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Review: Vibrant film charts family’s evolving dynamics

By Antonio Ferme, Senior Writer • October 28, 2020

"Minari" focuses on a family overcoming challenges of feeling isolated in a new environment. The film will likely be on streaming services next year.

“Eat the rich” phenomenon dominates popular films

By Elijah de Castro • May 19, 2020

When looking back on the most popular films of 2019, I noticed a trend. These films featured characters on the bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum enacting vengeance on those at the top. While the mainstream...

‘Deja View’- 2020 Oscars Recap

February 20, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/ithacan-main/deja-view-2020-oscar-recap This episode of Deja View, host Rachael Weinberg invites DKA programming chair, Ciara Naughton to recap the 2020 Oscars. They talk about...

Growth on display at 92nd Oscars

By Elijah de Castro • February 12, 2020

At the 92nd Academy Awards, actress Jane Fonda dramatically paused briefly before announcing the Best Picture winner: “Parasite.” The announcement caused the audience to respond with excited cheers...

‘Deja View’- 2020 Oscar Predictions

February 6, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/ithacan-main/deja-view-2020-oscar-predictions This week, host Rachael Weinberg has on The Ithacan Life and Culture editors, Avery Alexander and Arleigh Rodgers, to talk about the...

Review: Movie is thrillingly unpredictable

By Arleigh Rodgers • November 6, 2019

To predict “Parasite” is to ask the impossible, like erasing a memory, turning backward in time or evading gravity. But writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s shrewd narrative is sharp and grim and, most...