(Flickr) As someone who has played chess for over a decade, I couldn’t be more pleased with The Queen’s Gambit. Producer Scott Frank captures the intensity of the game and the internal battle Beth Harmon faces, all on a sixty-four square board. Set in the 1950s, Beth Harmon ( Anya Taylor-Joy), an orphan after a…

(Wikimedia Commons)   Netflix has been coming out with a plethora of new shows and movies this week, including The Haunting of Bly Manor, Yes God Yes, new episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, The Queen’s Gambit, Rebecca, and Emily in Paris-with  weak writing that manages to tether viewers to their screens and keep watching.  Emily in…

Home of Halloween fanatic, Hubie Dubois. (flickr.com) Halloween is known for some classic films such as It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Beetlejuice, and Coraline.  But Netflix’s new movie Hubie Halloween will not be added to the canon: it is a major misfire. Hubie Dubois (Adam Sandler) is the unpopular but devoted community volunteer in the…

Millie Bobby Brown, “Stranger Things” actress plays Enola Holmes (flickr.com)   It is hard being the sister of a famous super sleuth, but Enola Holmes stands on her own with her feminist stance.  With not much coming to the big screen during the pandemic, Enola Holmes has been highly anticipated due to the star-studded cast, including…

(Cami Seymore’23/A&E Editor)   On Monday, September 14, Upper School Ceramics teacher, Charity White led a seminar on Socially Conscious Art and Teaching at Miami University, where she discussed her activist-based artwork and her socially conscious classroom lessons.  White hopes the audience “thought about ways in which they can talk about difficult conversations and how…

Wednesday, May 13 was not my birthday. It was not Christmas. Yet on that day, I found myself grinning ear to ear for three hours as I watched this legendary finale. It is not hyperbole to say that this was the greatest finale ever, and this season certainly ranks in the top 5. After Nick…

John Krasinski, star of the hit comedy series The Office, used some of  his quarantine time to spread good news on his youtube channel, beginning on March 29.  Before Krasinski signed off off of his clips, he had posted a weekly video that included good news,  such as a virtual wedding or birthday celebrations. Lin…

Under quarantine, some of us are looking at old teen classics for an uplifting experience. I was expecting a heartwarming tale when I started watching Soul Surfer, having never seen it when I was younger. Based on the story of Bethany Hamilton, a popular surfer, who in the 2003 loses her arm in a shark…