"Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters"
Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton
Rating: R
Running Time: 88 minutes
Once upon a time (read: 2004), Universal Studios brought the nostalgia of horror icons into the action/adventure genre and created “Van Helsing,” a film that performed well in the box office but not with the critics.
Street takes an inside look into the little intellectual bookstore nestled between Pike and Chi O at 3920 Spruce. Classical pianist and owner Debbie Sanford C’71 offers us tissues for our snowy sniffles and talks books, arts and crafts and Penn.
Kelcey Ayer belts out the opening lines of “Hummingbird,” Local Natives’ latest album, with such impassioned honesty that one might wonder if he’ll last to the end of the set.
Cue the eye roll when you hear everyone’s favorite slightly emo, girl power indie band has turned the synthpop route...just like everyone else, it seems, and to mixed effect.
ARTIST PROFILE: LAINE GODSEY
Name and Year: Laine Godsey, second year MFA candidate
Hometown: Midland, TX
Major: Interdisciplinary Fine Arts
Website: www.lainegodsey.net
Street: How did you enter the art world?
Laine Godsey: I was born into the art world.
"No"
Directed by: Pablo Larrain
Starring: Gael Garcia Barnel, Alfredo Castro, Luis Gnecco, Antonia Zegers
Rating: R
Running time: 118 minutes
In 1988, Chile was divided by two referendum campaigns—the “yes” camp, which aimed to keep Augusto Pinochet in power, and the “no” camp, which aimed to to kick him out.
Street asked Panhel president Jessica Stokes and IFC president Andrew Turell to rank the movies in our "My Big Fat Greek Movie" feature from most accurate to least when it comes to depicting Greek life.
"Mama"
Directed by: Andres Muschietti
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster–Waldau, Daniel Kash, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 100 min.
Every trailer for "Mama" brags about producer Guillermo Del Toro’s participation, but don't walk in expecting “Pan's Laybrinth." Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty") and Nikolaj Coster–Waldau star as Annabel and Lucas, a hipster couple who gains custody of Lucas' nieces, who have been living in the woods since their parents' deaths with their ghostly guardian, Mama.