As September begins, the first rumblings of awards season begin to appear, and some of the year’s most intriguing films begin to enter the public eye through film festivals. With the Telluride Film Festival...
For any movie to truly work, many elements have to come together to create the atmosphere and pace that the movie requires. When the right director, the right writer, and the right cast come together,...
In January 2014, brought together by a mutual friend, Nashville musicians Kate Lee and Forrest O’Connor began making music together. Calling their collaboration Wisewater, Lee and O’Connor have since...
In late July, the Toronto Film Festival became the first major organization to release its film selection to the public. With films from directors like Tom Hooper (“The Danish Girl”), Michael Moore...
As the summer draws to a close, the film year enters into the early stages of prestige season, where many of the year’s awards contenders begin to ever so slowly trickle into theaters everywhere. In...
On a sunny Tuesday in June, my younger sister and I went to the movies together for the first time in quite a while. At the time, “Jurassic World” was in the beginning of what became its third straight...
On the night of June 22, 2015, the film industry lost a true legend when composer James Horner died in a plane crash outside of Santa Barbara, California. As the news broke, tributes came flowing in from...
Dance Collection, a one-night, one-performance event, showcases a range of dances and choreographers. The UATD show lets student choreographers bring their work into the limelight alongside the work...
In the past few years, a trend has begun to take hold in the movie marketplace: the same-day, video-on-demand release. In this scenario, a film is released on both digital on-demand platforms and in theaters...
The Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi in 2012 and the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 are among the most notable events...
With South by Southwest now another year older and the 2015 film year still in its infancy, the month of April is the start of the journey toward blockbuster season, which will kick off with “Avengers:...
With the summer juggernauts still months away, there are plenty of classic options to consider on streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and iTunes to fit any genre viewers may want to watch. These films...
William Shakespeare’s famous play “Hamlet” will come to life at The University of Alabama campus on Sunday as the American Shakespeare Center’s “Method in the Madness” tour will perform the...
It’s only a matter of days before the credits roll and the 2014 film year officially comes to a close. The Oscars hit the airwaves Sunday, Feb. 22, and this year’s race has seen ambitious filmmaking,...
In the spring of 2012, a group of University of Alabama students returned from a trip to the Sundance Film Festival with a mission. Inspired by Sundance’s atmosphere, wheels began to turn. Three months...
While 2015 has been poised as the year of the mega-blockbuster – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Ant-Man,” “The Fantastic Four” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” to name a few – the...
NASA will come to the Tuscaloosa airwaves Friday when “Houndstooth and Hardhats” on WVUA-FM hosts a two-hour special to commemorate NASA’s memorial week.Hosted by Matthew Culver, a freshman majoring...
While the Oscars are a much-anticipated event, for some fans, they have a damper cast on them. Every year, someone is left out of the lineup, and while this year’s is an interesting mix, some contenders...
Led Zeppelin’s 1971 album “Led Zeppelin IV” will come to life in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, as the Black Jacket Symphony prepares to take the stage at the Bama Theatre.Founded by Birmingham musician...
The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art begins the spring semester with the exhibit “Juvenile In Justice,” featuring a lecture from the artist, Richard Ross, Wednesday.The exhibit is six years in the making...
This year’s race for the biggest Oscar of them all – “Best Picture” – will be a photo finish come March, and even Thursday morning. While several big fan favorites (such as “Gone Girl,”...
This winter, the Bama Theatre will bring a taste of the independent film scene to downtown Tuscaloosa, with the season’s edition of the Bama Art House film series running every Tuesday night through...
The Oscar nominations are coming soon. Thursday morning, we’ll find out who’s in the hunt for that legendary golden statue. While there are plenty of storylines this Oscar season, one of the most compelling...
Since 1969, The University of Alabama’s School of Music has performed a holiday concert called Hilaritas. The tradition will continue this year with two performances. Featuring a performance ensemble...
A few weeks ago, Marvel and DC Comics made the cinematic universe explode with the announcements of their schedules of superhero movie release dates. Marvel’s Cinematic Universe still has 11 films...
One of the hottest prospects being touted for 2015 is a new biopic of technology pioneer Steve Jobs. While the Apple founder’s life has already been tackled on the big screen in the 2013 film “Jobs”...
While many students at The University of Alabama may spend their weekends in the city of Tuscaloosa, University Programs aims to give students the chance to change that. From a Chris Tucker comedy show...
Monday through Friday, the department of theatre and dance at the University will tackle “Merrily We Roll Along” by American musical icon Stephen Sondheim. Based on a 1934 play and adapted into a musical...
Every year, there’s one little independent movie that captures everyone’s attention. It bursts onto the scene at a festival, and rides the wave of critical and commercial support into glory. This year...
The African Students Association, which will hold its first major event of the year Nov. 13, works to represent the University’s population that is related to Africa. Formed in 2010 by a group of students...
The Women’s Resource Center will host a bystander intervention panel on Thursday, aiming to inform members of the University of Alabama community about the signs of and tactics to prevent both dating...
October 14 marked the 20th anniversary of the film that launched the career of one of American cinema’s most prevalent auteurs: Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” The first showcase of Tarantino’s...
While the United States works to improve relations within Cuba, the University has built connections here, one of which will be on display Tuesday when Omar Pérez, a Cuban poet and musician, will...
