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Gianna Horcher | Senior Graphic Artist

If you like this, try that: movie edition

Lea Tran February 25, 2025
Have you ever watched a movie that was so good that you wondered if any other film was going to encapsulate that same energy? I mean, that’s why we rewatch movies — to relive the magic. However, just think of all the movies that you will probably love but are missing out on.
Gianna Horcher | Graphic Artist

What’s love got to do with it? Unconventional romance movies for Valentine’s Day

Ruby Voge February 12, 2025
Sometimes, we’re looking for something a little different that breaks outside of the mold of the traditional boy-meets-girl tropes and plot beats. So, here are five — actually, seven — Valentine’s Day movies that range from slightly unique to unequivocally odd. 
Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt star in MGM and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. PHOTO COURTESY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES AND COLUMBIA PICTURES

REVIEW: “The Magnificent Seven” marks successful remake

Felipe Belfort Marques September 22, 2016

If there is one Hollywood trend that film lovers and film critics alike love to bemoan, it is the remake. Whenever a studio decides to make a new version of an older film, the internet goes into an...

Ethan Hawke stars as legendary jazz musician Chet Baker in the film “Born to Be Blue,” which opened at Kendall Square Cinema Friday. PHOTO COURTESY IFC

REVIEW: “Born to Be Blue” jazzes up biopic genre

Samantha Bastress April 11, 2016

Biopics tend to follow the same basic formula — a sequence featuring the main character’s childhood, their rise to fame and then his or her subsequent downfall or death. “Born to Be Blue” breaks...

Blueberry pie doughnuts sit on display inside Mei Mei as part of a Stacked Donuts pop-up at the restaurant in April. PHOTO BY BROOKE JACKSON-GLIDDEN/DFP FILE PHOTO

Muse picks for best arts and culture of 2014

Hannah Landers December 11, 2014

Best New Boston Bite: 2014, year of the fancy doughnut Brooke Jackson-Glidden While San Francisco is hyperventilating over $4 toast, Boston has the breakfast game down with a new twist on a classic. Let’s...

Despite having different experiences than his onscreen character, “Boyhood” star Ellar Coltrane connected to the universal ideas of growing up. PHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMS

INTERVIEW: Ellar Coltrane finds some of himself in his ‘Boyhood’ character

Cat McCarrey September 19, 2014

Ellar Coltrane uses a flip phone. The star of “Boyhood,” whose entire maturation process is seen on screen by each person who contributed to its $21,808,498-and-counting box office take, had to search...

PHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMS

REVIEW: Things change, things stay the same in thoughtful ‘Boyhood’

Cat McCarrey September 19, 2014

Legend has it that Richard Linklater was once challenged to make a film around a conversation. The film was “Before Sunrise,” whose restricted single-night setting and honest intensity vaulted Linklater...

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