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The 2014 film “What We Do in the Shadows” brought needed fresh energy to the vampire genre through its mockumentary set-up and brilliant deadpan humor. It never received a wide U.S. release, and its legacy is that of a cult classic: a film with a small but devoted following.
I’m fat. When I was younger, I preferred to use descriptors that minimized my body like chubby or curvy or plus-sized, but now I’m 20 years old, five-foot-ten and weigh over 250 pounds. My fatness is undeniable.
After much anticipation and perfect to distract from the onslaught of midterms and papers, the newest season of Queer Eye finally made its way to Netflix March 15. And with a move from a home base in Atlanta to one in Kansas City, Missouri, this season may just be the best one yet.
When Jordan Peele announced he was working on a new movie following the release of “Get Out,” it seemed like the flood of internet conspiracy theories on his first film just took a new shape. And after a $70 million opening weekend that broke the box office record for an original horror movie, fans looked online to help explain the lack of answers provided in “Us.”
Part of a fringe sub-sub-genre lovingly dubbed “The Wave,” La Dispute is a divisive entity with a fiercely loyal following and a way with words.
Movies about friendship are a commonplace in the film world. Yet, many times, these films ignore the platonic relationships between men, instead replacing them with hyperbolic or unrealistic versions.
Weezer is one of the few ‘90s bands still pumping out music today, releasing their jaw-dropping 13th album this week, “Weezer (Black Album).” But it is just another tepid release in the band’s rocky and immensely frustrating discography.
It’s not often that an artist follows a song as big as “Take Me To Church” with four years of relative silence. Sure, Hozier toured extensively in the years following his breakout in 2014, but fans of the Irish multi-instrumentalist had to wait until 2018 for another release.
“It all begins with Viggo Mortensen.”
Writer and director Minhal Baig’s coming of age drama “Hala” follows a Muslim-American teenager as she navigates her senior year of high school. For Hala, her culture and family are just as important as her American upbringing.
When Jon Stewart left “The Daily Show” in 2015, John Oliver stepped up to fill massive hole in late night comedy that Stewart’s departure created. Oliver had been a “Daily Show” correspondent, even hosting Stewart’s show for eight weeks while Stewart directed his film "Rosewater."
Much discussion has erupted in recent weeks regarding the (purportedly) fading necessity of reviews. In an age of discontinued Netflix-star-ratings, Amazon top customer reviewers and enraged YouTubers, the long-form reviews of movies, books or music that once dominated newspapers are increasingly seen as antiquated or downright ignorant
My dad and brother flew in this weekend for the NC State game, and with them here for only 24 hours, we tried to visit as many Durham restaurants as our stomachs could handle.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The Academy Awards — at its best, a beacon of cinematic prestige and, at its worst, a three-hour snobbish back-patting of Hollywood’s brightest stars — have become a headline mainstay in recent months for all the wrong reasons.
How we attribute value to art has been a question since the origins of the art world. Those who determine what is valuable, an immense power that is often granted to critics, determine the kinds of art to be produced by artists.
One conversation kept coming up during my weekend at Sundance, overheard while waiting in a press line or riding on the crowded bus.
By combining the personal with the political, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's "One Child Nation" delves into the generational effects of China's one-child policy.The documentary won the top honor of Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary category at Sundance Film Festival.
Love got you down? Finally found your one true love? Trying to avoid any and all couples on February 14th? Whatever your feelings are toward Valentine's Day, Recess has got you covered with our songs describing love, loss and everything in between:
At such a technologically tumultuous moment in time, it seems that a piece of techno sci-fi media emerges from the mind of a technological conspirator every second.
If you’ve seen one romantic comedy, you’ve seen them all. The genre’s tropes are well-known: There’s the misunderstood brooding male love interest, the quirky yet loveable female heroine we can’t help but root for, the dowdy best friend whose main plot point is to encourage the heroine until she gives in to the hero’s strange quirks and learns to love him anyway.
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