Hidden Bridge – Amid the Noise and Haste

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” – Max Ehrmann, Desiderata To go placidly amid the noise and haste – this is the chief end of a college student, isn’t it? To find pockets of peace in the...

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...

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...
Promising Young Woman Movie Review

Promising Young Woman Movie Review

As the Oscar euphoria has been dying down since the award show premiered on April 25, I thought it would be a good idea to review some of the movies that were nominated for Best Picture. The next film on the list is Promising Young Woman.   Promising Young Woman stars...