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“It was easily the highlight of my day. This may seem dramatic but it’s eternally significant work. Good job, brother.” The above is what a friend texted me the night he attended the premiere of Our Place at the High School where I teach and co-direct the drama club, Schroeder Theater Company. I was struck. Last year, in the Winter …
A24 studios has recently released a new trailer for the film The Green Knight, an adaptation of the wonderful medieval Arthurian poem Gawain and the Green Knight. Along with the trailer – which revealed much more about the film than previous teasers – was a promised release in July. (The studio delayed sending the film to theaters last year due to …
People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right. -Sarah, “The Crow” Way back in …
French cinema. When you think of it, you likely think of art films shown exclusively in independent theaters — films in which little is explained and even less is understood. Maybe you picture Godard or Truffaut, foundational directors of the French New Wave era, or maybe you think of famous French actors that have made the leap to American cinema, like Marion Cotillard or Jean Dujardin. Or hey, maybe the word “French” just makes you think of Ratatouille, which, while not French in origin, still taught us how to pronounce the famous culinary dish…
For some regrettable reason, I watch Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s hit adult animated TV show, Rick & Morty. The show, which streams online and airs on Adult Swim among other shows like it, is a witty, irreverent, sci-fi sitcom that originated from a dark parody of Back to the Future. The episodes revolve around Rick Sanchez, an elderly alcoholic …
“It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.”Terrence Malick’s new film, A Hidden Life, is based on the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer. The film begins in 1939 when Jägerstätter lives a seemingly idyllic life in the Austrian countryside. He farms the land, lives in a tight-knit community, and has a happy family. Scenes depict Jägerstätter …
As a lover of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, I have waited with wincing anticipation for the release of the new biopic. Honestly, I worried and fussed in all the days leading up to the screening of Tolkien.On the one hand, I really wanted to love this film. I love biopics, where in the warp and weft of great filmmaking, a director …
The latest arts review episode from the Forefront team. 00:30 – Nate reviews First Man 12:28 – Sean discusses Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto and a local compline service 19:52 – Rich reviews The Crucible and Over the Garden Wall Listen above or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
In today’s world of social action and hypersensitivity (righteous and otherwise) to championing the forgotten and underrepresented, we are still neglecting our perhaps most undervalued group – anyone who isn’t between the ages of 15 and 29.
Everybody loves sequels. We all love the idea that a story we enjoyed is continuing, that we get to see “what happens next” to characters we care about, and that maybe we’ll get the same feeling back that we had when we watched the original — perhaps in an even deeper and better way. But everybody hates sequels. Because so …
