“Taylor really meant it when she said ‘it feels like one of those nights we won’t be sleeping,’” joked a fan after seeing the track list of all thirty (30) songs on Red (Taylor’s Version). For the uninitiated, Taylor Swift has been systematically going through all her studio albums prior to Lover and re-recording them, […]
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Incoming: Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
As a lifelong fan of the Pokémon series, and more specifically a sucker for the remakes of original games, the impending release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is beginning to take shape and it can’t come soon enough. The oft-memed-about remakes to the fourth generation of Pokémon games, Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl […]
9-1-1: Diversity & Inclusion on Network TV
To those who are as familiar with showrunner Ryan Murphy as I am, he is the mastermind creator of American Horror Story, another recent darling of American television. However, viewers should not go watch 9-1-1 with the expectation of an American Horror Story spinoff.Rather, 9-1-1 is a drama and action TV series following Station 118 […]
MARVEL’S The Eternals: Chloé Zhao’s Foray Into The Superhero Blockbuster
Hold onto your hats and prepare for the superhero film event of a lifetime; because Marvel Studios is back with their newest blockbuster, the 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel’s Eternals. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, best credited for 2020’s Nomadland, this new odyssey on the MCU takes us farther into […]
Harryween: New York’s Preeminent Halloween Party
Harry Styles has been touring around America for ‘Love On Tour’ these past few months. However, for the last two days of October, he took a break from that tour and went to Madison Square Garden for a two-day-only ‘Harryween’ concert special. These concerts were extra special, because Harry had informed the fans when purchasing […]
The Enchanting World of BookTok
Everyone (at least, almost everyone) is familiar with the hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok. It‘s grown from a small video editing app to become one of the world’s biggest communication and social media forums, especially for the youngest generations, though older generations participate as well. Like most social media apps, TikTok implements what we nebulously […]
Director’s Cut: CHVRCHES – Screen Violence
“It’s not a long album—standard, really, at ten songs in 43 minutes,” I said at the beginning of the semester.I was talking about Chvrches and their dark and horror-movie-inspired fourth studio album, Screen Violence, which dropped earlier this year on Aug. 27. And, as if on cue for the spookiest time of the year, Chvrches […]
The Many Saints of Newark: The Origin of TV’s Most Iconic Characters
Tony Soprano. Silvio Dante. Paulie Walnuts. Christopher Moltisanti. Junior Soprano. Anyone who has seen the iconic early 2000s HBO show The Sopranos is instantly familiar with these names. And starting Oct. 1, fans of the wildly successful and iconic show were able to see the origin story of these characters, along with stories of new […]
Tragedy in New Mexico: What We Know About the ‘Rust’ Set Shooting
The production of the upcoming Western film Rust was “suspended indefinitely” on Thursday, after a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin killed the project’s cinematographer and injured its director. On Oct. 21, at 1:50 MT in the ghost town of Bonanza Creek, NM, director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 43, died after being apparently accidentally […]
In Context: The Rise of True Crime
On streaming sites like YouTube, Netflix and Hulu, there has been a rapid surge of content in the true crime niche. One true crime YouTuber alone named Kendall Rae has amassed over 2.9 million subscribers, and has over 444 million views. But, Ms. Rae did not start in true crime; back in 2012, when Ms. […]