andRomance and Cigarettes,Across the UniverseCommodification is the name of the game in Julie Taymor's square and soggy cinematic adaptation of the Beatles'...
The line between what is modern and what is ancient blurs, and thus, humor is injected into scenes that would otherwise be stiff and lifeless.,Director...
Everyone loves to look at penises. Why this is so is a fair question, but it remains a fact that the penis has a certain allure to it-and there are certainly...
"What really inspires me is [Vonnegut's] writing style and his narratives in general," said lead singer and guitarist Mike Epstein in a phone interview...
Jason Knight stands in front of 10 underclassmen in a studio on the third floor of the Colonial Theatre on a Sunday evening in mid-February. The attentive...
Will Ferrell is a funny guy. So is Will Arnett, his frequent co-star. But their latest collaboration, Semi-Pro, is comical only because it makes the cast...
Terri Ciccone:Love"Best Friend," Queen For a straightforward and G-rated love song to cuddle to, no one says it better than Freddy Mercury: "You're the...
Every Saturday morning, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s, living rooms were occupied by a stuttering pig, a maniac Martian named Marvin, a Tasmanian...
Last season, the mental homework necessary to understand each episode frustrated fans.,Polar bears in the past (well, not anymore), ABC's mysterious island-based...
Body-bending leaps, twists and turns moved in unison to an equally fluid variety of music during the dry rehearsal for Emerson's Experimental Dance. In...
Indecision on Valentine's Day is not a new phenomenon. The pressure to come up with the perfect Valentine's Day date is sometimes too much for the boyfriend...
John F. Kennedy was a doughnut. Granted, not really but he did have the German populace in a state of confusion when he gave a speech at the Berlin Wall...
Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief, Federico Fellini's La Strada, Luis Buntilde;uel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,...
Best PictureNominees:-Atonement-Juno-Michael Clayton-No Country for Old Men-There Will Be BloodWill Win:No Country for Old MenShould Win: No Country for...
With a sound reminiscent of Phish, Stevie Wonder and Tim McGraw, Big Leg Emma aspires to be the next great jam band, mashing together genres in order to...
This semester Emerson Stage offers a variety of shows to please any type of theatregoer's tastes; from an eclectic dance show to a comical detective-mystery...
Before Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, before even Taxi Driver and The Wild Bunch, there was Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, a film whose violence and...
Nicholson, winner of the History Channel's "Digging for the Truth" Collegiate Challenge, won by designing a commercial he described as being "like a cheesy...
We at The Beacon respect the Academy and their nominations-but, of course, we don't quite see things the same way. In the bizarre event that we broke into...
With "Lost," you never know when a character is going to be washed ashore or ride in on the back of a polar bear. In her article last week, Beacon news...
