Emma Greenleaf: This weekend should be exclusively dedicated to the insane amount of homework I have. But if I know myself at all, I'm sure I'll fit in a few movies/tv shows! I've been completely obsessed with Big Little Lies since the first episode premiered a few weeks ago. This weekend is the finale and I just cannot wait. The whole series has been leading up to this one night that's finally arrived in this upcoming episode. If it follows the pattern of past episodes, I know it will deliver. I'm also planning on going to see the new French horror/coming of age film RAW this weekend. I've been reading countless reviews/thinkpieces and it seems absolutely crazy. One LA theater was actua
Title: Get Out (2017) Genre: Horror Director: Jordan Peele Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Alison Williams Grade: A In a Nutshell: Get Out brilliantly reinvents the classic horror film plot by operating upon a system of inversions. True to the formula, an outsider, Chris Washington (played by Daniel Kaluuya), is brought into a radically different cultural community where the insiders are first deceptively kind, then hostile, and finally murderous. However, the story deviates in that the monstrous other culture is not the standard collection of backwards bumpkins, scumbag criminals, or demonized minorities, but rather consists of privileged, wealthy white Americans, who would normally be the casual
Welcome to our new weekly column, "The Weekend Watchlist," where every Friday the staff will be weighing in on what they're looking forward to watching over the weekend. We hope we can inspire you to do some weekend watching of your own! Shelby Cadwell This weekend I'm heading to the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference in Chicago, IL, which means I probably won't have time to watch much of anything. At least I do get to spend 4ish days listening to cool and interesting people talk about cool and interesting films, television shows, comics, video games, etc. Although I'm not sure that I qualify as either cool or interesting, I'll also be presenting my research on the Planet of the A
Title: Logan (2017) Genre: Action, Superhero, Drama Director: James Mangold Stars (Primary Actors): Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen Bias: I'm a huge fan of dark and gritty style superhero comics and films, so I'm predisposed to love R-rated Marvel flicks like Logan and Deadpool. If you prefer wholesome and morally unambiguous heroes, this film may not be for you. Grade: A In a Nutshell: It is the year 2029, and the mutant population has dwindled to almost nothing. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), now in his nineties, suffers from Alzheimer's disease and seizures, and is being kept safe and hidden just beyond the Mexico border by Logan, formerly known as Wolverine (Hugh J
