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Emma Clement | Graphic Artist

How I learned to fear the horror streaming bubble | You Scared Me!

By Josh Rosenthal October 16, 2024
The streaming era of horror is starting to wear me down. With Halloween looming closer, both the Sarah Paulson-led “Hold Your Breath” and body-swap blast “It’s What’s Inside” debuted exclusively on Hulu and Netflix, respectively, this October — despite holding their world premieres at Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance. This furthers a recent trend of horror movies bypassing theaters altogether and getting sent straight to streaming — making a select few festival audiences some of the only people to experience these films on the big screen.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

5-Minute Major: The NHL may need a reality TV show

By Annika Morris April 10, 2024
Hockey players need their own moment in the spotlight. Netflix recently announced “Receiver,” the sequel to its popular series “Quarterback” which followed around three NFL quarterbacks for a behind-the-scenes look into their lives, and a docu-series about the 2024 Boston Red Sox. I now need the NHL to get its own reality show.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

‘The Women’ illuminates women in war | By the Book

By Sana Muneer March 19, 2024
Kristin Hannah, the author of “The Nightingale,” takes readers back to the 1960s with her new release, “The Women.” This book illuminates a woman who served as a nurse in the Vietnam War. If you’re interested in reading this book, I’d recommend keeping some tissues nearby.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Mean world syndrome: Crime TV, the city and me

By Lucas De Oliveira November 30, 2023
For viewers of crime genres, these shows provide eerie, intense and thrilling feelings that are all too familiar. With the assistance of streaming platforms, obsessively binge-viewing these series’ becomes extremely convenient. It’s this convenience that pulled me into the world of cable crime television, and keeping away has proved to be a challenge of its own.
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