With Halloween approaching, grab your comfort blanket, prepare to cover your eyes and get ready to scream, because horror films have a long and chilling history that will leave you completely spellbound.
The fact is that the Oscars have never really awarded what the general public would call the best movie. More specifically, to win an Oscar, one must not simply make the “best movie.”
The film "Judas and the Black Messiah," premiering Friday in theaters, tells the story of Fred Hampton, the deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the revolutionary Black Panther Party who was assassinated by police at 21 years old. At a roundtable discussion of college journalists, stars from the film discussed the history of the film and the activists they played.
The outstanding success of "Get Out" came as a surprise for many, not only because of the director’s creative background and relative inexperience, but also the film’s subject matter.
It’s easy to see how all media, and really all of human activity, is political — every social activity involves making decisions, every set of humans is organized in some way and these organizations will influence the decisions that are made.
Over 440 people crammed into Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre to join Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS ‘11) for a screening of “Fahrenheit 11/9” Monday.
In the spirit of the recently passed Friday the 13th, we will go over the perhaps most commonly known horror movie trope. In horror movies — where characters are almost disposable — underrepresented groups are often the first to go, as they fulfill their purpose of creating tension throughout the plot. Unfortunately, while these groups are seen on the screen, their lack of characterization results in subpar representation.
Horror is a genre founded in sound. Creepy, tone-setting music, the screams of slasher victims, the creak of a door opening on its own — without creative and inventive audio cues, horror would not...
The theater erupted into cheers as Chris Washington, the main character in Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning film “Get Out,” experiences a moment of triumph during the nerve-wracking thriller.
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