Season five starts with a bang: 7 year old Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) is kidnapped, and our beloved group of heroes scramble to save her from the humanoid monster Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower.) Holly becomes a critical character for the season, but that decision was a mistake. Fisher aces the role, but introducing Wheeler as...
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Analog media solves the Netflix problem
Netflix plans to buy Warner Bros. in a billion dollar deal. Courtesy | Netflix When news broke that Netflix wanted to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. studios, the film industry responded in horror. Concerned articles and explosive statements cited the dreaded consequences, fearful of ethical concerns regarding Netflix’s screenwriting regulations. The solution is to abandon...
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Safdie’s Marty is not so supreme
The poster for Marty Supreme. Courtesy | Marty Supreme Instagram Marty Mauser can’t stop moving. It’s what makes him such a fantastic table tennis player and a terrible father-to-be. The fatherhood is alleged, at least in Marty’s eyes: The childhood friend he’s been having an affair with is pregnant, and she claims it’s his. But...
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Calling all critics: Take a stand and win a grand
When art critic William Newton gave a lecture on the decline of art criticism in February, the interest of the journalism and art department students inspired Newton and alumnus Nate Stewart ’95 to create the Kenyon Cox Art Critics Essay Competition to allow students to practice the craft of art criticism. The new writing competition...