The latest film to take on the teenage girl archetype is called The Edge of Seventeen, which was written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. If you read over the reviews you’ll see a number of critics praising the film for not falling into a stereotype. The A.V. Club says “it reclaims smart sensitivity in […]Read Post ›
From technological advances to adaptations of style, cinema has transformed and evolved throughout the years, but despite the industry’s changes, mise-en-scene has remained relevant due to it’s artistic importance. The term mise-en-scene is French for ‘placed in a scene’ or ‘onstage’. It refers to the different parts of a shot that are purposefully crafted in […]Read Post ›
View Dissected Scene Here This scene takes place when Sam, Frodo, and Sméagol are in Osgiliath with Faramir and his men. During this time, the city is failing to stop Sauron’s army from overrunning it. Also, Merry and Pippen are rallying the Elks in order to destroy the mines in Isengard while Gandalf, Aragorn, Legalos, […]Read Post ›
As I rode the Santiago metro to the National Museum of Fine Arts, more than a couple men bumped into me. No matter how much it irritates me, it is something I’ve grown used to from living in cities. Though people talk about Latin American machismo, I haven’t noticed much of a difference in […]Read Post ›
Too expansive to be housed in the Seattle Art Museum, “The Art of the Brick” is being shown in Seattle at the Pacific Science Center. The exhibit opened May 28th and will be on view until September 11, 2016. As the Science Center advertises, CNN named it one of the top ten “Global Must-See Exhibitions” […]Read Post ›
Alexander Hamilton’s life story, for all its drama, was always an unlikely source for a smash hit on Broadway. Hamilton favored rule by the elite in an already elitist society. He was adulterous, impulsive and privileged. But Lin-Manuel Miranda, like many musical theatre composers before him, saw in this unlikely source the chance to reform […]Read Post ›
Lin-Manuel Miranda was first introduced to the Schuyler sisters while on vacation.
After five years of construction, a new Disneyland theme park has been opened in Pudong, Shanghai, China this past Thursday. The park is part of a larger Shanghai Disney Resort which features two themed hotels as well as a commercial center called Disneytown. The opening of the theme park and resort has been long anticipated […]Read Post ›
“We are living in the age of Hamilton,” admitted Annette Gordon-Reed at a recent book talk. Reed’s comment is surprising: she’s a leading scholar on Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton’s rival. But her praise is not; nowadays, everyone loves Hamilton.
Broad City, a Comedy Central critical darling, took a deeply serious turn from its usual witty surrealism in the recent season three episode “Burning Bridges.” Best friends Abbi and Ilana have spent the series navigating their twenties in New York and getting into increasingly silly and consequence-free hijinks, but season three has been a slow […]Read Post ›
The Female Gaze 