Ryan Spaight, Staff Writer
February 21, 2013
Fair warning: landline phones make a guest appearance in “When Harry Met Sally.” This means that, yes, if a pizza roll hunger-pang had hit Harry (Billy Crystal) or Sally (Meg Ryan) while they were on the phone, they would have had to make a very real and poignant choice between human interaction... Read more »
Emily Gresbrink, Freelancer
September 13, 2012
Out of the audible cacophony, special effect storm and marketing chaos of modern cinema, one film has risen and prove true a time-old phrase: “silence is golden.” The 2011 Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning film, “The Artist” is a black-and-white, silent feature from France that takes viewers... Read more »
Emily Gresbrink
May 3, 2012
The UAC Campus Film Series is drawing to a close for the 2011-2012 school year. The series offered a wide variety of films throughout the past year. This upcoming weekend, something unique will capture the minds of theatre enthusiasts and period drama fans alike. “Me and Orson Welles,” based on the... Read more »
Cal McNeil
March 28, 2012
I never imagined I would be so invested in another worldwide addiction to a film franchise based on a book series at 22 years old. I was obsessed with “Harry Potter,” but now I have a new mega-addiction that showed up nearly overnight: “The Hunger Games.” “The Hunger Games” book trilogy... Read more »
Taylor Kuether
March 1, 2012
“Lost in Translation” is, unsurprisingly, best suited for fans of Wes Anderson films (notoriously minimal, poignant movies about quirky characters in relatively-realistic situations). At times quiet, always gorgeously shot, the movie is a surreal step inside the introspective nature of the two main... Read more »
Eric Christenson
May 10, 2011
You guys, you know I love you. And I love doing things for you. For instance, watching awful movies and telling you about how bad they are. I love that. Hopefully you feel the same way. As a reward (I guess) for sticking around ALL SEMESTER (we were so young back then!), it’s time for the... Read more »
Thom Fountain
April 7, 2011
This week’s Campus Film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, will feature a lecture and discussion led by Blake Westerlund, an English department faculty member and coordinator of the UWEC Writing Center. Managing Editor Thom Fountain sat down with Westerlund to talk about the film and lecture. Thom Fountain: How... Read more »
Eric Christenson
February 23, 2011
Some movies are good. Some movies are bad. Some movies are the worst. Since I am DEFINITELY one of the film critic elite, I’ll sit back on my silk furniture, eat chocolate covered everything and I’ll trudge through the snake pit of Hollywood’s worst undertakings so you don’t have to. Fulfilling... Read more »
Eric Christenson
October 7, 2010
Before I started writing this review, I sat at my computer, and by sheer muscle-memory and mental ritual, I checked Facebook. Then I wrote my name at the top of a Word document, and then I distractedly checked Facebook again. I’m sure the majority of us do this so habitually that Facebook is actually... Read more »
