Sorry to Bother You is a film with familiar social commentary expressed in increasingly strange and unfamiliar ways. It has something to say about capitalism, conformity, personal desire, and self-perception, while using multiple principles of social psychology to ground its lofty subject matter. Going above and beyond the expectations of a typical comedy/drama, it effectively […]
Warning: Spoilers of the films Last Night in Soho (2021) and Midnight in Paris (2011) Have you ever felt nostalgia for a time you never lived through? In the 2011 Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays Gil Pender, a writer infatuated with the 1920s, helplessly nostalgic to breathe the Parisian air that […]
Author’s Note: This article contains spoilers! You probably don’t remember how many people were present at your birth. Your parents likely consider such a detail trivial since they were there and, after all, that’s what matters, right? Wrong. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake, explores the kind of loneliness and discontent immigrant families experience in pursuit […]
What’s your fate? Scorpio • Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 If you got through middle school, you can make it through the rest of this semester. College is just like middle school for adults, anyway. Sagittarius • Nov. 22 to Dec. 21 People think it’s the air pressure causing so much extreme weather in […]
In only three minutes Chella Man delivers the versatility and the beauty of being deaf. He invites you to immerse yourself into his perspective, where he discerns his obligation to advocate for himself and his fellow queer and disabled people through his short film “The Beauty of Being Deaf.” It was completely filmed underwater where […]
Looking to take some time away from your piles of classwork as the semester begins to catch speed? Take a detour to the Beard and Weil Galleries in the Watson Fine Arts building and catch the new exhibition To Scatter or Sow: Diaspora in Contemporary Art. The exhibition is also available virtually on the gallery’s […]
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to have an Asian superhero inspired by Chinese folklore and martial arts. It is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, a Japanese American filmmaker and Chinese-American screenwriter, Dave Callahna. Shang-Chi is played by Simu Liu, known for his role as Jung […]
The 2021 Met Gala had every opportunity to deviate from tradition and allow for a show-stopping return to one of America’s most beloved fashion moments. The Gala itself had been pushed back from its usual May date for the optimistic sake of holding it when the Covid-19 virus was more under control. In the time […]
The pandemic has led many people to question beliefs surrounding introversion. Some people ended up thriving in a socially limited environment, some are finding that re-entering into their “normal” social lives is overwhelming. Others coped with quarantine by viewing their condensed world through the “main-character” lens. Now approaching its 20-year anniversary, it is the perfect […]
Last week, I was in the Cole Memorial Chapel for the first time since my freshman year. It’s funny to think about how time has elapsed and folded in on itself during my college career as a function of the pandemic. This is a rote idea, but one that I contemplated as I sat in […]