When asked about the artistic merit of his new documentary film “Holding Up the Sky” (2025), Emerson College associated faculty member and documentary...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the American Revolution was born in Boston. Twenty-three years ago — and of equal importance — Jeremiah Poope ‘98...

African music has inspired an exhaustive list of genres that span continents, including some of the most popular, like jazz, blues, rock and roll, hip...

Jonathan Kirkpatrick set the bar high when he submitted his senior capstone BFA pitch a year ago: staging a play with a live audience as a film. This past...

Throughout my three-and-a-half semesters in Boston, I have had the great glee of attending 17 concerts — some for pleasure, some for business (this newspaper)....

Picture this: You get invited to a dinner party and you don’t quite know who invited you, but you show up anyway. Upon arrival, you discover that the...

A Flemish tapestry from the late 16th to early 17th century towers overhead, its intricate threads forming a carefully ordered garden that stretches more...

Austin, Texas — It’s just past 11:30 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema South Lamar, a time of night when the last bus downtown is too timid to come...

Annalisa Hansford ’25 fills their poetry with queer loss, longing and absolution, and their most recent publication is no exception. “Banana Pancakes,”...

Time knows no boundaries in film. A movie can span 20 years or a whole plot can take place in a day. In the case of the “Ready or Not” franchise, the...

Two summers ago, my good friend Lucy and I bought tickets to see Modest Mouse and the Pixies’ co-headline tour. While we knew both bands would make an...

About a 10-minute walk from Emerson College’s campus, you will find two of Boston's best known historic sites: the Old State House and the Old South...

Bright floodlights dimmed, VHS-style recordings of abstract memories flooded the back walls of the set, and the room filled with sounds of humming crickets...

While Hollywood has changed over the years, for over three decades, the Oscars have had one constant: Rob Paine ‘92. Starting in 1995 as a production...

Spoilers ahead for the “Twin Peaks” franchise. The world first met FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, played by the charmingly eccentric Kyle MacLachlan,...

From the moment they heard the opening notes of the musical “Hadestown,” Eurydice, its leading lady, instantly became one of Hawa Kamara’s ‘23...

Overpriced popcorn and drinks in hand, elderly couples with glasses and varying shades of gray hair filed into Emerson College’s Colonial Theatre, eager...

Families can be messy. They’re layered with blurred boundaries, expectations, and generational trauma. Regardless of one’s history, familial experiences...

During the release of “Stranger Things” (2016–2025) season five, fans noticed a distinct lack of atmosphere in the show’s cinematography, particularly...