Disclaimer: Spoilers Ahead (500) Days of Summer (2009) is one of my favorite films I’ve seen. Even from the first moments, where the director’s disclaimer about Jenny Beckman, presumably a woman who broke his heart, is superimposed over a black screen, I was hooked. The movie follows the lives of Tom Hansen and Summer Finn […]
Amidst the chaos going on with ABC, Dancing with the Stars has begun its 34th season. DWTS is a reality competition that pairs celebrities and professional dancers. Each week, the couples perform a ballroom dance in front of judges, getting votes from both the judges and the fans watching from home. Once all the votes […]
To many, there was always a certain glow to movies from the previous century. Maybe it was the way the film met the light while capturing the action, allowing a fabulous fuzz to appear on our screens nearly 50 years later. Audiences could go to theaters to see dreams captured on celluloid and movies where […]
In 1999, when HBO released the first episode of The Sopranos, the standard for television shows changed. The Sopranos followed the life of Tony Soprano, a sociopathic mob boss who had to balance the drama of his biological family and his organized crime family. This show kick-started the Golden Age of television shows, which we […]
Why Netflix’s Unknown Number Documentary was Bad On Aug. 29, Netflix released a new documentary that was guaranteed to get buzz because of its sheer evil. Unknown Number: The High School Catfish centers around teenager Lauryn and her ex-high school boyfriend Owen, and how their lives were forever changed due to the digital harassment and […]
Nostalgia Done Right Coming back to Providence College after this summer, I was reminded of the summer of 2020. Perhaps not as fresh to many people anymore—maybe even purposefully forgotten, due to the COVID-19 pandemic—but nonetheless, it’s a time that has stuck with us for reasons we probably did not see at the time. I […]
Sarah McCall ’26 Hosted this week by John Mulaney and featuring musical guest Chappell Roan, episode five of Saturday Night Live’s 50th season was a hit. Airing mere days before a historic election, there was pressure to deliver great sketches and a memorable cold open following the political theme this season’s cold opens have maintained. […]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, another Tim Burton classic Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice has undoubtedly become a cult classic since its 1988 release (not to mention one of my favorite movies). The film seamlessly combines elements of comedy and horror, bringing a lighthearted element to its eerie undertones. The star-studded cast (including Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and […]
In most years, only a few films released in the first half of the calendar year solidify themselves as major Oscar contenders. For the past few years, it seemed as if this precedent of awarding only late-in-the-year releases had been dismantled. 2022’s Best Picture winner CODA was released in August, 2023’s winner Everything Everywhere All […]
Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for Grey’s Anatomy. In the current entertainment industry, there always seems to be a television series that seems to lack the ability to accept its winnings and make the difficult decision to announce the final season. This mindset is reasonable: if a television series is successful, tells a good […]