Review: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Hocus Pocus" bring the girl power.
Joss Whedon’s 1992 teen flick Buffy the Vampire Slayer laid the ground work for his television show of the same name. The most popular girl in her high school, Buffy must move from vapid cheerleader to vampire hunter. In every age, one teenage girl is chosen to defend humanity from the vampires. When one slayer dies, the next is summoned.
Review: The South Korean vampire flick is gorgeous, gory and carnal.
Park Chan-Wook, the filmmaker almost singlehandedly responsible for exporting South Korea’s manic, audacious brand of cinema to the States, flirted with the horror aesthetic for almost a decade before he made Thirst.
Arts journalism grad student Greg Cwik muses on music selections that complement his studying.
When the realization of midterms’ looming presence finally becomes a bitter reality— that inevitable convulsion of clarity a splinter in your mind you’ve been picking at for five weeks but only now grasp, and you descend upon the library with your fellow classmates in droves, long serpentine lines of sweat pants three-days worn and iPhones fast-tracked to Wikipedia shimmering in the sun and headphones planted in ears with the dependency of pacemakers, and every study room is...
Piterbarg's directorial debut is a tense, engaging exploration of identity.
From the black of the first frame, there is a hum as the patient reveal of buzzing honeybees culminates with the replacement of a hive queen. The placidity and the sound build an anxiety in this opening sequence that sets the tone for the film. Someone is going to get stung.
In Everybody Has a Plan first time director Ana Piterbarg creates an engaging, swampy-noir thriller that balances an unhurried pace with a quickly unraveling lie.
The evocative music that runs through the comedic webseries is the effective result of SU student collaborations.
As bottles of Guinness and Bud Light are cleared away and a bright yellow piece of paper expands across the wooden table, fans of the web show,Howard Rights His Wrongs, can hear the theme song kick in as the episode begins. What fans may not have known, is that the theme song along with the musical underscore, was created by Syracuse University students.
Review: Creator Joe Blum's comedic webseries and the art inspired by it are greeted enthusiastically at a packed reception.
A packed house, techno beats, art and comedy filled Craft Chemistry on Saturday night for the artist reception of Howard Rights His Wrongs and 15 other local artists. Excited attendees from SU and the Syracuse community gathered to support creator, actor and writer Joe Blum in his reception for the webseries.
Review: Haneke's Palme d'Or winning film successfully portrays the visceral and tragic sides of a husband's devotion.
Shocking and brutally honest is Michael Haneke’s new movie, Amour. Most of the film takes place in the Parisian apartment of an 80-year-old couple who has to face a hard situation: She suffered a stroke and the right side of her body was paralyzed.
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Hi. I am glad to see that someone else review blogged Dracula besides the Syracuse Newspaper. I was there and I loved it. I take adult ballet classes in Rochester but have also taken a years worth...
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