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Occasional stylistic choices, like a saccharine soundtrack mostly culled from the 2001 French film “Amélie,” also slightly encumber the production. Stark’s character is already painted as sweet, which she plays to full effect, so the added cuteness comes across...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Menagerie’ Shines Despite Added Sap | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Also impressive is Jerome Stephens Jr., who plays the young Simba. Though only a skinny boy of nine, he manages to pack a musical punch. While his lines largely read as formulaic and somewhat trite (“I just want to be brave like you, Dad,?...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Lion King' Tour Reigns Supreme | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

The acting is similarly excellent. DiCaprio, who continues to grow as an actor under Scorsese’s tutelage, turns in one of his more powerful performances. Though his character may seem to fall into the standard trope of a hardened hero plauged by a traumatic past, DiCaprio effectively portrays...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shutter Island | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

In the summer of 2009, film student Alexandra E. Zimbler ’10 visited her grandmother in Saint-Malo, Brittany, to interview her for her documentary thesis film in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). She had planned to make a film about her grandmother’s life in...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind and Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Scenic Route | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

So just how badly could these assaults on Brown's character impact on his chances of victory? "If the story carries on and you get a new and fixed public sense of Brown, that he's a bully and he's emotionally out of control, that could be immensely damaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a Bully? | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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