Movies
'Birdman' earns its wings
When you listen to a great jazz ensemble, there is a constant rhythm pulsating through the entire audience. The musicians come together, each bringing their own unique flair. You cannot tell whether...
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'Big Hero 6' is just another animated product
There are Hispanic, Asian and African American characters, but so little time is devoted to those supporting roles that they might as well be token friends on a checklist. ...
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In 'Interstellar,' Christopher Nolan's mind is on Earth
The most powerful moments in “Interstellar” don’t come from the awe of seeing planets towering over a speck of a spaceship, but rather from the moments between Cooper and his daughter. ...
Theater
It's astounding, time is fleeting
Rotating between actors, the cast continually engaged with the audience by running around and through the aisles, simulating Dr. Frank N. Furter’s numerous trysts through a sheet and helping the audience to ...
Movies
Don't settle for just 'Saw'
It was the perfect climate for horror films to flourish and it’s no coincidence that some of the best and most popular German Expressionist films were such. ...
Movies
The experiment succeeds at Transient Visions: movies don't need a plot
While the excitement of experimental film has conquered the art scene in Downtown Binghamton, this trend has not carried over into the student body — not even students interested in cinema. ...
Movies
'Fury' is just another movie about the awfulness of war
The only way to prove his thesis is to show the most visceral violence imaginable while eliciting shallow tears and horrors. ...
Television
Marvel at TV's best heroes
While it may not be the first time some of these heroes have made television, their contemporary iterations are a part of an effort to produce corresponding superhero fiction in a market ...
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Harpur Cinema starts rolling, slowly
Its lack of variety in pacing or in including other kinds of shots made the narrative fall flat, and the movie feel like one where nothing was moving, both literally and figuratively. ...
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'The Judge' guilty of clichés
ll the surrounding characters, played by a great but underused supporting cast, serve as conduits to keep the momentum of the father-and-son dynamic moving. ...