For our last movie article of the semester, we thought it was only fitting to assemble a complete ranking of the best movies we have both seen in 2016.
Read more“Fantastic Beasts” Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Five years removed from the final Harry Potter installment, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks a return to the wizarding world.
Read more"Arrival" is Otherworldly
And it's also sure to generate serious Oscar buzz.
Read moreWhy 'Columbinus' was Incredibly Moving
Going in, I was skeptical about the team making adequate use of the space, since some past shows have struggled with staging in Studio A. These worries were proved wrong, as the show was brilliantly designed.
Read moreReview: Doctor Strange
Just because summer is over does not mean the blockbusters have stopped. It has only been a whopping five months since Captain America: Civil War was released, but to make sure we did not forget about the superhero universe in that timespan, Marvel threw us another movie in the form of Doctor Strange.
Read moreThe Blackbox Theater Presents: Orphan Sea
The Skidmore College Department of Theater is pleased to announce the
premiere of a multilingual version of The Orphan Sea by Caridad Svich, 2012 Lifetime
Achievement OBIE award winner.
Show Me the Shoah
Who Will Carry the Word, written by Charlotte Delbo, is based on the stories of 23 female French Nationalists who were imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkinau during WWII.
Read moreDon't Miss "The Accountant"
Ben Affleck's never been better.
Read moreThe Truth About Scary Movies
Halloween season is starting to roll around again. Everyone knows we are in for the season of brisk weather, oversized candy bags, skimpy costumes, and scary movies. There is just one problem: scary movies are just not good anymore.
Read moreEverything You Need to Know About the MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute
This upcoming summer, the John B. Moore documentary studies collaborative (MDOCS) will be sponsoring its annual session of the Storyteller’s Institute.
Read moreSkidmore Theater Presents: Who Will Carry the World
The Skidmore College Department of Theater is pleased to announce its Fall 2016 Mainstage production, Who Will Carry The Word.
Read moreQ & A with the Creator behind the Saratoga Film Festival
Saturday September 17th Nightmare Code premiered at Bow Tie cinemas in downtown Saratoga Springs. This documentary was one of many that premiered throughout the day as part of The Saratoga International Film Festival.
Read moreHEAD SPACE: An Interview with Curator Hannah Kolb ’16
An interview with Hannah Kolb '16, who put together Head Space: An Exhibition on Mental Health, a recent Case Gallery exhibit- a striking visual and emotional experience.
Read moreHEAD SPACE: An Exhibition on Mental Health
“Head Space” is the senior project of Hannah Kolb ’16, who is studying English and sociology. She has spent the past semester seeking and collecting submissions from Skidmore alumni and current students to bring together a range of artworks on mental illness, specifically anxiety and depression.
Read moreSkidmore Theater Presents: The American Premiere Production of HECUBA
Celebrated Irish playwright Marina Carr’s HECUBA will see its American premiere at Skidmore College, having been produced only once before at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Off-Broadway director and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow Ian Belton returns to his alma mater to direct the adaptation.
Read moreReel Talk: Batman v Superman: Do Critics’ Reviews Matter?
Ever since the massive success of last weekend’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I have seen countless articles online of critics who are baffled at the movie’s box office haul.
Read moreHECUBA
HECUBA, the Skidmore Theater Company’s mainstage production, opens this Friday April 8th.
Read moreSkidmore to welcome U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera March 23
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will give a public reading at Skidmore College on Wednesday, March 23. Free and open to the public, the event will begin at 7 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
Read moreThe Palace Theater Announce: Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell is a modern icon who transcends genre, he was a chief architect of the 90s grunge movement and remains one of the most iconic rock voices of all time
Read moreReel Talk: Spring Film Preview
This spring, aside from the general blockbusters, there seem to be some promising films coming, and I’ve ranked a few of them below. Take a look and see if anything looks interesting.
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