Emma Bravo
(02/26/14 3:56pm)
Emma Bravo
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Emma Bravo
"An experimental, character-based sketch comedy show that uses video" was how Adrien Pellerin, director and winner of the Rice University Student Film Competition describes his grand prize-winning video, "The Leronda Howell Presentation." The film features Leronda Howell, an overzealous documentarian, who is irate as her ideas for various documentaries have been stolen by bigger filmmakers and made into big deals.
Sweet Lola Yogurt Bar exudes cuteness, from its screamingly hot pink overhang to its Barbie's tearoom-like interior. Deemed "Best in City" by the Houston Press, Sweet Lola on 304 Gray St. is certainly different and relatively healthy, but it doesn't quite add up to the best frozen yogurt I've ever eaten.
To watch "Points of Contact," Rice Dance Theater's fall performance, is to experience an array of human emotion without ever having to leave your seat. From the mischievous and cheeky "Clementine Ain't Misbehavin'" to the giddy "Live it Up," from the showy swing dancing in "Great Balls of Fire" to the melancholy longing of "I Wish," the choreography weaves wide and varied stories.
Repurposed is the kind of art that would be best enjoyed on a quiet morning when you can lie on your back, cushioned by thousands of reused plastic bags, and contemplate the mysteries and wonders of the universe as dozens of black and white photos spin above your head.
This film delivers the base expectations of a Disney movie about prom. A happy ending, first of all. A geeky guy who, despite his best efforts, can't seem to win, but ultimately does. The seemingly perfect couple that falls apart at the seams. The main character who deserves never-ending happiness and love, but doesn't quite receive her hard-earned reward until the end of the movie. Check, check and check. This movie is nothing if not predictable.
With its fantastic combination of gambling high rollers, upright religious workers and quibbling lovers, Guys and Dolls is a well-loved musical that has been revived multiple times on Broadway. Brown College's production of the play, directed by Brown junior Mike Clendenen and Brown sophomore Kensey King, valiantly strives for another great revival. While their version of the musical is a modestly entertaining show, it doesn't quite live up to the hype.Guys and Dolls is a lively comedy set against the backdrop of prohibition-era New York. In a last-ditch attempt to obtain the money he needs to host a game of craps for the high rollers in town, craps master Nathan Detroit makes a bet with the smooth-talking Sky Masterson that he can't get Sargent Sarah Brown to fall for him. But of course, Masterson and Sarah end up falling in love. Disaster ensues and misunderstandings abound as the two try to sort each other out.
In no way is Capitalism: A Love Story your average love story. Nor is it a love story that anyone should be prepared to take too seriously.Michael Moore, one of the film world's most notorious creators of blatantly biased commentaries, "uncovers the secrets of capitalism" in a highly affected 127-minute film altogether too ludicrous to be seen as the message Moore intends. Capitalism follows Moore around the country as he explores the exploited masses of America - the hardworking middle-class whose houses are being foreclosed, the unpaid factory workers and the thousands of people who have had their jobs cut due to capitalism.
"It was like taking my mom's car up and down the driveway ... while no one was looking." Thus begins the slew of awkward sex analogies that pepper the script of My First Time, directed by Wiess College junior Tiffany Kim, who is putting on this unusual Off-Broadway show with the help of eight fellow students and funding from the Dr. Bill Wilson Student Initiative Grant.The overall presentation of the show is sharp, beginning in darkness as an awkward tune plays in the background. In between periods of snappy one-liners ("I lost my hymen in a bike accident") and longer monologues, the stage projector serves to intersperse random fun facts about sex. Did you know that the average French person loses their V-status at 16.8 years? Germany is 16.2! And the United States is ... well, you can just ponder on that for a while.