Arts and Culture

In August of 2018, controversy arose surrounding the announcement that an award for “Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film” would be given out at the 2019 Academy Awards. Although the “Popular Film” Oscar did not live long enough to be awarded, backlash from academy members, journalists, and moviegoers alike caused the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to pull the category less than a month later. Criticism came […]

Bong Joon Ho’s new film is a beautiful, tragic, and hilarious exploration of the class struggle

The category is “Susperia, but make it department store chic”. Peter Strickland pays homage to vintage giallo horrors and Hammer Film Production with In Fabric. It takes place in a distorted version of either 1970s or 1980s England, in a fictional town that clings to the fading idea of luxury where a beautiful artery-red dress wreaks havoc on the lives of all who come in contact with it. While the premise

Content Warning: Mentions of domestic violence.  A story of an old world clashing with a new and brutal one, with all the hypocrisy and ugliness that such a story entails. Blanche DuBois (Amy Rutherford) has come to live with her sister Stella (Leah Doz) and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski (Mac Fyfe) in their New Orleans apartment after losing her job as a high school teacher and her ancestral plantation home, Belle Reeve, amid dubious circumstances. She immediately develops