The 80s had “Heathers,” the 90s had “Clueless” and the 2000s had “Mean Girls.” These films defined their generations with their distinctive and sometimes unrealistic portrayal of teens of the time, becoming the blueprint for the high school romance genre.
On Friday, the Bell and Cohen Galleries unveiled the traveling exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which features artists who have either been or are incarcerated, as well as those whose work aims to shed light on the realities of incarceration.
The paintings were made with the help of various materials and utensils to a soundscape that included fragments of pop songs and compass directions.
This August, we saw the return of the lovable yet frequently infuriating Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) in Mindy Kaling’s Netflix original “Never Have I Ever.” Between more love triangles than one can count on their fingers and a range of emotional breakdowns, Devi’s third ...
It’s no secret that the last decade has been a slow descent into complete creative bankruptcy for Disney. The studio that once made dreams come true now lays out smorgasbords of uninspired, unoriginal content ranging from botched Marvel sequels to live-action remakes of Disney classics that feel ...
Fitt Artist-in-Residence Jazzmen Lee-Johnson MA ’15 spoke Thursday evening about her recent exhibition, “Not Ever More,” at a talk hosted by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Lee-Johnson’s work is “informed by a yearning to understand how ...
Netflix is known for producing a slew of romantic comedies of questionable quality — think “The Kissing Booth” — which become fun, bad binge watches. Unfortunately, “Love in the Villa,” released on Netflix Sept. 1, falls short of even that category, delivering a bad and boring viewing ...
Over three years after the severely suboptimal finale of “Game of Thrones,” the battle for the seven kingdoms has returned to HBO — with a completely different timeline and cast. Some names are familiar — Targaryen, for instance, is the show’s central house — while others have been added ...
If you didn’t know that a Netflix movie titled “I Came By” was released a little over a week ago, you would not be alone. Netflix seems to have adopted a quantity-over-quality release strategy, producing as much content as they can with the least amount of marketing possible. If a film ...
On Friday, Ali Sethi — a Pakistani singer, songwriter and author — performed at the inauguration of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, a new center at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Sethi shared the stage with musicians Shayna Esther Dunkelman and Grey ...
“End of the Road” could have been the next great roadtrip action-thriller movie — it has a stellar cast, including Queen Latifah and Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges, intriguing scenery and a strong premise. But the pacing and script ultimately led this Netflix original film to be 90 minutes ...
When Comedy Central’s docu-reality comedy television series “Nathan For You” ended in November 2017, viewers were left with a doozy of a finale. The show usually followed Nathan Fielder as he came up with out-of-the-box solutions for struggling small businesses. Most famously, he changed the ...
School is back — and so is another attempt at rebooting an early 2000s show. This time, “Pretty Little Liars” is getting ready for its Gen Z makeover in a HBO Max rework, “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin.”
Feathers of every color covered 34th Street in New York City Saturday night. Groups of girls in boas, crop tops, ripped jeans and exuberant makeup stood outside Madison Square Garden, waiting for doors to open to the 360 degree stage inside. It was the ninth night of a total of 15 shows at Madison ...
In one way or another, Seabass Immonen ’23 has been making art his whole life. And, in one way or another, he has always practiced his own forms of activism. But in the last few years, particularly since he started in the Brown-RISD Dual Degree program, these two sectors of his life have converged. ...
From Oscar Wilde’s trial to the discourse surrounding Virginia Woolf’s affair with Vita Sackville-West, conversations about sexuality have been linked to many literary greats. But beyond the sexuality of individual authors, queerness has played a deeper and often less recognized role in shaping ...
The Providence Public Library kicked off its 2022 spring exhibition and program series in April with “Tomboy,” an exhibition featuring art, clothing, archival materials and more as part of a conversation on gendered expectations and what the term tomboy has meant over time.
Something about “The Northman” is a little unfair. As much as any filmmaker can try to make something intriguing and novel to strike a chord with the audience, little can match the intensity and excitement of a Viking revenge thriller. Director Robert Eggers clearly knew this when making the ...
On Friday, the Ivy Film Festival hosted a virtual conversation with Ita O’Brien, the intimacy coordinator for “Sex Education,” “Normal People,” “Brave New World” and “I May Destroy You,” among other productions. “An intimacy coordinator is somebody who brings a clear ...
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” produced by Brown Opera Productions, opened in Alumnae Hall Friday night. Based on the 1979 operetta by Stephen Sondheim, “Sweeney Todd” tells the story of the titular barber who kills his clients and sends them to be baked into meat ...
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