The Byrdes have nowhere to hide from themselves. “Ozark,” a thriller about an uprooted criminal family’s move to the eponymous Ozarks region, is now in the first half of its fourth and final season. The show follows Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), his wife Wendy (Laura Linney ’86) and ...
Author and RISD Professor Matthew Shenoda spoke Thursday evening at an event featuring readings of his poetry, his thoughts on social equity and inclusion at RISD and everything in between.
If you happened to be one of the many people walking on West 49th Street and 6th Avenue around 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 14, you would have seen about 35 people decked out in their warmest clothes camping behind a barricade. Underneath the overhang of NBC’s famous Rainbow Room in New York City sat the ...
HBO’s satirical drama series "Succession" returned for Season 3 with its usual acidity. The dialogue is quick, the comedy acute; its moments of raw honesty are even more potent as a result. With media tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox) callous as ever, his children are given two options: either shove ...
Released exclusively on Hulu on Jan. 18, “How I Met Your Father” offers a sequel to “How I Met Your Mother,” a television series that ran from 2005 to 2014. While nostalgic HIMYM fans might have looked forward to the pilot, the first episodes call into question whether the next series ...
Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, “Drive My Car” follows Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) a widowed theater actor who goes to Hiroshima for a two-month artist’s residency to direct a production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”
“Intertwine,” the fashion-show, dance recital and charity auction orchestrated in collaboration by Fashion@Brown and Fusion Dance Company, brought a lively performance to Alumnae Hall this past Sunday evening. The event was “the most unique thing that F@B, or Fusion or Alumnae Hall has ever ...
As TikTok and similar social media platforms continue to dominate young people’s screens and content consumption, some students have managed to build a large Internet following of their own as content creators.
On Thursday, Dec. 2, Brown Motion Pictures held their Fall 2021 Premiere at Avon Cinema on Thayer Street. The event consisted of screenings of four short films made entirely by student members of Brown Motion Pictures, addressing issues from mental health to LGBTQ+ representation.
Bravo’s “The Real Housewives” franchise is used to drama. Drinks are often thrown, gossip is spread and scandals abound. Sometimes, this drama exits the franchise’s limits and becomes a real-world spectacle. In 2013, Teresa Giudice, of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” fame, was charged ...
Paul Thomas Anderson is a titan amongst contemporary filmmakers. For the past 25 years, he has been making masterpiece after masterpiece — from the hilarious and deeply dark portrait of the 1970s porn industry in “Boogie Nights” to the rich and epic character study of a 19th century oil prospector ...
“Passing,” actor Rebecca Hall’s shining directorial debut, reproduces the finest details of Nella Larsen’s brilliantly crafted 1929 novel. In the face of the seemingly insurmountable challenge of bringing Larsen’s delicate prose to life, the 2021 Netflix production mesmerizes the audience ...
Remember all those times Ryan Reynolds joked about his epic regrets about starring in “Green Lantern,” the 2011 superhero film which currently sits at a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes? Now he can add the film “Red Notice” to his self-deprecating skits.
“Musically and lyrically, ‘Red’ resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together at the end,” Taylor Swift said in her Instagram post announcing ...
Jesus steps onto the stage from the back corner. He’s wearing jeans, sneakers and a Patriots t-shirt. He walks a few feet forward, then says almost nonchalantly, “Hey.”
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s latest exhibit, “Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities” showcases 60 pieces spanning the early career of Shahzia Sikander, MacArthur award winner and RISD trustee.
Diana, Princess of Wales, is undoubtedly one of the great pop culture icons of modern history. Her glamour and philanthropy followed by an untimely and tragic death — all set against the backdrop of British royalty — yield a truly idiosyncratic and fascinating figure to explore.
“ASSHOLE!” shouts the crowd in unison. It’s Nov. 7, the closing night of the Musical Forum’s production of “The Rocky Horror Show.” Brad, played by Rhys Long ’24, has just tried (unsuccessfully) to shield his fiancé Janet, played by Mia Lane ’24, from the wandering eye of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, ...
Music producer, singer-songwriter and director Jeymes Samuel’s “The Harder They Fall” is not a typical Hollywood Western. The film score is bold with contemporary pop sounds, the sets are pristine — rarely cloaked in dust — and the characters, although beaten up, are not afraid to laugh ...
Wes Anderson has found the infallible cinematic form in the The New Yorker magazine. His newest film, “The French Dispatch,” released Oct. 22, is based on The New Yorker and the tenure of Harold Ross, who led the magazine from 1925 until his death in 1951. The film is bookended by the death of ...
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