Tasha Hall, Campus Life Reporter
• October 20, 2022
Ask any fan of superhero movies for a recommendation, and they’ll probably direct you to a film by Marvel Studios, which has released more than 29 films since 2008 and eight television series since...
The zany, self-referential and ridiculous antics of the Dark Knight’s LEGO equivalent continue in Warner Animation Group’s new animated feature, “The LEGO Batman Movie,” a spin-off of the 2014...
The official nominations for the 89th Academy Awards ceremony were announced on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and, much in the vein of past ceremonies, featured some welcome improvements from years past while also...
This past week, I attended a meeting for students planning to study abroad. Around 20 students and myself anxiously sat together, waiting for the speaker talk us through the process of choosing and applying...
More than any other summer in recent memory, the current summer season has proved deeply troubling for the state of the film industry, in regards to the quality of films, the kinds of films that...
As is any self-respecting art form in the modern and post-modern era, film is often a self-reflexive medium. Whether it be in canonized classics like "Man with a Movie Camera" and "8 ½", arthouse fare...
It's been a while since I last posted, but that's because I've been watching a lot of movies. Long movies. I've watched bunch of long movies this year overall, from the intimate 3-hour opus "Yi Yi",...
As I start my last semester at Whitman, the terror of the fast approaching real world is looming. I'm starting to be expected to have answers for questions such as, "What do you want to do?" or "What...
I've been watching the films of Alain Robbe-Grillet lately. He's best-known as the writer of Alain Resnais's "Last Year at Marienbad" but after "Marienbad" he went on to write and direct quite a few...
The Criterion Collection recently added two David Cronenberg films to Hulu Plus: "Scanners" and "The Brood". I've been in intrigued by Cronenberg for a while, but I've only seen a couple of his movies...
Welcome to "Lights, Camera, I Like Movies!" As you may be able to tell from the title, this is going to be a blog about movies. But not just any movies. I'm going to mostly write about films that are foreign,...
