In early July of 2008, film critic Stephanie Zacharek was having breakfast—toast, eggs, black coffee—at a bistro in Downtown Brooklyn. She was preoccupied, to some extent. She had just posted her review of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight online for Salon.com, one of the most highly anticipated movies of that summer. Needless to say, she…
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The Streaming Wars are heating up. What does this mean for the future of content consumption?
The streaming wars have been heating up for years. Initially, it was Netflix’s game, as the popular service effectively defined streaming as we now know it before anyone even tried to compete. But as media companies started launching their own one-stop streamers, the landscape has shifted—slowly at first but increasingly fast of late. So what…
The Buzz! Week of April 6th
Here’s the buzz! By Sophia Karesh and Sydney Britt In the latest update on Will Smith’s Slapgate, Amy Schumer expressed discontent about the fact that Smith was let on stage to slap Chris Rock but she wasn’t allowed to say one specific joke about Don’t Look Up and Alec Baldwin shooting someone on accident. Schumer’s…
CODA’s Troy Kotsur Makes History at This Year’s Academy Awards
Troy Kotsur first made people cry when they watched CODA at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. This week he made us cry when he was the first deaf actor to receive an Oscar. When the film was first released, it was seen as the underdog in almost all categories. Its release date placed it in…
‘Flee’ makes Oscars history, and resonates with the refugee crisis
“Flee,” an animated documentary from director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, made history at the Oscars as the first film to be nominated in the documentary, animated, and international feature categories. The Danish documentary about the life of a queer Afghan refugee named Amin has been praised as a unique and important piece of filmmaking throughout awards…
The Buzz: Week of March 27
By Catalina Perez-De Arminan and Ashly Ibarra Ever since “The Slap” during the 64th Academy Awards held this past Sunday, March 27, Will Smith has dominated headlines worldwide. If you miraculously have not heard about this unforgettable incident, it happened after Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith during his presentation of Best…