director Eliza Hittman (“Beach Rats”) is a bracingly honest snapshot of female fortitude, cast against the backdrop of a country where women’s choices (and their stories) are often stripped away. The film is about an abortion. No matter what side of the aisle you’re
Aidan O'Malley | Thursday, April 2, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues its solemn march across the country (there are now nearly 200,000 cases in the U.S., and that’s only those who’ve been tested), Americans everywhere are turning to the leading expert on infectious disease: a Matt Damon movie. “Contagion,” released in 2011, has taken on mythological proportions in the last few
Gina Twardosz | Monday, March 23, 2020
“The ugly truth of the matter is this,” Rob Brooks, played by Zoe Kravitz, laments at the end of the first episode of Hulu’s “High Fidelity.” “If we suddenly heard that the world was going to end in 24 hours, the people I would call in the first hour would be the obvious: my parents,
Aidan O'Malley | Thursday, March 19, 2020
Legend has it that in 1994, as Pixar was putting the finishing touches on the one and only “Toy Story,” director John Lasseter and writers Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft gathered during a lunch break and asked a simple question: “What will we do next?” Their answer came in the form of napkins.
Dillon Begley | Tuesday, February 25, 2020
With “Sonic the Hedgehog” recently rolling into theaters, the debate about films inspired by video games has re-entered public conversation. Movies that attempt to adapt the stories of video games into films are, more often than not, poor in quality. Additionally, they typically do not make much of a profit at the box office. This
Hannah Tonsor | Monday, February 24, 2020
In September 2004, the Browning Cinema opened on Notre Dame campus. Located in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, the Browning Cinema is a THX certified, 200-seat theater that offers a variety of programs and events. “It’s kind of like an arthouse cinema where we don’t really show large commercial-released films,” Kevin Krizmanich, the cinema production
Anna Hurt | Tuesday, February 18, 2020
When Susan Ohmer, professor of film and television, was approached about teaching a new course titled “Harry Potter, Medievalism and Transmedia Narratives,” she said “it didn’t take me more than five seconds to think about it before I said ‘yes.’” The class, which focuses on author J.K. Rowling’s popular fantasy book series and subsequent film
Jacob Neisewander | Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Hark! “The Lighthouse” is the second feature film from up-and-coming horror director Robert Eggers. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as two lighthouse keepers slowly descending into madness after being stranded at their station. While the technical aspects of “The Lighthouse” alone are certainty worth the price of admission, it’s Pattinson and Dafoe’s performances that
Jake Winningham | Thursday, January 30, 2020
“Love is a four-letter word, and so is hate.” Most movies avoid including their thesis statement as a piece of dialogue — most of those that are so forward about their intentions can’t find a way to stick the landing. “Waves,” the best film of 2019, isn’t like most movies. Following the trials of an