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The marquee outside of the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. Academy Award winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter was honored with a Coolidge Award on Sunday. JULIA DESANTIS/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter receives Coolidge Award

Brenda Gonzalez October 19, 2023
Ruth E. Carter, renowned costume designer known for her work on the "Black Panther" movies, accepted the Coolidge Award from Coolidge Corner Theatre on Oct. 15.
Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen

Cast and crew of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ talk stage- to-film transition, mental health awareness

Molly Farrar September 10, 2021
The Daily Free Press talked to the actors, director and screenwriter of the film about themes of self-acceptance and suicide.
julianne moore in safe film

BU’s Pandemic Cinema Series sparks film conversations

Sophie Nye March 4, 2021
BU's cinema and media studies program discussed the 1995 drama "Safe" in the latest development of their virtual "Pandemic Cinema" series — where faculty and students engage with movies with timely themes in an effort to foster community through the pandemic.
Julianne Moore stars in “Wonderstruck,” premiering Oct. 20. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: “Wonderstruck” strikes wonder, but with room for improvement

Hannah Edelman October 27, 2017

“Where do I belong?” These are the words that Rose, a deaf girl from 1927 New Jersey, asks herself in Todd Haynes’ new film “Wonderstruck” — or, more accurately, these are the words...

EDITORIAL: Disney's opposition to Georgia's anti-LGBT bill welcome, financially motivated

EDITORIAL: Disney’s opposition to Georgia’s anti-LGBT bill welcome, financially motivated

Editors March 24, 2016

A bill passed by the Georgia legislature now awaiting the governor’s signature would allow religious leaders and organizations to refuse performing and attending same-sex marriage ceremonies, The Washington...

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.” PHOTO COURTESY MURRAY CLOSE

REVIEW: “Mockingjay – Part 2” brings tumultuous series to heroic end

Mariel Cariker November 23, 2015

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2”, the final film installment based on Suzanne Collins’ novel trilogy, provides a tale at its peak. The film starts out perfectly aligned with where it left...

Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Peter Sollett's "Freeheld." PHOTO COURTESY LIONSGATE PICTURES.

REVIEW: “Freeheld” tastefully emphasizes humanity of LGBT movement

Caroline Aaron October 5, 2015

In a city as liberal as Boston and a school as accepting as Boston University, it is sometimes easy for non-LGBT students to forget the discrimination that the LGBT community faces and the rights for...

EDIT: Beauty and the Finger

EDIT: Beauty and the Finger

Editors February 23, 2015

Another award show, another opportunity to admire people's ... fingers? The 87th Academy Awards on Sunday night brought a lot to the public's eye, from Jack Black taking the stage in an Into the Woods-esque...

In "Still Alice," released Jan. 16, Julianne Moore (left) stars as a patient with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. PHOTO BY JOJO WHILDEN/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

REVIEW: In “Still Alice”, love tries hard to conquer all

Navraj Narula January 23, 2015

A person can be visually impaired yet still clearly hear birds singing in the morning. Another might not be able to hear the birds, but instead see the change of a season reflected in a tree’s leaves....

Nora Grossman, who graduated from the College of Communication in 2005, co-produced "The Imitation Game," an upcoming film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as mathematician Alan Turing. PHOTO COURTESY OF DARREN DELUCA

INTERVIEW: COM alumna Nora Grossman on producing ‘The Imitation Game’

Sonia Rao December 8, 2014

“The Imitation Game,” which will be released in Boston Friday and nationwide Dec. 25, tells the story of the brilliant, socially awkward mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), who led the...

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1." PHOTO COURTESY OF MURRAY CLOSE/LIONSGATE

REVIEW: Slow or no, ‘Mockingjay’ soars

Sonia Rao November 24, 2014

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” has achieved something paradoxically spectacular. Since it was slightly unnecessary for the film to be split into two parts, “Part 1” moves extraordinarily...

Liam Neeson flops in Non-Stop

Daily Free Press Admin March 5, 2014

Liam Neeson’s most recent effort in the once-Oscar-winner-turned-action-hero’s series of gruff federal agent movies, Non-Stop, is quite the failed experiment. The promising airplane thriller unfortunately...

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