Since 2016, various faculty in International and Area Studies and Chinese Language and Culture have held the Asian Film & Talk Series as part of the “New College: Connecting the Art + Humanities” season, in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. After taking the…
A movie or show’s soundtrack is a valuable tool for setting the tone or giving scenes more emotional kick to them, whether that be a fight scene set to a pulse-pounding, high octane rock song or a more somber scene set to a sorrowful ballad…
Disclaimer: this article contains spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and WandaVision. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj9J2ecsSpo Whenever there is mass societal unrest, there are usually superhero stories to follow. For example, the cinematic world post-9/11 saw a renaissance of less campy superheroes and darker supervillains. …
Mikey Alfred’s directorial debut North Hollywood has been a long time coming. The new feature comes from the minds of Alfred and the other members of the skateboarding and art collective Illegal Civilization. From start to finish, I was completely sucked into the world of…
Judas and the Black Messiah is a biographical film that doesn’t totally focus on the person central to its plot, Fred Hampton, in an effort to make the viewer think about their morals on empathy and sympathy. It challenges common conceptions of the way the…
As one of the most notorious female characters in the world of DC Comics, Harley Quinn is often seen as the right-hand woman of the Joker. The newest film in the DC Extended Universe Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)…
Robert Bilott, a 1987 graduate of New College and member of the New College Alumni Association Board of Directors, has been regarded on Twitter as a “real-life superhero” by actor Mark Ruffalo. Ruffalo plays Bilott in the new legal thriller “Dark Waters,” based on the…
A story about a shape-shifting, child-eating clown demands some degree of suspension of disbelief, but there still needs to be believability within the plot. On Friday Sept. 6, director Andy Muschietti’s film It Chapter Two was released, and it was simply okay. Pop-culture’s 30-year cycle…
"Black Panther" took audiences on a journey to the nation of Wakanda, portraying its hidden technological advancements seamlessly intermingled into an urban, African space complete with bright costuming and breathtaking scenery. Set against this background was inclusive and intriguing fight scenes, which did not consist of…
Cara Buckley, in their article on the “The Florida Project” for the New York Times (NYT) uses the inappropriate adjective “vituperative”--it means bitter and abusive--for one of the main characters, a mother named Halley played by Bria Vinaite. This word choice exemplifies exactly the…
