by Alice McIntyre Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the last film directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a wonderful walk through an anxious maze. Based on the novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut follows the doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) as he deals with the ramifications of jealousy. The night […]
Oedipus Complex
with Fiore Amore There is no place on this planet more freakish than Middle America. Nothing has been more antithetical to enthusiasm, such potent fuel for that most pervasive disease known as depression. My descent into it was a point-blank stare into the raw id of this country. Convention dictates […]
Spoiler Warning: “Red Dawn” and the Remnants of Ronald Reagan
by Alice McIntyre “Red Dawn” (1984) is a delightful, paranoid trainwreck. The film, directed by John Milius and starring Patrick Swayze, depicts a group of high-school students at the outset of World War Three. Forming a guerrilla force named after their school mascot, the “Wolverines,” this plucky band tries to […]
Dear Evergreen: Your Native Students Are the Solution, Not the Problem
Illustration Courtesy of Toby Syrett
‘Booksmart’ Is a New Classic Teen Movie
Cast of “Booksmart” at SXSW Film Festival by DannyB Photos / CC BY 2.0
White Action: White People’s Only Chance at Collective Liberation Is Direct Action
This piece is the third and final part of the series “White Emptiness.” Click here for parts one and two. The universally dehumanizing experience of whiteness, white supremacy and white culture must be interrupted through anti-racist action. As I have discussed in the second edition of this series, we must […]
API Heritage Month: Community Members Making Waves in the World
by Natalie Arneson As May nears its end, the outpouring of social media posts celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, and the members of these communities, covers Instagram and Facebook feeds. Amid the spike in racism and racially motivated violence due to COVID-19, seeing the flood of love […]
“The Lighthouse” Film Review
“Pigeon Point Lighthouse (2016)” by Frank Schulenburg, sourced from Wikimedia Commons, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Miette Deschenes Isolation, as many are learning right now, affects everyone differently. Some people find power, strength or peace in solitude. Others find it lonely, sad or uninspiring. For the characters in […]
Spoiler Warning: “Fire Emblem: Three Houses” is Really Important to Me, Okay?
Photo: Nintendo Switch Online: Pros, Cons, and Unknows by BagoGames sourced from flickr.com is licensed under cc by 2.0 by Alice McIntyre I, like many other people, bought a Nintendo Switch towards the start of this pandemic. I literally haven’t spent more than an hour on any game aside from […]
White Supremacy: The Second Article of a Three-Part Series, titled ‘White Emptiness’
by Luca Fiora Dalton This piece is a follow-up to a previous article titled “White Emptiness.” White supremacy is everywhere in our society. Its stronghold is within we white people — it is my deeply held belief that all white people are racist, including myself. By racism, I don’t just […]