Barbie & Oppenheimer: The Double-Feature of the Summer Raises Some Difficult Questions
By Vincent Latigue Photos: Left: Oppenheimer (dir. Christopher Walken) theatrical release poster, credit Universal Pictures Right: Barbie...
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Aliena Abernathy
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bottoms
By Aliena Abernathy Photo: Still from Bottoms, dir. Emma Seligman Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bottoms, which had a wide release on...
Abigail Wetteroff
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Is “Elevated” the Future of Movie Theaters?
By Abigail Wetteroff Cynics may say that movie theaters are on the outs, a passé relic from the era where one had to bear the...
Abigail Wetteroff
Whatever Happened to the Independent Theaters? A Look into the St. Louis Film Scene
By Abigail Wetteroff The Covid-19 era has not been kind to small businesses, the entertainment industry, or our social lives. That...
The Current UMSL
Don't Worry Darling
By: Cat Hill By this point, everyone has heard of Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller, Don’t Worry Darling. Leading up to its release...
The Current UMSL
Skinamarink: Be Sure to Watch in Complete Darkness
By Bridget Muise Skinamarink was written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball. The film runs one hour and forty minutes and tells an eerie...
Stephanie Kim
Mining for Memories at the Bonne Terre Mine
By Stephanie Kim, Editor-in-Chief Looking for a unique adventure that is sure to keep you cool this summer? An adventure that won’t make...
Charles T. White
The Future of the Nintendo Switch is Looking Bleak...and That's a Good Thing!
Oh, what a joyous five years it has been with the Nintendo Switch. Ever since it was first teased back in 2016 under the codename NX, to...
Charles T. White
Scream 5 The Requel
If you were to ask me what movie would be coming out for January of 2022: I could have given you my wishlist or hypothesis of movies....
Charles T. White
Bluefire: When Hollow Knight Met Zelda
Have you ever felt like you just don’t have a platformer in your life? You’ve already beaten Mario Odyssey, Ratchet and Clank, and...
The Current Staff
Oscars recap
By Tyler Smith Contributing Writer The 2021 Oscars were another night in the gold plated, star studded prestige filled span of time known...
Hailey Barnes
'New Girl' TV Show Review
by Hailey Barnes, Staff-Writer There are many different shows and movies out there that we all enjoy. Some might enjoy comedy, horror,...
Rebecca Ferman
‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ Review
by Rebecca Ferman, Staff-Writer It’s one thing to go on a road trip with your dysfunctional family, but it’s a whole new ballpark to do...
Rebecca Ferman
Wholesome Channels on YouTube for the End the Semester
by Rebecca Ferman, Staff-Writer As the spring semester comes to a close, it’s good to take some time to relax and unwind from all the...
Tyler Smith
Conspiracy: Book Review
by Tyler Smith, Staff-Writer Conspiracy is a book about how a gossip blog, a retired wrestler and a reclusive billionaire all cross...
Rebecca Ferman
‘Clone High’: An Animated Cult Classic
by Rebecca Ferman, Staff-Writer “Way, way back in the 1980’s, secret government employees dug up famous guys and ladies and made amusing...
Gary Lucas
Mars Attacks! 25 Years Later
by Gary Lucas Mars Attacks! is a Tim Burton film that was released in 1996. The budget is estimated to be around $70 million....
Rebecca Ferman
Scream 25th Anniversary Retrospective
By Rebecca Ferman, Contributing Writer WARNING: this may contain slight spoilers for the Scream film and franchise. The author has...
Tyler Smith
Bad Blood Book Review
by Tyler Smith Bad Blood is a 2018 book written by John Carreyrou about Theranos, Silicon Valley’s prized startup turned devastating scam...
Taylor Meyer
Storm of Progress: German Expressionism at the St. Louis Art Museum
In the Beginning The Germans have not always been the Germans. In fact, the modern state of Germany was not established until 1871, and...
Tori Thoele
Hillbilly Elegy Review
by Tori Thoele According to the National Institutes of Health, “10 percent of US adults have drug use disorder at some point in their...
Caroline Groff
Returning to George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” 50 Years Later
Many music historians and fanatics philosophize about what would’ve happened if the Beatles never broke up. Without that Fab Four...
Caroline Groff
Off Broadway Kicks Off Trivia Night Series
by Caroline Groff Going out has become a struggle, if not an entirely nonexistent activity in the year of 2020. For many people, there...
James Reid
Queen's Gambit: Netflix Review
by James Reid Queen's Gambit is one of those shows that looks drab on paper. It's a period drama about a chess player set against the...
Tori Thoele
Hubie Halloween: More like Hot Mess Express
by Tori Thoele When most people think of classic Halloween movies they either think cute and fun or a slasher movie to put them in the...
