“The Weekend Away” had the potential to be the next go-to tourist psychological thriller in the vein of the “Taken” franchise — it has the scenery, the celebrity name recognition and the drama. Who wouldn’t want to watch a film that depicts the idyllic backgrounds of Split, Croatia while ...
Of all the names on the campus music scene, Chance Emerson ’23.5 is likely one of the most widely known. Since getting his start by self recording what would become his first EP in the attic of his high school’s music building, he’s released a debut album, amassed over 24,000 monthly listeners ...
University Organist Mark Steinbach sat tall before the Sayles Hall Hutchings-Votey Organ. From the audience’s vantage point, his back was still as his hands glided from one level of the organ to the next and his feet moved from one pedal to another. With every movement, Steinbach filled Sayles ...
Released on HBO Max, Steven Soderbergh’s “KIMI” shows the auteur’s unfailing mastery. Despite its small screen release, “KIMI” tells a pulse-pounding tale of survival in a kinetic era in which fears of tech surveillance, privacy invasion and artificial intelligence inventions outwitting ...
Fashion@Brown welcomed Julee Wilson, director of beauty at Cosmopolitan magazine, and Amy Synnott, CEO and founder of Metaspark Media, to their virtual speaker series moderated by Thalia Bonas ’24 Monday afternoon.
To tie it all together, the new film is a full three hours, a length that seems to be the breaking point for many moviegoers. So the question to be asked is twofold: is its length justified, and does its creation stand out in an already crowded market of Batman adaptations?
Fashion@Brown continued its lineup for Fashion Week with a virtual visit from Brooke Shields. Shields — an icon in fashion, film, modeling, television and recent entrepreneur — participated in a conversation on Zoom. The event was moderated by F@B member Elliot Stephanopoulos ’25.
Actress and influencer Claudia Sulewski joined Fashion@Brown for a virtual conversation Wednesday evening. The event, which was free and amassed hundreds of viewers, was moderated by Alexandra Vitkin ’24. Sulewski joined the Zoom event from her home in Los Angeles.
Elton John, the 74-year-old singer, donned a baby blue suit with a picture of a bedazzled cat on the back of the blazer as he stood on the stage of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on March 2. The Brooklyn performance is one stop on his final tour, “Farewell Yellow Brick Road.” He sat ...
Brown Fashion Week kicked off to a lively start with a virtual interview featuring former InStyle Editor-in-Chief Laura Brown. Known for her profiles of Michelle Obama, Janet Jackson and Hillary Clinton, Brown spent the hour giving students advice on navigating the journalism world and the fashion ...
Through both the creativity of gameplay mechanics and their immersive decision making processes, video games have always been an exciting world to draw the latest blockbuster from. So it’s no surprise that one of last month’s most anticipated releases was an adaptation of a video game series ...
Mezcla — Brown/RISD’s Latinx dance troupe — opened their doors around 6:15 p.m. on March 3 to welcome viewers to Alumnae Hall for their first show since 2020. An hour later, there was not one empty seat in the house. Attended by an audience of over 300 at each performance, Mezcla’s ...
One of the first in-person events for the Painting Department at the Rhode Island School of Design since the COVID-19 pandemic began, “Painting 1” celebrates RISD seniors’ artwork while challenging traditional definitions of painting. Installed at RISD’s Woods-Gerry Gallery, ...
After watching “King Richard,” many audience members might come out of the film feeling like they’ve seen it before. Although the content of the film is novel, as the story of Venus and Serena Williams has never been told from their father’s point of view, its overarching theme is decidedly ...
Back in June 2019, a new show aired on HBO. With dazzling lights, eccentric makeup, gripping storylines and a side of superb acting, “Euphoria” immediately drew in a young adult audience — a switch from the traditional Gen ...
When Netflix released the first season of “Love Is Blind” in February 2020 — a reality TV show where couples meet and “date” without seeing each other until they are in love enough to get engaged — the idea of bonding with someone from two separate rooms seemed unimaginable. But, two ...
“People fool themselves.” It is this chilling truth that overshadows the fatalistic trajectories of fallible characters in Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-nominated melodrama, “Nightmare Alley,” a remake of the classic 1947 noir based on William Lindsay Gresham’s novel of the same name. ...
In his latest directorial endeavor, Jude Sandy ’05 MFA’09 is helming Providence-based Trinity Repertory Company’s production of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.” The play is the first of ten in Wilson’s “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each detailing the African American ...
When making a movie, “why” is a question that should be asked constantly. Why are the characters doing what they are doing? Why should this movie be made? Why should the audience care? The whys of “Don’t Look Up” are all over the place.
On Saturday night, Production Workshop’s performance art piece “VIBRATIONS” opened at the PW downspace. The hour-long experimental show, which closes tonight, explores the different ways the body experiences sound and music by depicting a series of dream sequences.
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