2008 Woodie Awards
A person can accomplish a lot in a minute. Although society-at-large might consider the time to be fleeting, the founders of Lumen Eclipse, an art gallery in Harvard Square that focuses entirely on the art of film, have a different point of view. The gallery put on its first annual One-Minute Film Festival, named Le: 60, that screened on Palmer Street in Cambridge Saturday. (0) comments
Night owls on campus looking for more than a movie night on a residence hall floor can head to the Coolidge Corner Theatre, which recently restarted its midnight movie showings. The midnight shows at the theatre, located on Harvard Street in Brookline, were on hiatus until the film "Dead Alive" was shown Sept. (0) comments
Despite repeated attempts to draw some laughs from the crowd, it seemed Tina Kim couldn't engage about 40 audience members who came to see her stand-up performance in afterHOURS Friday night. Kim, who was brought to campus by the Asian Student Union, attributed the crowd members' lack of enthusiasm to their Asian upbringing. (0) comments
The current TV season is now a few weeks old, and one thing is true for the major networks: ratings are down across the board, according to Tvbythenumbers.com, which pulls information from networks and Nielsen ratings. The explanation for the drop in viewers could be the use of Digital Video Recorders (DVR), illegal streaming, online viewing or perhaps it's just the caliber of shows on TV today or the public might still be hung up on programs that are off the air. (0) comments
Bill Maher's documentary, "Religulous," opens with a scene of him standing on top of a pile of stones in Megiddo, Israel, where Christians say the second coming of Christ will occur. Except Maher's teachings fail to be as far-reaching as Jesus'. Directed by Larry Charles, the man who brought us "Borat," the documentary seeks to simultaneously inform and entertain, much in the same way "Borat" did (yes, there were lessons to be learned from that movie). (0) comments