Blog The Appeal of La La Land LRR, April 21, 2026April 20, 2026 Written by: Nabeeha Nafey There is something to be said about how good art can continue to surprise you again and again. Of course, this is a personal experience — what constitutes “good art” obviously varies between you and I. But one film, or rather cinematic experience, that many people… Continue Reading
Blog A Nontraditional Take on Horror: Midsommar Review LRR, April 5, 2026April 4, 2026 Written by: Tori Grooms This is the second Ari Aster film I’ve watched, and part of me wonders why I opted to watch Midsommar in the first place. Hereditary left me mentally disturbed by repulsive imagery, and I spent the last twenty minutes of the film watching with my eyes… Continue Reading
Blog Kiki’s Delivery Service: Why Do We Create Art? LRR, March 22, 2026March 22, 2026 Written by: Sofia Tas-Castro The first time I watched this film was last year when I was studying abroad in Tokyo, Japan. At the time, I hadn’t seen any of the Studio Ghibli Films (shocker, I know) before I arrived, but through the classes I was taking finally got exposed… Continue Reading
Blog Acceptance and Growing Up: A Review of The Boy and the Heron LRR, February 13, 2026February 11, 2026 Written by: Kaitlin Anderson Despite being a diehard fan of Ghibli movies, I often struggle to describe how they make me feel. Many of them have required multiple watch-throughs just to take everything in. It’s easy to get swept away by the animation and music while losing track of the… Continue Reading
Blog The Beautiful Contradiction of Adaptation LRR, March 7, 2023February 8, 2025 Poetry panelist and Interviews editor Kelley Gifford gives us some wonderful insight on book-to-film adaptations! 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 Was “Shrek”s Lord Farquaad based on Shakespeare’s “Richard III?” LRR, February 10, 2020February 8, 2025 (If you’ve never seen Shrek (2001) or read Shakespeare’s play Richard III, let me warn you: Spoilers lie ahead! If you have seen Shrek, welcome to my conspiracy theory.) This theory started when I was taking an Introduction to Shakespeare course last year, and one of the assignments was to… Continue Reading
PATERSON: The Blue-Collar Poet and Writing with a ‘Day Job’ By: Nicholas DiBenedetto LRR, April 5, 2017February 8, 2025 Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is Paterson in ways that I never realized something could be Paterson. The film’s star, Adam Driver, plays a bus driver and poet named Paterson, who lives in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, and whose favorite poet is William Carlos Williams (whose epic poem Paterson, is… 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
*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—* LRR, February 26, 2014February 8, 2025 Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread…. Continue Reading