Cormac Riordan

Earth Day movie picks

Is there a better way to celebrate Earth Day than staying inside to enjoy some movies about the beauty (and sometimes horror) of nature without having to actually go outside? Here are my top five films to help you celebrate nature this Saturday;   “Antichrist” (2009) Lars von Trier’s fairly horrific descent into the evils…

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Geriatric Education Center and URI present ‘Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory’

​“Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory,” the documentary shown by the Geriatric Education Center last Sunday, focuses on the music therapy Dan Cohen conducts with alzheimer’s patients  He puts headphones on the nursing home residents and plays music that they were familiar with in their youth, and the result is nothing short of…

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ghostintheshell

“Ghost in the Shell,” adapted from the anime film of the same title, which was adapted from a manga of the same title, was the recipient of a fair amount of backlash before it was released. Early criticism mainly centered around the casting of Scarlett Johansen, a white woman, for the Japanese character Motoko Kusanagi….

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Alumnus releases final book of trilogy

Douglas J Wood, an alumni from the University of Rhode Island, recently released his book “Presidential Conclusions,” the last in a trilogy of political fiction following the second woman president, Samantha Harrison. “Presidential Conclusions” feels like it could be “ripped from today’s headlines” and is full of “imagined conversations with real politicians.” Wood described the…

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