Film

Photo taken from IMDb Twenty-eight-year-old American comedian Bo Burnham’s decision to start directing was nothing but a good one, as he recently gave the entertainment industry what it’s been missing: a film that portrays the reality of a young teen accurately. Burnham’s film “Eighth Grade” is the epitome of the raw emotions and anxieties that…

Photo courtesy of Meg Hamblen University of Rhode Island senior Megan Hamblen directed the University’s production of “Time Stands Still” with great success the weekend of Nov. 2. Over the summer, Hamblen read around 25 plays trying to find the perfect one to direct this fall and stumbled upon “Time Stands Still.” She recalled a…

Photo take from IMDb Of all the rock bands of the 1970s and 80s, “Queen” has to be the most iconic and timeless. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” released in theaters on Nov. 2 and directed by Bryan Singer, is the perfect celebration of “Queen”- and lead singer Freddie Mercury’s career, spirit and legacy. As the movie starts…

To be honest, the recent trend of remaking older animated films seems to me like a money-making scheme more than anything else. “Star Wars” has a million new movies, most of which are honestly not that good, there’s a prequel to everything, and some of the remakes are just plain stupid. For example, they’re making…

The University of Rhode Island Foreign Film Society is a new club on campus that professor Rob Cohen has partnered with students to create. The club held their first event on Nov. 1, which was a screening of the biopic of Indian boxing champion Mary Kom, an uplifting if not routine sports movie titled simply…

University of Rhode Island student filmmakers now have a place to pool their resources together and network once again due to the revival of Film Collab. Film Collab was revived by Sunny Davis, senior film media and writing and rhetoric double major. The club has existed on campus for many years but dissipated in spring…

When the film “The Hate U Give” was wide-released in theaters on Oct. 9, I eagerly rushed to go see the adaptation of one of my favorite books, crossing my fingers that it would live up to the writings of Angie Thomas. In both the book and the film, audiences follow the story of a…

Bradley Cooper was able to showcase not only his acting skills but his directing skills in the new movie, “A Star is Born.” With Cooper’s multiple talents and Lady Gaga’s amazing singing and acting, this made for an incredibly beautiful and emotional movie. Many may believe that this movie is the typical “boy meets girl”…