Amid the festivities of Family and Friends Weekend and Halloween, members of the Mount Holyoke College community gathered in Rooke Theatre to watch the film media theater department’s recent production of "The Addams Family,”directed by Noah Tuleja, an associate professor of film media theater and the film media theater chair.
“We Live in Time” poses an unusual meet-cute: accidentally hitting your future soulmate with your car as he drops his chocolate while crossing a busy highway. This new romance film, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh and directed by John Crowley, interweaves humor and tear-jerking moments, ultimately emphasizing a reminder that our time together is finite.
As election day rapidly approaches, Mount Holyoke College student organization MHC Votes! organized their very own “I Voted” sticker competition in collaboration with the Weissman Center for Leadership. The iconic stickers, which have been a staple of American voting culture since the 1980s, will be getting their own Mount Holyoke twist. Participants in the contest were given the task of designing a sticker with unique visuals and themes. Everyone from the Mount Holyoke College community was encouraged to submit their sticker designs, regardless of artistic expertise.
After only three days of being on campus, Audrey Hanan ’28 sat down in her Pearsons Hall dorm room and painted Jorge, Mount Holyoke College’s unofficial pilgrim goose mascot. Unbeknownst to her, her artwork would become a campus-wide sensation and lead to a business selling prints of both the beloved goose and campus locations she had painted.
As the doors of Chapin Auditorium opened on Sept. 28, a small crowd gathered at the foot of the stairs. It was the first show of the semester put on by Mount Holyoke College Students for Alternative Music, also known as MHC Alt, a student group who organizes concerts on campus. The show was free and open to the public, and though the crowd was primarily made up of Mount Holyoke College students, there were several people from the wider area in attendance as well.
As a picturesque sunset fell over Pratt Music Hall, Mount Holyoke College student band Twolips began their Sept. 19 concert on the grass just outside the building. A small crowd gathered before the show began, but several more listeners came after the music started, attracted by both the melodies and the s’mores offered by the Office of Student Involvement a few feet away.
Mount Holyoke College’s a cappella groups brought their best to a mixed group of auditioners and supporters at O-JAM, hosted on Friday, Sept. 6. Each group was greeted by chants from the audience, as well as individual shoutouts to some particularly supported performers. However, no matter who they were there to see, the crowd had consistent energy and enthusiasm for the entirety of the performance.
Although horror is most associated with fall, anyone on summer break will know that summer has plenty of scary elements as well: bugs everywhere, sleepless humid nights and the creeping feeling of dread that you’re wasting your time. Besides, summer also provides various opportunities to get outside: the best place to watch a horror movie! Here are eight summer horror movies you need to add to your summer watchlist.
JoJo Siwa, of “Dance Moms” and Nickelodeon fame, has attracted the spotlight again this spring with an announcement that she’s pioneering gay pop. The actress and dancer, who identifies as pansexual, has previously appeared in “The Fruitties Are Back” (2022), “Kung Fu Sock” (2022), “The Angry Birds Movie 2” (2019) and “Siwa’s Dance Pop Revolution” (2021). On April 5, 2024, she released her latest project, a pop single accompanied by a music video titled “Karma.”
The immense popularity of the new romantic comedy “Anyone But You” has led some critics to hail the start of a rom-com renaissance. The film was a box office success, earning more than $200 million globally, and has begun trending on social media. It has even started a TikTok trend featuring the end credit song “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield, which has made the Billboard Top 20 in the U.K. for the first time in 19 years.
“Drive-Away Dolls” marks the solo directorial debut of Ethan Coen, who is famed for his work with his brother, Joel Coen. The movie is thematically similar to many of their combined works, though the cast is radically different from that of movies like “The Big Lebowski.”
It follows Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) as two friends who embark on a road trip after Jamie’s infidelity-based breakup with her police officer-girlfriend Sukie (Beanie Feldstein.)
Chelsea Wolfe is an artist who has done a bit of everything, from collaborating with metalcore band Converge and dark folk act King Dude to co-writing the soundtrack for the 2022 horror movie “X” starring Mia Goth. Now, Wolfe has released her seventh album, “She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She,” which came out on Feb. 9. The album combines the stylings of early Grimes’ electronica with those of Mitski’s emotional depth.
As the outside world remained bitterly cold, showgoers slowly gathered at Amherst College’s Marsh Arts House at 6:30 p.m. for a show that mixed elements of shoegaze, grunge and classic punk. Over the next hour, the space became increasingly crowded, with attendees perusing merchandise for bands Tributary and Blandest, including Ruby Thompson’s “Unrequited Fanzine.”
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, “Poor Things,” is a bizarre yet hilarious reimagination of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” The film, based on a novel of the same name written by the Scottish author Alasdair Gray and published in 1992, uses mesmerizing cinematography inspired by surrealist art, catches the viewer’s eye and engages them in this eccentric coming-of-age story.
