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 ...
As is common with reboots, “Halloween Ends” fails to provide a captivating case for its existence. Its plot centers on a cast of uncompelling characters and relies on gruesome bloodshed for the story, leading the audience to wonder what happened to the original plot of the franchise.
Filmmakers and enthusiasts gathered in Cranston from Oct. 13 to 15 for the 14th annual Southeast New England Film Festival, which featured several series of short films in varying genres, including comedy and horror shorts, an LGBTQ series and two film series focused on New England. Founders ...
“Luckiest Girl Alive” is one of the craziest and most unexpected films of this year — but not in a good way. The film was marketed as a typical psychological thriller with an attractive woman as its lead, but viewers would never guess the gory twists and turns at its core. It’s the kind of ...
The search for a show to match Bridgerton in its gripping romance, captivating characters and jaw-dropping costumes is over. Netflix’s newly released “The Empress” provides what is perhaps an even more binge-worthy watch than Shondaland’s popular series. That is, if you don’t mind reading ...
Halloween is just around the corner, meaning abandoned warehouses will be stocked with cheaply made costumes, candy will be filling the aisles of your local CVS and movie studios will go searching for the dead horror franchise they can resurrect for a quick buck. “Hellraiser” is a new Hulu-exclusive ...
Looking down on Benefit Street from the top of College Hill Saturday, only a sea of bobbing heads was visible — adults, children and dogs all making their way slowly through a vibrant crowd. Myriad tables lined both sides of the street, displaying the creations of student and alum vendors at the ...
Do you ever walk around campus and get a spooky feeling? Do you sometimes feel like a Halloween movie could be filmed behind your dorm? If so, you’re not the only one. “Hocus Pocus 2,” a sequel to the 1993 cult classic “Hocus Pocus,” which was filmed about a year ago on the East Side of ...
The 24-Hour Play Festival, organized each semester by Shakespeare on the Green, challenges writers, actors and producers to collaborate on bringing a theater production from script to stage within 24 hours. Five plays were performed at two Saturday evening shows in T.F. Green Hall.
Throughout the history of Latin America, writers have challenged notions of a white-dominated literary canon by leaving an undeniable mark on literature in their home countries and across the world. Take Gabriel García Márquez, for example, who “deeply influenced” the British-Indian Salman ...
Cécile Fromont — a history of art professor at Yale — discussed her new book “Images on a Mission in Early Kongo and Angola” in front of an audience of Brown community members at the List Art Center Thursday. In the discussion, she outlined her analysis of illustrations created by ...
Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen, the inaugural Asian American artist-in-residence in the Department of American Studies last semester, didn’t always know how to write about her experiences as a Vietnamese American.
In 2009, four teenagers from Calabasas, California, made headlines for successfully robbing the homes of celebrities like Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Orlando Bloom. The group, known today as the Bling Ring, is the subject of a new Netflix mini-documentary series detailing their crimes and ...
Many first-years spend the opening months of the fall semester looking for new communities to join. While Brown’s campus offers numerous options — the University is home to over 500 organizations — each year, a large number gravitate toward a cappella. With 15 groups, Brown is ...
Every three years, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Painting Triennial highlights graduate student artwork and diverse approaches to painting. Installed at RISD’s Woods-Gerry Gallery, this year’s show opened Sept. 30 and will remain until Oct. 16. For RISD Graduate Program Director ...
When it was announced that “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, would receive an NC-17 rating, there was some confusion among the cast and general public. De Armas claimed that the rating was unwarranted, and people were left wondering how a film about the American ...
There are few performers who can arrive on stage in a sparkly green outfit with platform boots and greet an almost 20,000-person crowd with, “Hi bitch, did you miss me?” But for Lizzo, commanding an audience in this signature attitude is a breeze, and her latest “Special Tour” Friday night ...
Teens in the 2000s looked to acclaimed foreign shows such as “Skins,” “Skam” and “Degrassi” to portray the complexities of teenage life, as do teens now with “Sex Education.” In spite of some struggles, the Netflix reboot of the ‘90s Australian show “Heartbreak High” aims to ...
The growing popularity of the creative writing degree over the last 50 years has come with a growing critique of the institutionalization of writing. This discourse has often circled back to the same question: Can writing be taught?
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