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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

‘Barbie’ wasn’t snubbed, please get over yourselves

Lina Barclay January 31, 2024
'Barbie' made for a fun filmgoing experience, but Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are not deserving of Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Actress. Here's why.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

EDITORIAL: It’s a Barbie world—and we’re all just living in it

Editors April 10, 2023
While she’s normally making headlines for her controversial body stature, Barbie is now making news for another reason: coming to a theater near you on July 21 is Greta Gerwig’s real-life adaptation of “Barbie”—but we would be remiss if we didn’t discuss how this stereotypical casting contributes to the unrealistic beauty standard discourse.
Flick Critique: Coolest male movie characters of all time

Flick Critique: Coolest male movie characters of all time

Victoria Lara November 18, 2018

True coolness is something hard to come by in many movie characters. While many try this hard task, actors often fall flat, as it is visible they are trying too hard or simply lack what it takes to fully...

Ryan Gosling, pictured above, is starring in “First Man,” his second collaboration with director Damien Chazelle. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: Damien Chazelle’s ‘First Man’ showcases Neil Armstrong’s fight to walk on the moon

Pat LaMarco October 14, 2018
Neil Armstrong became a household name after he became the first human to step foot on the moon. Armstrong passed away in 2012 at the age of 82, but more light has been shed on his legacy in the film “First Man,” which came out Friday.
EDITORIAL: PcW’s mistake stole “Moonlight’s” moment

EDITORIAL: PcW’s mistake stole “Moonlight’s” moment

Editors February 28, 2017

Movie lovers gathered around their televisions Sunday night to watch the most comprehensive award show of the season — the 89th annual Academy Awards. Justin Timberlake started the show with his upbeat...

FRILOT: Life of performer in “La La Land”

FRILOT: Life of performer in “La La Land”

Madison Frilot February 20, 2017

After the debut of the “modern, original” musical “La La Land,” theatre students and professionals everywhere were left feeling conflicted. On one hand, we rejoiced to see that musical theatre...

Ryan Gosling as Sebastian and Emma Stone as Mia in “La La Land.” PHOTO COURTESY DALE ROBINETTE

REVIEW: “La La Land” brings musicals back to the silver screen

Felipe Belfort Marques December 12, 2016

Film musicals are a strange genre — when one thinks of a musical in film, it’s either a bombastic, all-out production or one of the classic tap-dancing, minimal-plot films of the ‘40s and ‘50s....

FONTANA: Women are crazy, men are stupid

Daily Free Press Admin April 24, 2013

There’s a theorem that has yet to fail me in life. Or rather, it has yet to fail me since I realized its existence all those semesters ago when I was just a young, impressionable freshman living in the...

INTERVIEW: Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes and the genius of Derek Cianfrance

Daily Free Press Admin April 3, 2013

  It is strange to be in the same room as Ryan Gosling, but indeed much stranger to find the man sitting next to Gosling far more interesting. Derek Cianfrance, widely recognized, but only recently,...

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