Jamie Barrett

mxdwn Movies • 2nd April 2026

She Was Never The Side Character: 'The Bride!' Takes Center Stage -

I walked into The Bride! expecting to admire it from a distance. You know the feeling. A film gets hyped, it becomes discourse before it even becomes experience, and suddenly you’re bracing yourself to be underwhelmed just to protect your own taste. But somewhere between the first close-up and the final scene, I realized I wasn’t watching this film from a distance at all. I was inside it. And more importantly, I was inside her.

For a character who has existed for nearly a century as a visual sh...

mxdwn Movies • 3rd March 2026

Catherine O’Hara: The Art Of The Scene-Stealing Supporting Role -

There are actors who lead movies, and then there are actors who define them. Catherine O’Hara has built an entire film career on doing the latter. And after her win last night at the Actor Awards, it feels like the industry is finally celebrating what audiences have known for decades. As Seth Rogen said about her last night, “Something that I’ve just been marveling at over the last few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious while never ever minimizing her own talents a...

mxdwn Movies • 5th December 2025

MOVIE REVIEW: Through The Monster’s Eyes: Empathy, Gothic Horror, And Unexpected Maternal Instincts -

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is like stepping into a story you thought you knew and suddenly realizing it’s been flipped on its head. Unlike most adaptations that keep Victor Frankenstein in the spotlight, del Toro gives the Monster the narrative’s emotional core. Jacob Elordi owns that space with a quiet intensity. From the moment he opens his eyes, you are invited to see the world through his perspective. He is not just a stitched-together giant. He is curious, vulnerable, and learning to...

mxdwn Movies • 18th July 2025

Female Rage On Screen: The Untold Stories Of Women’s Fury -

In movies, male anger is practically a genre of its own. From war heroes to vigilantes to the classic guy-who-snaps, male rage is often portrayed as righteous or at least understandable. It fuels entire franchises and drives character arcs where destruction is excused as emotional depth. Meanwhile, women’s anger is often repressed, ridiculed, or framed as madness. When women lash out in film, they’re more likely to be seen as unstable or villainous rather than complex and justified. But a wave o...

The Baylor Lariat - The official student news sour • 19th April 2024

Quintet recital brings awareness to migrant stories - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
A three-day Baylor Symposium — Migration and Food Needs: Latin American and U.S. Perspectives — came to an end Thursday night with a rhythmic quintet recital featuring guest performer Mariachi Oso.
The recital was held in Roxy Grove Hall and helped open the minds of those in attendance to the stories behind migration in not just the United States but also other places in Latin America.
Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, a jazz studies lecturer and a member of the quintet, sa...

The Baylor Lariat - The official student news sour • 23rd February 2024

Turning the tide: Baylor Theatre presents all-female cast in ‘Men on Boats’ - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
Baylor Theatre’s first play of the semester may be called “Men on Boats,” but you won’t find any men on stage.
The production, which opened Tuesday night in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, is a comedic telling of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition. It follows his men as they navigate the Colorado River and face various dangers.
With an all-female cast playing historical men, it did not take much for the audience to erupt with laughter. From saviors without pa...

The Baylor Lariat - The official student news sour • 20th February 2024

Good grief: Student musician turns mourning, nature into music - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
Vail, Colo., junior Langley Cerovich is the Music Industry Club’s newest signed artist, but he has been surrounded by music his whole life.
In high school, Cerovich participated in opera choir and musical theater, and around 2020 and 2021, he discovered his love for the guitar and began writing songs. This past year, however, is when he finally began to “seriously” start writing his own music.
“My relationship with music as far as writing is pretty recent, but I’ve a...

The Baylor Lariat - The official student news sour • 2nd February 2024

First-ever Spanish opera at Baylor has historic opening night - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
“Luisa Fernanda,” Baylor Opera Theatre’s first Spanish production, opened Thursday night at the Jones Theatre in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. The opera tells the emotional story of a woman stuck in a love triangle with two men during the Spanish Revolution of 1868.
The majority of the performance was sung in Spanish, while English translations were displayed above the stage. Denton graduate student Kate Bishop — one of the actresses playing the title role —...