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Film

Photo of Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). At left, Portman has long blonde hair, and wears what looks like a bodice and skirt of armor. She also wears a red cape. Thor has long blonde hair and a beard; he also wears a full-body armor suit and red cape, and has muscular arms. The stand in front of a brightly-lit field.

Movie Quiz

How Did You Do on Our Thor: Love and Thunder Trivia Quiz?

July 6, 2022

Collage: Images of 5 Black media arranged in two rows. Tp row of 3 shows cover of "The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States", podcast art for "The Read" podcast, and poster for "A Black Lady Sketch Show". Second Row has promotional artwork for "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" and album cover of Koffee's "Gifted".

Juneteenth

Celebrate Juneteenth with These 15 Films, Podcasts, TV Shows, Albums, and Books

June 15, 2022

Chris Pratt outstretching his hand toward a CGI dinosaur in Jurassic World Dominion

Film & TV

How Did You Do on Our Jurassic World Dominion Trivia Quiz?

June 8, 2022

Janet Lewin helps filmmakers develop the special effects technology needed to bring characters—like the Star Wars droid BB-8—to life on screen. Here Lewin and BB-8 sit in a cinema

TV & Film

Lucasfilm’s Janet Lewin Talks Star Wars and Technology

June 6, 2022

Photo of a blossoming lilac bush, with clusters of small purple, pink and white flowers, and large green, heart-shaped leaves.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: May 5 to 8

May 4, 2022

The red-carpet event, held at the Tsai Performance Center April 15, attracted a sizable, at-times boisterous, crowd. “It’s a lot of fun to do these award shows live, especially if Will Smith isn’t on the guest list,” quipped Bill Braudis, a COM assistant professor of film and television. Here a large crowd is pictured watching short films in a cinema at the 2022 Redstones

Film & TV

Redstone Film Festival: A Triumphant In-Person Return

April 16, 2022

Photo of Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin and Daniel Durant in a scene from CODA. They are sitting around a table eating dinner. Kotsur wears a red sox baseball cap. Matlin smiles widely as Durant shows something to the family on his phone.

Voices & Opinion

POV: CODA’s Oscar Wins Represent an Historic Moment

April 5, 2022

Composite image of the following movie posters on a dark gray background: Belfast, CODA, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story"

Film

Encanto, West Side Story, King Richard: Let’s Talk Oscars

March 23, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

Movie poster for the Batman 2022 movie. The poster features the new cast, Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne (Batman), Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle (Catwoman), and Paul Dano as Edward Nashton (The Riddler). The poster has dramatic lighting with a yellow/orange tinge. At the top, "unmask the truth" is written in creepy red letters.

Movie Quiz

Results Are In! Time to Unmask The Batman Trivia Winner

March 3, 2022

Image: Bottom half of the Give or Take movie poster, featuring actors actors Norbert Leo Butz and Jamie Effros in a still of the film. Words underneath read "Give or Take, You can't choose family"

Film & TV

COM Alums Helm New Indie Dramedy Give or Take

March 2, 2022

Spider-man stands back to back with Dr Strange in front of an urban cityscape

Film & TV

To Start Celebrating the Holidays Early, How Does Free Tickets to Spider-Man: No Way Home Sound?

December 17, 2021

TV & Film

His App Won an Emmy. His Movie Wrapped. October Was Good to BU Alum Steve Vitolo

December 1, 2021

Image of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife Poster. Poster features a drawing of the backs of 6 people coming of a Ghostbusters car as a neon strike of green and yellow lightening lights the sky and hits the ground.

Movie Quiz

Dying to Know Who Won Our Ghostbusters: Afterlife Quiz?

November 18, 2021

National Sports

Should Sports Teams Change Their Native-Inspired Names?

October 29, 2021

Still from the horror film Rosemary's baby. Rosemary stands in a blue night gown with a knife in her hand over a black baby cradle.

Books

Need a Halloween Flick? BU’s Regina Hansen Has Edited a New Book on Satan in Cinema

October 28, 2021

Listen Now

Who Will Be the Next James Bond?

October 21, 2021

screenshot from new film Mass: (from left to right) Both looking distressed, Ann Dowd holds a bouquet and stands next to Reed Birney in hospital doorway

Film & TV

In His New Film, Reed Birney Finds the Role of a Lifetime

October 8, 2021

Daniel Craig in a scene from the James Bond film, No Time To Die.

Film & TV

No Time to Die: Want Free Tickets to the Latest James Bond Film?

October 8, 2021

Awards

COM Grad Student Wins Humanitas Prize College Screenwriting Fellowship

September 27, 2021

COM Grad Student Wins Humanitas Prize College Screenwriting Fellowship