by Vonne Slayden For my COVID isolation period, I resolved to watch a lot of films. At first, I had planned to watch all the Academy Award nominees available, treating the task with soldierly determination. I began by alternating the often long, quiet and muted-color-palette …
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Ride the Stallion or bless the Barbie
by Nemsie Gonzalez If you haven’t already seen icon Nicki Minaj’s meltdowns on TikTok, X, Instagram live or Spotify, I encourage you to stop reading right now and listen to “Bigfoot.” And no, you should not listen to the acoustic version. You’ll find that the …
The Oscar nominations and Barbie: Honored or snubbed?
by Tori DiPasquale The Academy Awards are often a site for social and political debate. Recall: the slap, the wrongful win of “La La Land,” “Parasite” winning best picture (angering then-President Trump) and, going way back, like Sacheen Littlefeather accepting the best actor award on …
Cheers to bottles, bathtubs and beautiful people
By: Alex Markland ’26 In Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” Oliver Quick, played by Barry Keoghan, makes passionate and aggressive love to a gravesite. This scene consists of a single shot which lasts for one minute and 50 seconds. Most of the discourse surrounding “Saltburn” centers on …
But you better not kill the groove
By: Ama Toure Ban D My return to Ohio, despite being grounded by four-wheel drive, was quite turbulent. It started with me, a bum-esque jobless 22 year old living in my mother’s basement, used to sleeping in however long the hangover from the previous night …
It’s a murder on the dancefloor: a review of the music in “Saltburn”
Julia Garrison News Editor 3.5/5 stars Before I watched “Saltburn,” I had heard a lot of warnings from others to watch at my own risk. When I sat down to watch the movie with friends, I felt like I was missing something. Sure, there were …