Movie review: “No Country for Old Men”
Cormac McCarthy is the new Herman Melville. The Coen Brothers are the new Howard Hawks. “No Country for Old Men” ...
Arts & Culture
Critics starry-eyed for Basinger’s book
Chair of the Film Studies Department Jeanine Basinger’s “The Star Machine,” examines the insular, heavily-commercial process that made and broke ...
“Smash” mixes politics, love, wit
“We have no other choice—socialism, or SMASH!” This call to revolution was not made during a campus rally, but rather ...
CD review: “Rise Above”
Like many rock musicians, David Longstreth has always dabbled in quieter, gentler genres. His love of classical, primarily the voices ...
Samsara highlights range of South Asian cultural heritage
“Samsara,” the 16th annual South Asian cultural show, filled Crowell Concert Hall last Saturday with poetry, dance, and music. This ...
Gospel choir spreads love, song
As Pastor Marichal Monts led the Ebony Singers this past Monday, he filled Crowell Concert Hall not only with the ...
Alumnae dance across continents
In its last event of the semester, Wesleyan World Wednesdays sponsored “Dancing Across Continents,” a dance performance and discussion with ...
20-year-old Neruda’s poems of love and despair display genius
It’s freezing outside. Our exams are looming over us. Some of us, maybe, are looking for an escape. Pablo Neruda’s ...
Sneak preview: “The Golden Compass”
It is a tired axiom that a film adaptation will never be as good as the novel it is based ...
The Cine-Files
Since this column (at its worst) amounts to a glorified blog, brace yourself for an uncomfortably intimate confession: I have ...