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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...
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Living With What Goes Unsaid In 'Sorry, Baby' -

Most movies tell you exactly how to feel. The music swells, the characters cry at just the right moment, and everything important is clearly labeled for you. Grief is loud. Trauma is dramatic. You are guided step by step toward catharsis. Eva Victor’s debut film Sorry, Baby does the complete opposite, and that is what makes it hit so hard. It is quiet. It sits in uncomfortable spaces. It trusts you to notice what is happening without announcing it.

Watching this film felt personal to me in a wa...
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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...
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Cinema’s New Weird: Exploring The Surreal Turn In Indie Film -

Lately, indie movies have been getting a whole lot weirder, and that’s not a complaint. We’re seeing a shift in filmmaking, especially in the indie space, where more and more directors are ditching the usual storytelling rules. Instead of clear plot lines, predictable endings, and polished heroes, we’re getting movies that feel like dreams or nightmares. They’re filled with bizarre visuals, mythical themes, and storylines that twist and dissolve before your eyes. These aren’t films that hold you...
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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...
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The Rise Of The A24 Aesthetic: What Makes Their Films So Uniquely Irresistible? -

There’s something about seeing that sleek, all-white A24 logo fade in at the start of a movie that immediately sets a mood. It’s hard to explain, but you just know you’re about to watch something different. Not different in a gimmicky way—different in a way that feels more thoughtful, more personal, and honestly, more real. Over the last decade, A24 has gone from a small indie distributor to one of the most recognizable names in modern film; and they did it without superheroes, massive budgets,...
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Movie Plot Holes That We Can't Stop Thinking About -

Have you ever watched a scene in a really good movie and thought, how is that even possible? Well you wouldn’t be the only one. It is very common for movies to get lost in the sauce and miss or add things that do not really make sense in the context of the movie. Here is a list of some of the most popular plot holes in film today.

1.) Home Alone (1990)

Home Alone directed by Chris Columbus is nostalgic for people everywhere. Kevin and his crazy adventures all captivate the childhoods of so man...
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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...
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Broadway comes to Baylor with first performance of ‘American Eclipse’ - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
Broadway stars will join Baylor’s Theatre Department for the first public performance of the musical “American Eclipse,” which tells the story of the boom of American science during the 19th century.
Historical figures Thomas Edison, Lewis Latimer and Maria Mitchell are characters featured in the story. “American Eclipse” follows each of them as they experience the eclipse for the first time, while also sprinkling in the experiences of other people. There is no short...
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Chamber Singers and Bella Voce present music inspired by myth - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
Baylor’s School of Music presented a concert featuring both Bella Voce and the Chamber Singers on Thursday night at Armstrong Browning Library.
The concert started off with the voices of Bella Voce — a selective women’s ensemble — and then transitioned into the Chamber Singers, who are an elite group of some of Baylor’s most talented singers.
The historic atmosphere of Armstrong Browning Library and the elegant echo of singers’ voices set the stage for a hypnotic perf...
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Baylor to showcase poetry and spoken word at first-ever Sic ‘Em Slam - The Baylor Lariat

By Jamie Barrett | Reporter
The first-ever Sic ‘Em Slam is bringing poetry and spoken word to the Barfield Drawing Room from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday. The Baylor Activities Council and the Division of Student Life are hosting the showcase in an effort to create awareness of the diversity of experiences on campus, inviting students, faculty and staff to share their stories through the art form.
According to the Baylor website, the event “promises to deliver a rich evening of diverse student, faculty...
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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...
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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...
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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 —...