Film Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By Michaela Dwyer | October 18, 2012I turned toward the rows behind me and wondered aloud—with passive-aggressive inflection—why everyone thought these parts were laughable.
I turned toward the rows behind me and wondered aloud—with passive-aggressive inflection—why everyone thought these parts were laughable.
‘Allelujah! represents a strong return to what made Godspeed famous—music that traverses several distinct emotions in a single track.
We are all too content to know that another person has the same tastes without wondering how they got there.
I think about electronic dance LPs in the same way I think about baseball lineups.
An uncharacteristically informal quote by Lenin promoting the soft drink—“It’s the Real Thing”—gives the fake-ad the explicitly dissident comedy the artist intended.
Chances are Part II will immediately make you feel uncomfortable.
Straying from the likeable, fun character he often plays, McConaughey becomes the Southern-mannered, calculated-yet-cold, creepy, viscous and perverted Killer Joe.
It’s great that artists like Tom Waits, John Cale and even Thurston Moore are embracing the creativity of this generation on not just resting on their laurels of past success.
Everyone agrees (or at least I hope everyone agrees) that we should remember Nina Simone. But which Simone?
Burton just wanted to give us a story about the simple love between a boy and his dog.
17 days. Three Duke students. Two exceptional faculty members. One big city.
The Eye of the Storm is a schadenfreude-laced study of the gritty side of family drama.
Let’s begin at the beginning, and let’s get personal. Quickly.
It's about being confident in what you know, and what you don’t know, and what you believe in, and finding a way to articulate that.
“You really notice different things about water, or whatever your subject is, when you have a camera in your hand."
If there’s one word to describe The Mountain Goats, it’s prolific.
Looper is smart, tough-minded, witty and unpredictable.
“The selection and breadth of the films are a result of this collaboration between departments, and it is a beautiful thing.”
FlyLo lovers, haters and newbies can unite over Ellis’s latest mindchild.
I am trying to convey a simple notion: art is what you make it.