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Nicole Bilyak | Friday, September 30, 2022
In 2016, Lucasfilm released the first of the “Star Wars” spin-off films, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” The film was a massive success and provided a new perspective on the Rebel Alliance. It took until this September to continue the journey “Rogue One” began into the underbelly of the famous rebellion in “Star Wars”
Rose Androwich | Monday, September 12, 2022
On Wednesday, Sept. 7, the first three episodes of the new Hulu series “Tell Me Lies” was released. While the first episode begins in the present, the director takes us back to Lucy’s first year of college. The director’s choice for bridging the past and present naturally presented spoilers. Even though these foreshadowing details somewhat piqued
John Clark | Monday, November 8, 2021
This week, Crunchyroll, the most prominent anime streaming service, added “Revolutionary Girl Utena” to their library. Produced during the 90s era that produced “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” “Sailor Moon” and “Cowboy Bebop,” “Revolutionary Girl Utena” was a collaborative multimedia project simultaneously released as a manga and as an anime in 1997. The two media platforms deviated
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,
Sarah Kikel | Friday, March 1, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s “Master of Suspense,” has directed some of film’s most thrilling scenes. This semester, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s “Learning Beyond the Classics” series brings 14 of his startling films to the Notre Dame community. The series organizes Hitchcock’s films into four categories, two of which — “Crimes and Criminals” and “Women, Guilt, and
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, January 17, 2018
2017’s “13 Reasons Why” treated us to the melodramatic horrors of teen angst turned lukewarm. The series (likely a televised incarnation of an unreleased My Chemical Romance album) whipped out its suicide porn like a toneless battering ram — slathering every arid line in gobs of undue emotion. Will Toledo’s tweet captures the heart of
Alvaro del Campo | Monday, September 5, 2016
Netflix’s latest addition to its catalog of original programming, “Stranger Things,” is a sci-fi/horror series set in 1980s Indiana. The idyllic suburb where the series is set is quickly disrupted by two events: the mysterious disappearance of local middle-schooler Will Byers and appearance of a girl in a hospital gown known only as Eleven. From
Allie Tollaksen | Monday, September 1, 2014
When writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson began work on “The Master” following 2007’s critically acclaimed “There Will Be Blood,” talk about the film’s controversial themes was abuzz. Namely, the film’s rumored focus on the Church of Scientology dominated the conversation leading up to the film’s release. Questions arose about whether Anderson would admit the