In contemporary filmmaking, there are few phrases that can evoke more fear in the mind of a moviegoer than that of “social commentary.” It’s not that commenting on social issues is inherently bad; rather, these commentaries can feel more smug and contrived than beneficial to any given social ...
“Ticket to Paradise,” the new movie starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, could not have appeared any more appealing to audiences than it did throughout its marketing run. The movie promised a star-studded cast including Kaitlyn Dever from “Booksmart” and “Dear Evan Hansen,” French ...
On Wednesday, Maggie Nelson — New York Times bestselling author of 10 books of poetry and prose — read from her latest book, “On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint.” She discussed how we “think, experience and talk about freedom” for an audience at the Granoff Center for the Creative ...
At the Brown Design Workshop’s annual costume open hours Thursday evening, workshop monitors joined undergraduates in assembling costumes for a weekend of Halloween festivities on campus. The Herald spoke to three students attending the event, all of whom rushed to complete their costumes ...
A line of students that stretched across the Main Green filed into Sayles Hall on Halloween night, buzzing with excitement as they took in the decorative cobwebs adorning the building’s balcony. The decorations come every year to Sayles, a key part of University Organist Mark Steinbach’s annual ...
There has always been a line in the cinematic world between the uncomfortable and the repulsive — good films know how to toe it; bad ones take either too much or too little graphic liberty. Undoubtedly, Netflix’s “The Good Nurse” falls into the former category, using discomfort as effectively ...
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum returned a Nigerian bronze sculpture, “Head of a King (Oba),” to the Nigerian National Collections Oct. 11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since 1939 and was one of 31 looted artifacts, also called Benin Bronzes, repatriated to Nigeria by American ...
Netflix’s latest big-budget horror series, the star-studded anthology “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” draws influence from various horror sub-genres, with episodes ranging from ghost stories to body horror and Lovecraftian eldritch terror. Composed of eight episodes each of ...
On Oct. 21, the Arctic Monkeys released their seventh studio album, “The Car,” in competition with pop sensation Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” and cult-favorite Carly Rae Jepsen’s “The Loneliest Time.” But unlike the widespread reach of its pop counterparts — both Swift and Jepsen ...
Every Halloween comes with one essential question: “What horror movie are we watching tonight?” Horror is a vast and ever-expanding genre filled with more sub-divisions than one can count, so answering this question is quite the task. Here are some movies from across the decades that might quell ...
Amidst the University’s creative scene, a small group of students found that there was one thing missing: an organization dedicated to TV writing and production.
On July 12, Marcus Mumford cleared his Instagram feed and posted a single picture: an announcement for his new album “(self-titled).” The news broke a surprising period of inactivity from the artist following the fracturing of Mumford’s Grammy Award-winning band “Mumford and Sons,” due ...
At the end of August, Taylor Swift announced her 10th studio album in an Instagram post and invited her fans to “meet her at midnight” on Oct. 21. “This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night,” ...
Down College Hill and across the Providence River stands a large brick wall, home to a mural that has become an integral part of Downtown Providence. The mural depicts a contemporary Narragansett woman holding a portrait of her tribal elder, surrounded by vivid and deeply symbolic imagery of native ...
“I’m coming back for you, baby. I’m coming back for you.” These catchy lines from Carly Rae Jepsen’s latest single “The Loneliest Time” took TikTok by storm, adding the single to a long list of songs that found popularity on the social media platform. “The Loneliest Time” ...
Didn’t realize Harry Styles was starring in another film this fall? You’re not alone. Now that the divisive, drama-packed press frenzy for “Don’t Worry Darling” has finally died down, the world is more than ready to move on. But Styles’s acting endeavors have not ended just yet, with ...
The 1975 are champions of a particular niche of the internet. With quotable lyrics and dreamy synths, the four-man band provides the perfect soundtrack to an indie aesthetic characterized by angst and grunge popular on Tumblr during the mid-2010s.
Amid the everyday bustle of Thayer St., Avon Cinema stands out as a relic of a bygone era. The incandescent marquee with hand-placed letters broadcasting the day’s films and their showtimes adorn the art deco building — a theatrical welcome hard to find in the current age of multiplexes. You ...
The third and final season of “Derry Girls,” a sitcom about the challenges of adolescence amid the Troubles in Northern Ireland, released in America on Netflix this month after airing on British Channel 4 earlier this year.
If there’s a band that knows how to deliver a slow-burn, it’s MUNA. With major label success almost in their grasp, the band was dropped by RCA Records in 2019. Although this decision was shocking and disheartening at first, looking back on the band’s time post-RCA, the drop might be better ...
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