Category Archives: Film & TV

Among Hollywood’s so-called “difficult” writers, those who insist upon a level of intellectual effort that isn’t required to understand the human-Na’vi conflict, Charlie Kaufman is perhaps uniquely focused on finding new ways to represent psychological reality. In his most successful films ““ “Being John Malkovich,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Adaptation” and “Synecdoche, New York” ““ Kaufman often seems to be thinking out loud, on the screen, as he works through his stories.

April 20 is the high holy holiday for stoners across the world (pun definitely intended), and you can bet Snoop Dogg will be celebrating with a joint or two or twelve.

Purgatory, desolation and loneliness aren’t the first words that come to mind when the carjacking video game “Grand Theft Auto” is mentioned.

Students fill the spaces between stage walls, dated sofas and a fake fireplace of the set built on Sound Stage 3 of Melnitz Hall.

Inside a tie-dyed drawstring bag hangs a 12-inch version of one of literature’s most complex characters, Don Quixote.