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…
Photo by Joseph Lachance | The RKO Army performs to “Thriller” during pre-show. The RKO Army Performance Troupe put on a live performance of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in Edwards Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 26. RKO Army is a small shadow cast from Rhode Island that URI’s Gender and…
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”…
Ballroom dancing club gets cast in ‘Anastasia: Once Upon a Time’ Photo by Joseph Lachance | Students of the URI Ballroom Dance Club practice during rehearsal. During last year’s spring break, the University of Rhode Island’s Ballroom Dance Club was hired as dancers in the new “Anastasia: Once Upon a Time” movie. The club was…
Last summer, a friend and I went to the movie theater to see the fairly mediocre but not terrible film “The Darkest Minds.” Like many films before it, it was an adaptation of a series of novels. While I did not think too much of it one way or the other, my friend absolutely despised…
October is my favorite month of the year. At night I find myself submerged in mounds of blankets on the couch, sipping hot cider out of ceramic mugs and staring up at the Walmart spiderwebs I draped on my bureau in awe at my decorating skills. While all of these things place a warm hum…
Netflix’s “Bojack Horseman” is one of the best television shows not on television. Netflix debuted the show’s fifth season last month, bringing out the usual puns, wordplay, visual gags, and soul-crushing moments of self-reflection. It’s an odd show. Did I mention it features a world populated by anthropomorphic animals and normal humans? Getting down to…
Damien Chazelle’s film, “First Man” is first and foremost, a claustrophobic film. The epicness of the story told, the United States race to land on the moon, is contrasted sharply by reliance on closeup shots and small confined shooting locations. For example, take the opening scene in which Neil Armstrong, portrayed by Ryan Gosling, who…