A group of five Tuscaloosa writers will hold a public reading of their work to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Fiction Collective Two, a national organization that promotes, publishes and showcases authors...
By Drew Pendleton It’s become apparent Hollywood has successfully borne the genre of the “origin story” into massive popularity. Whether it’s a superhero movie like “Batman Begins”...
While most students in Spanish department spend their class time in an on-campus classroom, 15 students this fall semester have the opportunity to earn credits elsewhere. Founded in spring 2003 by Michael...
For 75 minutes every Monday and Wednesday, Ellen Spears, an assistant professor of American studies at The University of Alabama, instructs students on a new perspective on Southern history: its ecology.The...
Throughout the day, the Student Recreation Center bustles with activity. With a widespread clientele that includes students, professors, instructors and members of the Tuscaloosa community, the center...
Fall is coming fast, and with it the late-season box office offerings come out to play. From tense thrillers to a war drama to a music film falling right in between, October has something to offer any...
It seems Matthew McConaughey started a trend. The actor was known mainly for his mainstream box office successes before he ventured into more dramatic territory with films like “Killer Joe,” “Magic...
The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies will bring a taste of 16th century England to Tuscaloosa with its film series showcasing adaptations of William Shakespeare’s various plays at the Bama...
With the rise of the blockbuster and special affects bonanzas that have become prevalent in today’s movie marketplace, movies from Hollywood’s past have become harder to find outside of Turner Classic...
A rule of thumb for many bookworms when it comes to adaptations is to always read the book before seeing the movie. This year, several highly anticipated movies premiering at festivals over the next...
Growing up is hard to do, and it never fails to be one hell of a ride. Rarely has a movie been able to truly capture this spirit without dipping into clichés. However, one film currently in theaters,...
For movie fans, September can be a strange month. The blockbusters of summer start to vanish from theaters in preparation for their impending DVD/Blu-ray releases, but the prestigious flicks that the...
The Capstone International program at The University of Alabama will bring a Japanese holiday to Tuscaloosa with the Matsuri in the Mall celebration Saturday at University Mall. The event will celebrate...
Every May in the southern French city of Cannes, the stars align for one of the world’s largest, oldest, most storied film festivals. Since 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has played host to some of the...
What do “Friday Night Lights,” “M*A*S*H” and “Psycho” have in common? When you look at them as movies — where they rank among classics for many – the similarities are minuscule. However,...
Students, professors and members of the Tuscaloosa community alike will have the opportunity to attend a live reading by two highly acclaimed authors at the Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion in downtown Tuscaloosa...
Wes Anderson’s films define quirky filmmaking. Ranging from a dysfunctional family in “The Royal Tenenbaums” to a documentarian out for revenge in “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” from the...
During the middle weeks of March, spring break is the talk of the town for students at The University of Alabama. For members of the University’s Persian population, there is an even bigger event to...
It’s a given that every year when a superhero movie gets released, it ends up in the top 10 at the yearly box office. Longtime fans of the heroes flock to theaters to see their beloved characters on...
Now that the rain clouds over Los Angeles have cleared, and the red carpet has been rolled up the 2013 movie season has officially come to an end. With the producers and stars of “12 Years a Slave”...
With one week left until the film industry’s top event — the Academy Awards — hands out its first award, some categories already have their winners set in stone and are just waiting to hand the Oscar...
In every movie, there are two major parties – the actors who bring the film to life and the director who brings everything full circle. Recently, however, there has been a growing trend of actors pulling...
On Feb. 2, American cinema lost one of its finest contemporary actors when Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of a suspected heroin overdose in his apartment in New York City. A modern icon on the screen,...
For one week every January, filmmakers and filmgoers alike converge on the small town of Park City, Utah, nestled in the mountains east of Salt Lake City, for the Sundance Film Festival. For 10 students...
This February, in a month typically laden with romance movies up on the big screen, Hollywood is offering something different: action. With a large number of moviegoers looking for a break from the cold,...
For all movie fans, the chilly months of January, February and March are the time where the buzz from 2013 films winding down their theatrical runs begins to transfer to upcoming 2014 ones. This year,...
Whether in the dance studio or on a film set, John Virciglio said he has always considered himself an “outside-the-box thinker.” Besides his position as an adjunct dance faculty member at The University...
There’s a scene in the early minutes of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” the newly released adaptation of the sequel to Suzanne Collins’ novel and 2012 film “The Hunger Games,” in which the...
These days, it’s become a customary trend with the newest book-to-film adaptations to give some fans a first chance to see what’s new to theaters before a film’s opening day. Starting with midnight...
Last week, the first trailers for a new take on the biblical story of Noah hit the Internet. Complete with stunning visuals and a talented cast, the film – simply titled “Noah” – is set to hit...
A motley mix of movies will hit the big screen this month, varying from much-awaited sequels to a front-running film for the Best Picture Oscar. “12 Years a Slave,” which received rave reviews from...
Aspiring television writers have an opportunity to be heard in Hollywood this October thanks to the script competition “Scriptapalooza TV.” Intended to help open doors for aspiring screenwriters,...
The weather isn’t the only thing that changes when summer segues into fall. While the weather may begin to cool down, the fall film season heats up, bringing a wave of new, intriguing films to wide audiences....
It’s official: The world has a new Batman. But many people aren’t happy about who it is. On Aug. 22, Warner Brothers announced that Ben Affleck, known most recently for directing the Best Picture...
