The first Hamlet movie that comes to mind has always been Kenneth Branagh’s full-text adaptation. I only remember it because I watched his word-for-word version of the William Shakespeare tragedy in high school English. It was four hours. It took us four days to...
AI is all that anyone can talk about, but no one is really saying anything. Enter Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. As a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab, Buolamwini was doing work on facial...
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“Panic at the Disco” is an essay series that unpacks the impact of the Center Theatre Group’s new production of Here Lies Love. The critical journey will explore the complexities of artistic depictions of traumatic events and cultural figures in history and how it...
SXSW can be an overwhelming experience. For 10 days, you are bombarded by a tsunami of media, films, TV, tech, music, culture, and queso… lots of queso. This year, the annual SXSW fest takes place between March 12–18, curating a seven-day instead of 10-day...
“Panic at the Disco” is a new essay series that unpacks the impact of the Center Theatre Group’s new production of Here Lies Love. The critical journey will explore the complexities of artistic depictions of traumatic events and cultural figures in history and how...
Colin and Ray in Pillion will go down in cinematic history as one of the most romantic couples to grace the silver screen. Harry Lighton’s feature directorial debut is what Fifty Shades of Grey so desperately wanted to be: an “erotic comedy drama”. The main glaring...
This year’s Sundance Film Festival was the final one in Park City. When I landed, the air felt lighter, and either I am very jaded, but it just felt very neutral this year. It felt like Main Street wasn’t as bustling as in previous years, and the lack of...
“Panic at the Disco” is a new essay series that unpacks the impact of the Center Theatre Group’s new production of Here Lies Love. The critical journey will explore the complexities of artistic depictions of traumatic events and cultural figures in history and how...
