OFFScreen's latest indie import is Danish director Anders Morgenthaler's brain child, Princess. The story follows the unexpected death of a reigning porn star, Catherine (known in the business as "Princess"), who leaves her five-year-old child, Mia, in the hands of her associates.
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards show has come and gone and, for once, they were surprisingly awesome.
Who's In? Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol - We admit, it's not exactly high-brow literature, but it's flying off the shelves, which is great for the book industry. Shakira "She Wolf" - This ode to lycanthropy is backed by one of the greatest guitar riffs and bass lines in pop music this year.
Heavy, outlandish and quick - words that describe Buffalo-based metalcore outfit Every Time I Die. The band came together in 1998 with brothers Keith and Jordan Buckley on vocals and guitar, respectively.
Beautiful music poured out of the Amphitheater Saturday evening, compelling anyone walking nearby to stop and listen to the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra's "Symphony Under the Stars." While we in the audience listened and relaxed, director and conductor Kate Tamarkin got a real workout.
Every once in a while, an album comes along and changes perception - after that album is released, you can never quite look at the artist the same way.
Typically, thrash metal and classical guitar are not two genres mentioned in the same sentence. Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, however, is not your typical musical outfit.
Taste is a bizarre and fickle term, don't you think? On the one hand, it can describe the merit of whatever you ate this morning, and - on the other - it can refer to the resonance between people's opinions about just about anything. But how much does this term matter when it is so subjective?
OFFscreen, a student-run club which screens independent films in Newcomb Hall Theater each Sunday, gives students the opportunity to see films for a reasonable price that they would not otherwise get to see in Charlottesville - or, for that matter, the rest of Virginia.
From watching the recently released The Time Traveler's Wife, one would think that the book version was something akin to one of those paperback Danielle Steel novels with sentimental cursive titles that you see on supermarket shelves.
That Old Cape Magic is the latest novel from Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Russo. Russo, who made his mark on American literature with Empire Falls, tells the story of a middle-aged man who deals with the demons of his past in his newest novel. This novel deals with heavy-handed topics such as failed marriages, death and hidden disturbia in everyday life.
"All of a sudden, even though you have a place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone." In Away We Go, Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) and Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) search for that very mythical place - home - that Zach Braff claimed in Garden State disappears from the life of a 30-something as he begins to settle down.
The main image in my head after Whiteout was the constant blizzard that literally made it difficult to see the action.
If there's one place we look to each year for a bit of outrageousness on television, it's MTV's annual Video Music Awards.
In 1995, the Gallagher brothers of Oasis collaborated on the song "Acquiesce," off of Roll With It. In it, Noel Gallagher sings loosely of brotherly love when he proclaims "We need each other / We believe in one another." Last week however, Noel apparently changed his mind.
Class is back in full swing and we at tableau know you are already overrun with algorithms, James Joyce or astrophysics.
Few American directors are as revered as Quentin Tarantino. He has directed some of the most critically acclaimed films in the last 20 years, such as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
Mike Judge does it again. The writer-director behind one of the biggest comedy cult classics, Office Space, rises to the top of his field yet again with the new comedy, Extract.
I was recently asked about my favorite song by a new acquaintance. When I replied, "Closer," the person nodded her head knowingly. "Ne-Yo?" she asked in affirmation. "No," I replied.
Alan Ball, director and creator of the popular series Six Feet Under, brings life back to HBO with season two of the blood- and sex-infused True Blood. True Blood is centered on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress who lives in the fictional small town of Bon Temps, La.
