After Joss Whedon’s critical failure that came out in 2017, the “Snyder Cut” was always going to be an improvement over what came before. Photo from the verge.com. In January, film director Zach Snyder took to Twitter to announce the release of his long-awaited director’s cut of the 2017 DC Comics movie “Justice League.” It…
Netflix tackles the college admissions scandal that shook the nation in 2019 in new documentary. Photo from variety.com. The newly-released Netflix documentary “Operation Varsity Blues” paints a cautionary tale of greed, corruption and competition in the college admission process following the 2019 scandal. The documentary follows the mastermind behind the decades long fraudulent college application…
Hot on the heels of “WandaVision,” the newest release on Disney+, “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” keeps the Marvel-mania alive. Photo from imbd.com On the heels of “WandaVision,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe has released their second Disney+ show, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” which tackles issues of racism and trauma in a post-Blip…
The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography put on a virtual event on March 29 featuring speaker Anthony Geffen that brought viewers through a journey of immersive storytelling and gave a sneak peek into the future of technology, teaching audience members that it’s not far from becoming our reality. Anthony Geffen is the…
URI students recently gathered to break it down and break a sweat on the Quad in an open-air zumba class. Photo by Greg Clark. In honor of his second anniversary as a certified Zumba instructor, Pat Laprade hosted a one-hour Zumba session on the Quad on March 27. Going into this event, I was really…
“Picture director David Lynch, Stephen King, Luis Fonsi, Justin Timberlake, The Monkees, The Blue Meanies, Lord Voldemort and Emperor Palpatine, all drugged, and kept prisoner in an airline’s executive lounge,” that’s how Grammy-nominated artist Eric Alexandrakis would describe his new EP “GMT.” Yeah, that fits – and I mean that as a compliment. “GMT” is…
From Paul Newman’s days on the Warner Brothers lot taking on movies meant for James Dean, to his establishment as a great actor throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s with films like “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The Hustler,” he was already an established star by the time 1971 rolled around. Fifty…
The Britney Spears conservatorship saga continues. Photo from iheart.com. Pop princess Britney Spears has become a household name over the past 30 years. However, after witnessing her experience in the spotlight, fans no longer just think of her hit songs when they hear her name; they think of the #FreeBritney movement. Hulu’s New York Times…
1n 2004, a film theory professor screened “Paris Is Burning,” a documentary about 1980s ballroom culture. A young African American and Puerto Rican queer student walked back to his residence hall building afterwards thinking about how it could inspire a really good television show. He dreamt up a character of a young gay boy named…
The advent of binge-watching has bred the cultural phenomenon of hate-watching, but what is hate-watching? According to Merriam-Webster, it means “to watch and take pleasure in laughing at or criticizing (a disliked television show, movie, etc.).” Now, this isn’t a new thing and has been around since the early 2010s. Yet, the act of hate-watching…