Marcus Falc ão / THE GATEPOST By Owen Glancy Arts & Features Editor “Owen’s Oldies” has historically been a column dedicated to exposing readers to a new world of cinema, films that are either too obscure or too old for most to have seen, let alone heard of. Across four semesters, that’s what “Owen’s Oldies” has done, quite successfully too. A few people have come up to me saying that they’ve watched films such as “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” or “The Long Goodbye” thanks to “

By Owen Glancy Arts & Features Editor Of all the classic anime from the late 1970s, “Mobile Suit Gundam” is still the most popular and influential. As the first “real robot” mecha anime, “Gundam’s” themes of the dehumanizing effects of war and the price of freedom brought an element of realism to the typically fantastical mecha genre and made it the premium way to tell anti-war stories in the medium of anime. However, “Mobile Suit Gundam” was not always a household name. In

By Owen Glancy Arts & Features Editor This past summer saw the release of acclaimed director Wes Anderson’s latest feature film, “The Phoenician Scheme.” While many were excited, many more were skeptical. Anderson’s latest works, specifically “The French Dispatch” and “Asteroid City” were divisive even amongst Anderson fans with the main criticism levied against them being that they leaned too far into style and left behind substance. While I personally don’t agree with tha

By Antonio Machado Copy Editor Somewhere over at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, on Nov. 6, the cast of “Wicked” held a prerecorded live music special to celebrate the phenomenon that was the first film and build anticipation for the soon-to-be cultural behemoth “Wicked: For Good.” “Wicked: One Wonderful Night,” which featured cast interviews and skits, brand-new song arrangements performed live, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks into both “Wicked” films, and

Marcus Falc ão / THE GATEPOST By Owen Glancy Arts & Features Editor “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” has the distinction of being the oldest film covered in Owen’s Oldies yet. It is the first silent film I’ve covered and it was released all the way back in 1920.  When this film was released, the world of cinema was at its most volatile. The major studios across the world hadn’t quite become as solidified as they would be in the 1930s, and the cinematic canon was still being esta

By Owen Glancy Arts & Features Editor Of the European countries known for their robust film industries, most people often think of France, Italy, and Germany. However, an oft overlooked equal among them is Spain, a country whose cinema and the masters born of it is often passed over. While filmmakers like J.A. Bayona and Luis Buñuel have both left their marks, no other Spanish filmmaker has had more success than Pedro Almodóvar. He has one of the largest filmographies in th

By Jesse Burchill Staff Writer Liv Dunleavy / THE GATEPOST “Jaws” received an anniversary re-release from Aug. 29th to Sept. 4. to...

By Michael Trueswell Staff Writer Emily Monaco / THE GATEPOST Released on Nov. 1, “Blitz” captures the danger civilians faced during...

Ben Hurney / THE GATEPOST Marcus Falcão / THE GATEPOST By Owen Glancy Arts & Features Editor Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films are...

By Emma Lyons Editorial Staff In November 2004 Warner Bros released “The Polar Express,” a movie based on the book of the same name....

"Luca" By Austin Riffelmacher Sea creatures collecting land garbage. Parental figures warning against the human world. Fish living in...

Brennan Atkins Staff Writer Actor in a Leading Role What we predict: Joaquin Pheonix While there may be flaws in the film “Joker,” one...

American Vandal (2017) Noah Barnes Entertainment Correspondent The basic image Netflix’s original series, “American Vandal,” presents in...

By Brad Leuchte Staff Writer Speed, fame, sex, danger. It’s all there in this fast-paced and action-packed re-creation of the rivalry...

By Michael B. Murphy Editorial Staff Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut “Stoker” is somewhat of an odd duck. As a...