“The Cobbler” Starts and Finishes on the Wrong Foot
There are movies that are bad that just miss the mark; there are movies that are bad because they are ...
Arts & Culture
“Mad Men” Now Looks to the Past, More Than Usual
“I’m supposed to tell you you missed your flight,” Rachel Menken (Maggie Siff) tells Don Draper (the one and only ...
“It Follows” Taps Into Genre Tropes and Contemporary Fears to Devastating Effect
“It Follows,” the new horror film directed by David Robert Mitchell, opens on a quiet suburban street. It’s a rare ...
John Darnielle Extends The Mountain Goats’ Musical Winning Streak with Beat the Champ
When critics talk about the Mountain Goats, they usually cite those albums on which John Darnielle’s neo-folk outfit sounds most ...
To Pimp a Butterfly Continues Lamar’s Winning Streak
The history of black music in America is a story of marginalization. Record labels ignore it, the radio refuses to ...
“Doubt” Brings the Brimstone, But Could Use More Fire
Art thrives on ambiguity. When a piece of work meets its witness halfway, filled with haze and absent of straightforward ...
“Furious 7” Leaves Logic and Boredom in its Tail Lights
It begins with the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films of the 1930s. These musicals revolved around spectacle. There are ...
Senior Art Theses Make Zilkha Into a Canvas for Tough Topics
If I could design my own tour of Wesleyan for prospective students, I would begin with the Zilkha Gallery. Currently ...
Disney’s “Cinderella” Remake Struggles to Justify its Existence
Many years ago I had a small collection of Disney animated films on VHS lined up next to each other ...
The Rooks Return to Play Raucous Alpha Delt Concert
It was as if they had never left. When The Rooks—an indie soul/R&B collective that formed at Wesleyan two years ...