Film - Campus Circle

Recent Film Articles

Che

Rarely has a historical figure such as the great Ernesto “Che” Guevara been so revered around the world by a multitude of differing...

Iván Villanueva

Film Interviews

The Reader

In the upcoming emotional drama based on Bernhard Schlink’s semiautobiographical bestseller, The Reader, a most telling line...

Bonnie Priever

Film Interviews

Doubt

What is the opposite of doubt? Is it certainty? Belief? Or is it hope? When John Patrick Shanley decided to bring “Doubt,” his...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Interviews

Timecrimes

There are many films about time travel, though nothing quite like Timecrimes, the feature-length debut of Oscar-nominated director...

Nick Day

Film Interviews

Wendy and Lucy

When it comes to working in Hollywood, people say that it’s all about whom you know, even if you’re an established talent like...

Nick Day

Film Interviews

What Doesn't Kill You

Hollywood loves a good comeback story, and in What Doesn’t Kill You, Mark Ruffalo’s performance as Brian is indeed a display...

Bonnie Priever

Film Projections

Monsieur Verdoux

Charlie Chaplin is most often remembered as the Tramp: walking pigeon-toed with a cane, playing with his derby hat and making...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Nothing Like The Holidays

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned, melodramatic family film in the style of Terms of Endearment to get us into the holiday...

Bonnie Priever

Film Interviews

The Day The Earth Stood Still

We live in a world where the environment is on its last leg, and everyone is at his or her wit’s end on how to correct the situation....

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

Nobel Son

Stuck in a no man’s land between family drama, caper flick and acerbic comedy, Nobel Son stars Alan Rickman as Nobel Prize nominated...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

Hunger

What happens when man is forced to live in subhuman conditions, is violated and his freedom taken from him? What happens when...

Farnaz Youshei

Film Movie Reviews

Children of Winter: Never Grow Old

When do enormous mountains, like Mt. Bachelor and Silverton Mountain, become playgrounds with lots of possibilities? When men...

Farnaz Youshei

Film Movie Reviews

The Black Balloon

Uplifting and unexpected, The Black Balloon, writer-director Elissa Down’s touching semi-autobiographical film, centers around...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

A Good Day To Be Black and Sexy

Paying homage to its title, A Good Day to be Black & Sexy spends most of its screen time in the bedrooms of its actors telling...

Samantha Ofole

Film Movie Reviews

This Christmas

Yes, it’s worth it to see and hear Chris Brown sing “This Christmas.” He’s no Donny Hathaway, but he puts his own soulful spin...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

The Perfect Holiday

It’s a perfect love story with a predictable plot, seen-it-all-before stereotypes and cheesy romance. Yet it’s the cast that...

Jessica Koslow

Film Movie Reviews

Holiday Inn

Right up there with Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas and, for some reason, It’s a Wonderful Life (the tone doesn’t seem...

Angela Matano

Film Special Features

Holiday Film Guide

In anticipation of turtle doves, French hens, partridges in pear trees and the arrival of $20 poinsettias at your neighborhood...

Rayhané S. Sanders

Film Projections

Zero Film Fest

When Rich Hooban and Brad Bores couldn’t get film festivals to take their self-funded road trip flicks seriously, they decided...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Cadillac Records

“If Elvis Presley was the king of rock ’n’ roll, then Muddy Waters was the god of rock,” claims Jeffrey...

Samantha Ofole

Film Movie Reviews

Lake City

It’s a bummer to see the genius of an actor like Troy Garity wasted on a film like Lake City. While Lake has some decent moments,...

Ebony March

Film Movie Reviews

The Beautiful Truth

Garrett, a teenager disheartened by the death of his mother, is inspired to go on a cross-country quest for the “beautiful truth”...

Natasha Desianto

Film Interviews

Australia

He’s just been named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine. Now actor Hugh Jackman is ready to take audiences by storm as a...

Ebony March

Film Interviews

Special

Hal Haberman Staying up all night in the editing room … Cutting film on a flatbed … Never having to cut film on a flatbed ever...

Film Interviews

Trasporter 3

Frank Martin lives by four simple rules: 1) Never change the deal 2) No names 3) Never open the package 4) Never make a promise...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Projections

An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt is an animator unlike any other. In addition to hand drawing demented stick figure cartoons and winning awards...

Sarah Bennett

Film Interviews

Four Christmases

Santa left you something under the tree a little early this year (Wasn’t it just Halloween?). It’s Four Christmases, a holiday...

Sasha Perl-Raver

Film Movie Reviews

24: Redemption

In this two-hour, feature-length “24” special, four years have passed since the season six finale, and Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland)...

Yuri Shimoda

Film Movie Reviews

Toots

If God had asked Toots Shor what he would have wanted to be in life, his response would surely have been, “What are you kidding?...

Nicole Boisvert

Film Movie Reviews

Eden

There’s nothing new about the idea of making a film that showcases the dynamics of a marriage under stress. What’s new about...

Henry Senecal