Stephanie Kim
Rock and Roll’s King: Looking Back at Chuck Berry
The epitome, king, and father of rock ‘n’ roll. The greatest guitarist, performer, and singer-songwriter of all time. Chuck Berry has...
Caroline Groff
Livestreams Aren’t Enough to Fill the Void
Every industry has brought their own solutions to continue their practices during the pandemic, but almost all of them just don’t seem to...
Taylor Meyer
The Lot: Helping Local Music Groups Around St. Louis
You’re standing in the crowd, in front of the stage, at a concert. The music is so loud, but it’s your favorite song, the one that made...
James Reid
The New Modern Horror
By James Reid, contributing writer Horror is in sort of a modern Renaissance. These new movies have created a fun and more accessible...
Adam Radick
The Beat Goes On: UMSL’s Music Department Begins In-Person Classes
Nothing about our day-to-day lives is the same as it was just a year ago. While most of us have been inconvenienced, however, we have...
James Reid
The Theatric Experience During Covid
by James Reid, contributing writer With Covid passing 200,000 deaths in America, there still seems to be this passionate outcry about how...
Adam Radick
When is UMSL Radio Coming Back?
If you are a regular listener to UMSL’s student radio station, The U, or a regular consumer of the content created at UMSL’s television...
Caroline Groff
The Business of Keeping Venues Afloat
For almost everyone in the business of live music, venues dealing with a pandemic are discussed like an on-again, off-again relationship....
Jordan Francis
Enola Holmes, the Unexpected Holmes Sibling.
“Perhaps it’s the world that needs changing,” - Enola Holmes. Who is Enola Holmes? Upon seeing the trailer for the new Netflix film, I...
Wesley Baucom
UMSL's Music Powers Through Pandemic
These past few weeks have been hard on students. The deadlines, the intense workload, and then there’s getting used to virtual learning....
Caroline Groff
Myths and Mixed Media in Gallery 210’s Newest Exhibition
The opening of Gallery 210’s fall season came in with less of a bang and more of a gentle click of a keyboard. The launch of the latest...
Tori Thoele
Exploring Solitude in Taylor Swift’s “Folklore”
Summer spent in a pandemic induced isolation warrants creatives to unleash some of their best work, and Taylor Swift is no exception....
James Reid
Outrage and a Broadway Musical
A still of Christopher Jackson (George Washington) and Daveed Diggs (Thomas Jefferson) in a Original Broadway performance of Hamilton...
James Reid
A Look At Modern Foreign Cinema Streaming Now
Noemie Merlant and Adele Haenel in a still from Portrait of a Lady on Fire Foreign Cinema is slept on in America. We export all these...
James Reid
A Personal and Professional Look At The Film Industry's Greatest Franchises
Genre and franchise art has been a mainstay of popular culture since as far back as Charlie Chaplin made a brand out being a lovable and...
James Reid
The Best Sites For That New Film Fan
An example of Metacritic's interface. The film ended up dropping down below 60 A lot of people in lock-down, quarantine, shutdown, or...
James Reid
HBO Max: The New Streaming For Those Shutdown Blues
With the dawning of streaming, cable and network stations have decided to get into the game. CBS has their All Access application where...
James Reid
The Most Important Films To Visit During These Trying Times
As I sat at home watching all the drama unfolding in the world around us I decided to take time to think of movies you might watch during...
James Reid
A Closer Look at those Tiny, Tiny Names: Hollywood Behind the Scenes
When we go to the movies we normally skip out after the credits start rolling. If you have ever used the website International Movie...
Tori Thoele
These "The Voice" hopefuls never got to primetime, but the show was still "a helping hand"
All you can see from where you're standing on stage are four large red chairs. Lights dot down the middle of the platform, illuminating...
Jacqueline Simon
Pandemic Can't Stop UMSL LitMag
“The LitMag 2020 Edition is Not Merely the Medium of Expression, It Yields Our Obligation to Legacy” Camris Owens, Editor in Chief The...
Caroline Groff
“The Lodge” Brings Horror for the Whole Family
A trip to a snowy cabin in the middle of nowhere with a woman and her soon to be stepchildren seems to be tense enough. Add in a cult...
Steven Duong
Oscars Bongslide Shocks the World
Earlier this month the Oscars ended in a landslide, more specifically a “Bongslide,” led by Bong Joon Ho winning four awards, one being...
Jacqueline Simon
Journalist Gayle King on defense over Kobe Bryant interview
CBS Journalist Gayle King recently set the internet on fire, and not in a good way, when promo clips of an interview that she conducted...
Beth Binkley
My Honest Review of Cats
When Cats came into theaters on Dec. 20, 2019, it seemed as though everyone and their mother had something bad to say about it, as though...
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