Making Light of Sensitive Issues in Modern Television by Catherine Goldberg ’20 A&E Staff A popular Netflix original among teens and college students, Insatiable, aired this past summer on Netflix. Lauren Gussis created the comedy-drama series which stars former Disney Channel actress Debby Ryan. It is based on a 2014 article from the […]
by: Madeline Weaver-Nolting ’19 A&E Staff Watching a TV show from the perspective and narration of the bad guy is exactly what the Lifetime-turned-Netflix show You does. It is the classic horror stereotype: man meets woman, woman falls in love, and man ends up being a sociopathic monster, with the slight exception that everything is […]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Breaks the Web-Slinging Mold by: Peter Keough ’20 A&E Staff It is not uncommon in the realm of comic book movies to observe criticism of the repetitiveness of the genre. While powerhouses such as Marvel and DC are in the throes of building large-scale interconnected universes, releasing multiple box office smash […]
Film Adaptation of Successful War Novel Falls Short by: Anne DeLello ’20 A&E Staff Sometimes the book is better than the movie. This past week the movie, Ashes in the Snow, premiered, based on the book, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. Set in the Soviet Union during World War II, the novel is […]
How Meme Culture Propagated the Netflix Original’s Success by: Brigid Walshe ’19 A&E Staff Winter break is the perfect opportunity for many of us to sit at home and binge-watch our favorite shows or movies, and it seems like this winter break there was one Netflix original movie that everyone was talking about: Bird Box. […]
New Black Mirror Project Polarizing for Loyal Fans Technology comes with countless possibilities and the anthology series, Black Mirror, has taken the simultaneous hope and angst associated with this and expanded it further. The show, which is now streaming its episodes through Netflix, highlights some of the pitfalls of human dependence on new, often hypothetical, […]
by: William Burleigh ’19 A&E Staff Last week, The Cowl discussed Widows, a new gritty heist thriller from director Steve McQueen, which was released on Nov. 16. Widows—which follows the wives of four thieves who die in an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago and their scheme to finish the job after their husbands’ deaths—has […]
by William Burleigh ’19 A&E Staff One of the most critically acclaimed movies currently playing in theaters is Widows, a gritty heist thriller released on Nov. 16. The intense plotline follows the wives of four thieves who die in an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago, their scheme to finish the job after their husbands’ […]
by William Burleigh ’19 A&E Staff One of the most critically acclaimed movies currently playing in theaters is Widows, a gritty heist thriller released on Nov. 16. The intense plotline follows the wives of four thieves who die in an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago, their scheme to finish the job after their husbands’ […]
by Julia Vaccarella ’20 A&E Staff It is no question that many of the songs and albums created by the members of the renowned British rock group, Queen, continue to enrapture many listeners to this day. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the film, Bohemian Rhapsody, which chronicles the band’s major milestones and highlights […]