Pensive Victorian poet poetically coughs blood into handkerchief
Elise Sanders, Saw A Salamander Once
October 3, 2019
Last Sunday, local pensive 19th century poet Loventry Poesworth-Byrontë found cause to celebrate when he was rushed to the clinic after he began coughing blood into his delicately embroidered, monogrammed lace handkerchief. “I found him in an absolute fit!” recalled housekeeper Mrs. Carfax. “I was in...
‘Warm Bodies’ Leaves Viewer Feeling Warm and Fuzzy
Nathan Fisher
February 7, 2013
The undead seem to be hip nowadays, with shows like "The Walking Dead" and "True Blood" drawing huge crowds, and movies like "Zombieland," "Resident Evil" and "Shaun of the Dead" making a few bucks. Cashing in on this apocalypse lovefest, this week's new release, "Warm Bodies," adds a new twist to zombiela...
Whitties ‘Give a Spit’ to National Bone Marrow Registry
Jacqueline Rees-Mikula
January 21, 2013
This Monday, Jan. 21, students lined up in Reid Campus Center to donate their time and spit to the National Bone Marrow Registry. Sophomores Rachael Barton and Shannon Blair organized "Give a Spit," a campaign to encourage Whitman students to sign up for the national registry. "I feel like if I'm a healthy person and if I could ...
Holiday Movie Season Promises Passion, Blood and Adventure
Nathan Fisher
November 26, 2012
The holidays are fast approaching––oh yeah, finals too––so here's a quick peek at some movies we can look forward to seeing now through winter break. Actually, two big blockbusters have already come out: Daniel Craig stars in the latest 007 installment, "Skyfall" (Nov. 9), packed with cool stunt...
‘Seven Psychopaths,’ a Shih Tzu and slit throats
Nathan Fisher
October 25, 2012
I love the glitzy and over-the-top world of Hollywood and totally get that the sole purpose of a movie trailer is to entice you to see that movie. The snippet from "Seven Psychopaths" seemed to be a comedy about a couple of buddies who run a dog kidnapping business and one day steal the wrong dog. Gre...
“Looper” delivers futuristic twists, thrills
Nathan Fisher
October 4, 2012
Returning to two-dimensional viewing this week, I just couldn't resist seeing another bloody, violent movie set in the future. "Looper," a sci-fi action thriller, takes the time travel premise in "Terminator" and "Back to the Future" and spins a mind-bending thriller that hits a home run. "Looper" opens in the year 2044 with Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a looper,...
The Judge splatters justice in “Dredd”
Nathan Fisher
September 27, 2012
Although sticking with three-dimensional viewing again this week, I decided to shake up the movie genres and traded last week's bubbles of "Finding Nemo" joyfully popping off the screen for the major blood and guts splattering on at least the first three rows of the theater watching "Dredd." "Dredd" was almost 100 minutes of blood, viole...
Love tries to outshine pools of blood in “Lawless”
Nathan Fisher
September 6, 2012
Unfortunately, none of this week's new movie releases excited me. The best of the bad seemed to be "Lawless," a movie that couldn't quite figure out if it wanted to be a gangsta, hillbilly or period flick. "Lawless" follows the Bondurant brothers and their moonshining business in Virginia. The trio includes Forrest (Tom Hardy...
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