Have you been hungrily awaiting the return of True Blood? Or perhaps have you always been curious about the HBO drama but scared off by the gore and violence? Well, the CW’s newest offering, Star-Crossed, may be just what you are looking for. It features Emery (Aimee Teegarden), a courageous, […]

The Academy Awards entertained 43 million people this past Sunday, the largest audience in ten years. This boost in the number of viewers could be due to increased advertising on , the promise of Ellen Degeneres’ satirical hosting style or the opportunity to see if the “fourth time would be […]

Dwight 101 called in an impressive crowd Tuesday, Feb. 18. Students and professors braved the snow and freezing air to hear film editor Nina Kleinberg’s lecture, “Deconstructing Casablanca.” Using an elaborate, custom-made presentation, Kleinberg broke down the film from the perspective of an editor. First she covered the script. In […]

As far as holidays go, Valentine’s Day is poorly represented in theaters. Christmas, Halloween and a few others seem to inspire a wide array of fun and exciting themed films. But Valentine’s Day movies, if and when they are made, tend to be tooth-achingly sweet and artificial; a perception that […]

Smooth Sailing for Black Sails The cable network Starz has tried to adapt and reinterpret classic novels in the past. Remember Camelot (2011), starring the infectious Jamie Campbell Bower and fabulous Eva Green? Perhaps it would be better not to. The almost universally panned show seemed to have all of […]

BEST PICTURE Nominees: American Hustle* Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street American Hustle, the beautifully executed crime romp that reunited Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence after 2012’s Oscar winning Silver Linings Playbook, seems destined to bring home the […]