Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…
Movie Review: The Promise
Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use it as a backdrop to a schmaltzy…
From the Record Crate: Public Enemy – “Yo! Bum Rush The Show” (1987)
Before Kendrick Lamar, before Kanye West, before Jay-Z, and even a year or two before N.W.A, music witnessed one of the first socially conscious hip hop groups ever, Public Enemy. Lead by legends Chuck D, and Flavor Flav, Public Enemy…
Movie Review: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (shot in classical black-and-white) recalls the old down-and-out boxer stories that enchanted old Hollywood. The myth of uneducated and unsophisticated vagrants, blessed only with the talent of giving and taking a beating,…
Movie Review: The Lost City of Z
When Werner Herzog traveled into the Amazon rainforest, he found chaos and madness. But when James Gray ventured into it for his film The Lost City of Z, he found poetry and purpose. Based on David Grann’s book of the…
The new ‘Atomic Blonde’ trailer is visually explosive!
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: creating movie trailers in an art that only few master. Not only do you have to get the attention of a large audience in only a couple minutes, but also make…
Movie Review: Your Name
Visually scrumptious and powerful once the full bloom of emotions encompasses you, director Makoto Shinkai of Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second fame has delivered yet another stunner in body swap film, Your Name. However, be wary of synopsis because beyond…