I am standing in some random Henle apartment I’ve never been to before at 11:47 PM on a Saturday. It is cramped and sweaty but covered in attempts to make the place feel like home. A scattering of posters and six-pack remnants and fairy lights blanket the walls, the floor is tacky with dried Natty….
The final episode of season three of The Man in the High Castle shows young adults marching through the streets of New York, carrying torches and chanting “blood and soil.” It’s impossible not to catch the reference to the Charlottesville march and riots of last year. The worst, and best, part of the show, is…
Wait, Survivor is still on? Indeed it is, and it’s better than ever. It’s no secret that the CBS competition series is no longer the cultural behemoth it once was when it began 18 years ago. Though Survivor dominated the early 2000s and became the first highly rated U.S. reality television show, the ratings and…
A Billboard #1 single. Flawless recreations of 2000s cult classics. Ariana Grande. What more could you ever ask for in a music video? Ariana Grande finally released a music video on Friday for her chart-topping, surprise single after what felt like weeks of speculation and teasers. Within 24 hours, the video, breaking YouTube and Vevo…
This piece discusses sexual violence, domestic violence, and incest. I bought Alice Walker’s The Color Purple at the Strand Bookstore in New York City last summer on a first date. The novel tells the story of Celie and Nettie, two sisters separated by a literal and figurative ocean, who use letters to preserve the tenuous…
Artemis Fowl—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-fRX_gB6o Dajour: The name Artemis Fowl sounds recognizable; that is the most I can offer about this trailer. Judging from the comments on the trailer, this film is based off a book that I never read. One comment astutely reads “Please don’t Percy Jackson this book,” and it reminded me of how terrible the…
Andrei Tarkovsky might be the greatest filmmaker of all time. The Russian writer-director broke the conventional rules of cinema a thousand times over, using the technical means of film form to present unconventional dramatic structures which favored emotion over narrative. Having made seven feature films, each of which can be described as masterpieces, it would…
CHOKE ME WITH TINSEL, IT’S CHRISTMASTIME! 1. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – Michael Bublé What better way to kick off the December month than a bit of Bublé? This wintery song will fill you with the Christmas cheer you need to get through a cold, cold month. There is no finer…
The Lion King — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CbLXeGSDxg Katie: To be honest, I’ve never understood the obsession with the original cartoon version of The Lion King (1994). The songs get on my nerves, Simba is kind of a jerk sometimes, and Mufasa’s death scene has never evoked any shred of emotion in me. As soulless as this makes…
I thought The Princess Switch (2018) would be like that girl in high school who had it all: wealth, looks, smarts, cool bangs. But after watching the Netflix original holiday rom-com (both “rom” and “com” cited generously), I am completely and utterly and finally disillusioned. I cannot fathom why Princess Switch tanked. It had everything…