Can an English major still fall in love with science? Yes. This column shows how my personal journey as a student and writer illustrates the inherent connection between the arts and sciences.
Movies, Arts, Featured Column, Column
It’s Time For Show and Tell, Kids
Movies today often run into the problem of telling the audience everything instead of showing it to them. Hollywood needs to trust the audience.
Arts, Column
A Film Fan’s Farewell
Since the earliest days of Hollywood’s glitzy golden age, the industry has been teeming with fantastic and memorable film endings. I like the ones that offer us a brief glimpse into a bright future.
Arts, Featured Column, Column
A Fond, Fuller Farewell
And with all this, I bid a fond adieu to The Heights and all those I’ve worked with to promote and review art on campus. It’s been a blast.
Column, Arts, Movies
The Importance of Impressions
Impressions and accents are some of the greatest forms of flattery, as they seek to emulate the crux of a person. To be able to do a good impression of someone is to understand them more fully.
Arts, Column
John Hinde’s Sugarcoated Reality
If a scene looked better with pink flowers, Hinde would see to it that a few brightly colored branches from a few miles away were cut down and staged exactly where he deemed necessary.
Arts, Column
Lost in ‘La La Land’
As the year in film wraps up, moviegoers still have a mesmerizing musical waiting for them in the near future.
Television, Column, Arts
Limit Emotional Affect: Analysis of ‘Westworld’
‘Westworld’ asks important and complex questions. Let us hope that, in all of its complexity, it does not get lost along the way.
Column, Arts, Featured Column
Asking for a Miracle and Getting It
Having motivations as to why we are feeling the way we are is often times more troubling than the feelings themselves.
Featured Column, Column, Arts
The Future of Violence in Entertainment
As special effects and virtual reality technology evolves over time, violence has become more prevalent and realistic in TV, movies, and video games. What does this say about how future generations will look at violence in the entertainment they take in?
