The members of McKinley High School glee club, the fictional subjects of the hit FOX television show, “Glee” wanted to make artistic expression socially acceptable at their school.
Category Archives: Film & TV
Documentary film “˜Fighting for Life’ reveals the medical side of war
The war in Iraq has inspired a number of movies and documentaries, covering everything from the search for weapons of mass destruction to the role of oil, varying in their degrees of political commentary and sensationalism.
Screen Scene: “Mid-August Lunch”
In the middle of August, Italy just stops.
Organists pay musical homage to Alfred Hitchcock films, Bernard Hermann scores
The iconic scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” that has made generations scared of shower curtains ever since ““ the beauty of Janet Leigh, a bathtub, a knife ““ owes much of its spine-tingling terror to the accompanying music of intensely screeching violins.
TV sinks to a “Pretty Wild” new low
In a history seminar of mine last week, we spent a solid chunk of class discussing the current state of television, and many of us expressed the belief that it should no longer be defined as a culture-less cesspool of Paula Abdul and laugh tracks.
Bruins’ pilot may turn full-fledged show
It’s not every day that you hear about Bruins becoming writers and producers while they’re still students at UCLA.
Hollywood embraces trends in a third dimension
Films released in three-dimensional format are not a new concept, but the recent influx of 3-D action-adventure and animated films is causing the movie and television industry to quickly transition to capitalize on the stunning success of these 3-D films, from “Avatar” to “Alice in Wonderland.”