Blog Movie Review: Black Bag & Marital Espionage LRR, April 8, 2025May 7, 2025 Written by: Sky Cummings As someone who spent much of her formative years glued to the James Bond franchise, I thought I had the spy thriller category figured out. Enter Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag (2025), a film of only ninety-three minutes that quickly made me realize the untapped potential of… Continue Reading
Blog The British Bard and Bollywood LRR, February 23, 2023February 8, 2025 Poetry editor Aayushi Agarwal shares her encounters with Shakespeare through Hindi film adaptations, begging the question: how can movies be used as a tool of cultural empowerment and reclamation? Continue Reading
Blog Interview: Reopening Of Madison Cinema LRR, March 24, 2022February 8, 2025 Michaela Flaherty shows us what it takes to run an independent Movie Theatre in her interview with Lizzy O’Gara the general manager of Madison Cinemas… Continue Reading
Blog The Betrayal Of Bo Burnham: Casting “Good Guys” As “Bad Guys” LRR, March 22, 2022February 8, 2025 Michaela Flaherty explores how subverting typecasting can create a dialogue that complicates our gendered expectations of the do-good, predictable hero… Continue Reading
Blog Putting Shakespeare in the Schoolyard: Celebrating movie adaptations LRR, February 3, 2020February 8, 2025 When reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it may be difficult to understand why it’s such an insult that Mr. Darcy refuses to dance with Elizabeth. Or it may not seem like a big deal for Lydia to run off with a soldier, or it may be confusing when… Continue Reading
Want to Write? Get Talking. By Benjamin Schultz LRR, February 21, 2017February 8, 2025 Like most people, I can never pass up a good story. I’m sure that you are no different. Stories have always been able to captivate the human psyche– whether spoken, written, or edited together. Even that Super Bowl commercial that made you laugh is telling a story (albeit one 30… Continue Reading
Remembering Sidney Sheldon by Laura Ruttan LRR, February 11, 2016February 8, 2025 “Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.” — Sidney Sheldon Sidney Sheldon was a famous successful American playwright, screenwriter, and best selling… Continue Reading
When Movie Adaptations Fail LRR, March 23, 2015February 8, 2025 The announcement of a movie adaptation of a favorite book is always an exciting one. It is the wonderful convergence of my love of reading and my firm standing as a movie geek. However, movie adaptations always come with risk: many times filmmakers get it right, but for every hit… Continue Reading
The Adaptation LRR, May 9, 2014February 8, 2025 Over the years, film and television adaptations of novels have become more and more common in our media. For us book lovers, that can be our greatest wish fulfilled or our greatest disappointment. Sometimes the adaptation can be reflective of the novel with love or another entity entirely. These are… Continue Reading
Top Ten Screenplays LRR, April 15, 2014February 8, 2025 April 15, 2014: Yet another rainy (almost monsoon-like) day in Storrs, Connecticut, home of our beloved Long River and the UConn Huskies. The weather outside is so stiflingly crappy, it seems like the perfect day to make yourself a cup of tea (Nyanka certainly recommends it, here’s why), curl up… Continue Reading