Category: Film

Panel to discuss SETX’s film legacy

  The Lamar University Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast will sponsor two panels focusing on Southeast Texas film history, Feb. 26. A student session will be held at 2 p.m. in Landes Auditorium, and an open session will be held at 5 p.m. on the eighth floor…

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Oscar Preview video

A variation of my review for “Get Out,” which I posted on March 6, ran in the University Press Oscar preview, March 1. The class also made a video of our pics. Watch it below.

Oscar’s Best Picture: Get Out

“Get Out” deserves Best Picture not only for the fact that it’s a skillfully made horror film, but it highlights the accuracy of modern-day racism. All hell breaks loose when, Rose, played by Allison Williams, takes her first African American boyfriend, Chris, played by Daniel Kaluuya, to meet her claiming-to-be-progressive white parents, for the first…

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