A few lingering questions

As I get ready to graduate, I have some lingering questions about Colby.

Hidden in Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s filmic allusions

Hugo is a jarring departure from Scorsese’s filmography—it’s a children’s movie with lots of tenderness and without any blood-soaked murder montages choreographed to The Rolling Stones.

A special last-chance offer

As you may be aware Senior Planning Board Inc. has been hard at work conducting market research on how to better satisfy customers of the Last Chance Dance.

A couple of Colby shout-outs

Something phenomenal is afoot. It’s a personal revelation.

Reinventing the reboot: the requel

Film reboots can stink in the same way personality reboots do. The ones that kill their past just don’t work.

The many manifestations of Don Draper

While many people may associate the show with Don Draper and his infidelity—or basically the rampant bad behavior of the men on the show—it’s crucial that Mad Men is a show that examines honestly and painfully the root causes of this particular strain of all-American masculine ugliness.

Films of the near future

So, we used the Delorean to track down Bill and Ted, who let us borrow their phone booth. We dialed in the digits of some highly anticipated films and decided to share some of what we saw.

Books and films: The Rum Diary, decoded

The Rum Diary, directed by Bruce Robinson and starring the uncanny Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Johnny Depp, failed to bring the unique qualities of the book to the silver screen.

Wonder Woodsmen

My lost novel of immeasurable genius

Once, in Mrs. Bowden’s fourth grade class, huddled beneath a desk during reading hour— endlessly solitary, but not uncomfortable—I conceived an idea for a novel of immeasurable genius.

Woody Allen's filmic roots

Woody Allen would call himself the most derivative, referential director working today. So, it should be no problem discerning what may have led him to make Midnight in Paris.

The subtleties of Super 8

Whether or not you respond to their movies, Spielberg and Abrams are sentimental and optimistic filmmakers: their enthusiasm for their work shines through the best of their films.

This week in queer cinema

The Kids Are All Right comes from a tradition of films that calls into question – either explicitly or implicitly – the strict definitions of sexual attraction and gender that dominate conventional thinking.

Loose Canon: True Grit it and quit it

The Coen Brothers usually make films with their own flavor, and sprinkle in the spice of director’s long past. With True Grit, it is the opposite; they have made a film using the flavors of the director’s long past, with mere hints of their own spice.

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger”

Our goal is to give the reader reference points for his or her favorite movies, in order to help spark an interest in film history. We will discuss the antecedents of a popular movie in reverse chronological order–working backwards through film history. This week, we will focus on Inception.

Desert, spaceship, alternate universe

We foolishly choose to accept the stagnation of a culture that thanklessly reuses the past.