SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD “Brooklyn” is a masterful exercise in restraint, spare and funny and without a false note to ring. It builds, it reaches and it moves, flowing with a disarming balance of indie spunk and dramatic sweep. Powered by writer Nick Hornby’s…
SUBMITTED BY SARA MINEO Dust swirled around the two crowned men standing in the center of the battlefield, their swords raised. It is the year 1314, and the King of the Scots Robert the Bruce, has led his army in the first battle of Scottish…
SUBMITTED BY JAMES ESPOSITO How to Pull an All-Nighter in 13 Easy Steps Procrastinate Do you have a paper coming up? Look at the assignment sheet; if the date is any further away than a week, don’t worry about it! This week is for…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD A journalistic slow-burn in the vein of “All the President’s Men,” “Spotlight” sacrifices sweep for realism, and glorification for nuance. In tackling the Boston Globe’s revelatory reporting on the Catholic priest child molestation scandal, director Tom McCarthy provides an investigation of…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD On the surface, Sean Baker’s electric new movie “Tangerine” should predominantly appeal to the niche-preferring moviegoer. The film centers on a pair of transgender* prostitutes, but favors a profanity-laced realism over something more erotic or suspenseful. It's talky and contemplative and…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD By and large, today’s best television comedies slash through jokes, deftly balancing humor with thoughtful drama. There’s a melancholy undercurrent to the blistering satire of Netflix’s animated “BoJack Horseman,” while “Transparent,” Amazon’s family comedy of manners, finds texture through its…
SUBMITTED BY MILES ITON AND GIULIA HEYWARD When Stephen Hawking told the world that philosophy was dead five years ago, there was an outcry. Hundreds of thousands of people came out in defense of a body of work that questions phenomena in a way…
SUBMITTED BY Monica Cross New College of Florida’s Windmill Theatre Company presents nightnight at 8 p.m. September 24th and 25th, at 8:30 p.m. Saturday the 26th, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday the 27th at the New College Black Box Theater, on campus. This piece…
Submitted by Salome Grasland 1. Sometimes you'll stick out worse than a townie at a wall. Embrace it. 2. Integration does not equal blending in. Sometimes you'll wish your accent wouldn't give you away. And that the clothes you carried didn't always out you as foreign. But integration into…
By Brad Baker The starry night sky, flat-chested image of a universe, yawns above us, the naked body of Nut, but a single beauty, body in the heavens; those heavens no more harp-filled than a lying grand piano, and no more the house of god…
