8-Bit Christmas

“The year was 1987, or was it ’88?” Grownup Jake Doyle (Neil Patrick Harris) begins, when all he wanted for Christmas was a Nintendo. And when I say Nintendo, I’m not talking about your everyday DS Lite. We’re going old school, y’all. “Nintendo,” Doyle narrates to his...

Senior Show Spotlight

Two more of Messiah’s seniors take the stage this weekend to present their work in the Fall Senior Series. This weekend’s series feature the original works of Theater and Dance major Liberty Dolence and Dance major Mackenzie Williams. Here is a preview of what...

White Christmas Movie Review

White Christmas (1954): a vibrant, charming, and heart-warming Christmas classic. With old-timey vocals, dazzling dance numbers, and mounds of snow in the mountains of Vermont, what’s not to love? The only way to watch the movie, in a true corny-Christmas fashion, is...

Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?

Known as the “film connoisseur” of my family, it is rare that I go a holiday season without being asked for my take on the age-old question; whether the 1988 cult classic Die Hard is a Christmas movie. For me, the answer is simple, Die Hard is in fact a Christmas...