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Film review: “The Boys in the Band”

Zackary Zeller
November 12, 2020

Directed by Joe Mantello, the Netflix adaptation of Broadway favorite “The Boys in the Band” is now on Netflix. The original play, written by Mart Crowley, follows the tale of a group of gay men celebrating a birthday party in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1968. Produced...

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“The Trial of the Chicago 7” review: the first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it

Soffia Hernandez
November 5, 2020

There are far too many films that are nothing more than guilty-pleasures. Netflix's “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” directed by Aaron Sorkin, isn’t one of them.  The film fields an all-star cast, including Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,...

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“Borat 2” review: A satire the world needs

Mason Dredge
November 4, 2020

“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” also known as “Borat 2,” is the only pleasant surprise to come out of 2020 so far. Having brought great shame on Kazakhstan after the...

“Tenet” review: Nolan should go back in time and make a better movie

“Tenet” review: Nolan should go back in time and make a better movie

Mason Dredge
September 8, 2020

“Tenet” is a bad movie, and not just by its director Christopher Nolan’s (one of Hollywood’s most bankable directors) standards. It is genuinely, for the most part, unentertaining and sometimes a downright chore to sit through. The film follows an unnamed spy (played...

Students’ thoughts on movie theater reopenings

Students’ thoughts on movie theater reopenings

Adeta Chareunsab
August 28, 2020

Nothing beats going to the movies with a couple of friends on a Friday night. Well, except COVID-19, of course. Throughout the summer, movie studios have delayed premieres or elected to release films via streaming platforms due to the pandemic. With summer coming to an...

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