Tag: movies
Opinion: I’d like to thank the Academy for the new Best...
The Oscars are finally requiring nominees for the Best Picture award to have inclusive and diverse casts and crew, but these standards don't go...
“The Invisible Man” reveals the horror of hidden enemies
What you can’t see can hurt you. The movie catchphrase from Blumhouse’s recent hit “The Invisible Man,” directed by Leigh Whannell, seems coincidentally relevant...
We need more representations of affirmative consent in media
By age 14, I had pieced together my sexual knowledge using a heavy-handed Catholic lecture on abstinence in Sunday school, a year-long “health” class...
“The Traitor” is a different kind of Mafia movie
In Martin Scorsese’s gangster film “Goodfellas,” Robert De Niro famously delivers the line “You learned the two greatest things in life: never rat on...
Take a chance on Netflix’s romantic comedies this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, while other people buy dozens of flowers for their crush or make elaborate brunch plans, I will be in my room...
“Annie Hall” successfully depicts the complex nature of NYC Jews
This past February, Netflix added “Annie Hall” to its extensive movie catalog. A couple of weeks ago, during my hectic midterms season, I unexpectedly saw it...
Hollywood needs to stop making reboots and focus on telling diverse...
Hollywood has been continuously churning out an obscene amount of sequels and remakes. So far this year, there have been 46 remakes, reboots and sequels,...
Darren Aronofsky directs my Sunday school panic attacks
Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, "mother!" is a psychological thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a couple living in peaceful isolation...