Creative Arts Publication

04/15/2018

New article about morality in Black Mirror episode "U.S.S. Callister", check it out!

by Maddie Ritter U.S.S. Callister sparks a discussion about the morality of locking up a computer code that thinks it's a real person. This is a very confusing subject to grasp, especially if you haven’t seen the show. In USS Callister, virtual reality video game inventor Robert Daly (Jesse Plemon

03/09/2018

What it's like to watch My Friend Dahmer (2017) and really feel for a serial killer:

By Maddie Ritter While this movie was absolutely fantastic (the cinematography was gorgeous, the acting was incredible, and the story itself was so compelling) it's a little scary how bad I felt for teen Dahmer. If you don’t know, Jeffrey Dahmer spent 13 years ra**ng, murdering, mutilating and som

03/03/2018

Richard takes on what memes are and why they're art.

by Richard de Schweinitz Memes can be seen as a sort of relentlessly self-aware cross section of cultural consciousness into which irony, sincerity, reference, and self-reference are all absorbed.  The project of this article will be, in short, to define and categorize the art form of mem

02/02/2018

Maddie Ritter talking about s*x positivity and equal s*x ed in Big Mouth!

by Maddie Ritter “Big Mouth” is all about discovering s*xuality and s*xual exploration in middle school and high school. And what’s so great about the show is it explores female s*xuality as much as it explores male s*xuality. The show gives equal attention to both genders and their journeys t...

11/25/2017

"Call Me By Your Name" is in theaters starting yesterday! Go see it and read Alena Cover's review!

by Alena Cover The New Orleans Film Festival chose “Call Me By Your Name” (2017) to feature on its closing night, a month ahead of its November wide release. The movie is set in northern Italy, where an art history professor invites Oliver (Armie Hammer), an American grad student, to stay in his fam

11/24/2017

Great review of Stranger Things Season 2!

by Spencer Shackel The highly anticipated second season of “Stranger Things” was released October 26th on Netflix and was met with great commercial and critical praise. The hype for the second season was palpable after a purposefully ambiguous ending to the first series and the trailers created a lo

11/21/2017

Sweet review of a sweet album by our new writer, Margeaux Labat! Check it out!

by Margeaux Labat Archy Marshall can be classified as many things -- a rapper, producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, innovator -- but a slacker is not one of them. His sophomore album under his most well-known pseudonym, King Krule, finally dropped after previously releasing his debut album “

11/06/2017

"Happy Death Day" (2017), filmed on Loyola's campus, is a good comedy but a bad horror film, writes Maddie Ritter.

by Maddie Ritter I would argue that this is not a traditional horror movie. Happy Death Day is, for lack of a better word, predictable, and what makes horror movies so scary is the unknown. We knew just from the trailer that Tree would repeat her birthday until she found her killer and broke the c*c

10/27/2017

Death Note (2017), like most live action anime remakes, misses the mark entirely, writes Julian Harmon.

by Julian Harmon The original iteration of “Death Note” follows a teenager, Light Yagami, as he maintains the criminal persona of Kira while outwitting Interpol and the enigmatic L. Much of the story’s appeal lies with the cat and mouse game played between Light and everyone else. Much like

10/09/2017

Alena Cover writes about "It" (2017), fear, and movie remakes!

by Alena Cover On the whole, the moving is engaging and thoughtful. The kid actors hold the screen well, especially Finn Wolfhard and Jack Dylan Grazer, who get the most laughs from the audience, and Jaeden Lieberher, who delivers his lines compellingly, especially when he turns to the grou

10/02/2017

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10/02/2017

Prytania Theatre is wrapping up its Miyazaki month so here's the first installment of our series on Miyazaki as a modern mythology! More stuff coming soon!

by Richard de Schweinitz Though Miyazaki is not the only director in Studio Ghibli, he is certainly the most recognizable figure among them. The tone and themes of his works, exploring topics such as environmentalism, feminism, and capitalism, characterize much of the rest of the studio’s wo