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Photo of Nora Kempner (center) a 17-year-old high school student from Medway, Mass., who is enrolled in the BU Summer Theatre Institute’s design program. Kempner is a young White woman with wavy hair, pulled back, wearing a black t-shirt and blue shorts. She sits at a table with lighting controls and a screen and smiles as she shows her lighting scene design with classmates. Other students can be seen seated behind her in the darkened room.

Theater

CFA Summer Program Gives High Schoolers an Intro to College-Level Theater

August 3, 2022

Photo of Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). At left, Portman has long blonde hair, and wears what looks like a bodice and skirt of armor. She also wears a red cape. Thor has long blonde hair and a beard; he also wears a full-body armor suit and red cape, and has muscular arms. The stand in front of a brightly-lit field.

Movie Quiz

How Did You Do on Our Thor: Love and Thunder Trivia Quiz?

July 6, 2022

Screenshot of BUTV10 program Amber. Two young AAPI women wear black blazers and sit behind a news desk. At left, is Dalvina Bian, COM'23, who has brown hair and wears red lipstick. At right is Chunyi Xu, COM'23, who has black hair and smiles slightly. Behind them, on screen, a TV reads "Amber" in English and presumably in Chinese characters. The "A" of Amber is a broadcast towere and the design also features the figure of a chinese women in the lower right.

Film & TV

BUTV10 Wins Big—Again

June 20, 2022

Chris Pratt outstretching his hand toward a CGI dinosaur in Jurassic World Dominion

Film & TV

How Did You Do on Our Jurassic World Dominion Trivia Quiz?

June 8, 2022

AAPI Heritage Month

Books, Podcasts, and Movies to Explore for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May 10, 2022

The red-carpet event, held at the Tsai Performance Center April 15, attracted a sizable, at-times boisterous, crowd. “It’s a lot of fun to do these award shows live, especially if Will Smith isn’t on the guest list,” quipped Bill Braudis, a COM assistant professor of film and television. Here a large crowd is pictured watching short films in a cinema at the 2022 Redstones

Film & TV

Redstone Film Festival: A Triumphant In-Person Return

April 16, 2022

Photo of Will Smith, right, slapping presenter Chris Rock on stage before presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Both men are dressed in suits. Rock winces in pain and shock, and Smith's hand is at the end of its swing.

Communications

A PR Crisis: How to Manage Will Smith’s Oscars Slap

March 28, 2022

Composite image of the following movie posters on a dark gray background: Belfast, CODA, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story"

Film

Encanto, West Side Story, King Richard: Let’s Talk Oscars

March 23, 2022

Movie poster for the Batman 2022 movie. The poster features the new cast, Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne (Batman), Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle (Catwoman), and Paul Dano as Edward Nashton (The Riddler). The poster has dramatic lighting with a yellow/orange tinge. At the top, "unmask the truth" is written in creepy red letters.

Movie Quiz

Results Are In! Time to Unmask The Batman Trivia Winner

March 3, 2022

Image: Bottom half of the Give or Take movie poster, featuring actors actors Norbert Leo Butz and Jamie Effros in a still of the film. Words underneath read "Give or Take, You can't choose family"

Film & TV

COM Alums Helm New Indie Dramedy Give or Take

March 2, 2022

Spider-man stands back to back with Dr Strange in front of an urban cityscape

Film & TV

To Start Celebrating the Holidays Early, How Does Free Tickets to Spider-Man: No Way Home Sound?

December 17, 2021

Image of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife Poster. Poster features a drawing of the backs of 6 people coming of a Ghostbusters car as a neon strike of green and yellow lightening lights the sky and hits the ground.

Movie Quiz

Dying to Know Who Won Our Ghostbusters: Afterlife Quiz?

November 18, 2021

Still from the horror film Rosemary's baby. Rosemary stands in a blue night gown with a knife in her hand over a black baby cradle.

Books

Need a Halloween Flick? BU’s Regina Hansen Has Edited a New Book on Satan in Cinema

October 28, 2021

Listen Now

Who Will Be the Next James Bond?

October 21, 2021

screenshot from new film Mass: (from left to right) Both looking distressed, Ann Dowd holds a bouquet and stands next to Reed Birney in hospital doorway

Film & TV

In His New Film, Reed Birney Finds the Role of a Lifetime

October 8, 2021

Daniel Craig in a scene from the James Bond film, No Time To Die.

Film & TV

No Time to Die: Want Free Tickets to the Latest James Bond Film?

October 8, 2021

Entertainment

Movies, TV Shows, and Podcasts to Explore for Hispanic Heritage Month and Beyond

October 7, 2021

Awards

COM Grad Student Wins Humanitas Prize College Screenwriting Fellowship

September 27, 2021

Photo of Director Ken Schneider (left) working with director of photography Roberto Chile at the home of Cuban artist Fuster for the film, Los Hermanos/The Brothers, which is one of the nine films screening during BLIFF. Schneider has brown curly hair and a gotee and holds a tripod. Chile holds a video camera and both men look off to their left. They are in a building covered by mosaic designs.

Film & TV

Boston’s Latino International Film Festival, Kicking Off Today, Helmed by BU Alum

September 24, 2021

Composite image. At left, there is a portrait of Judith Heumann, smiling. She wears purple-ish glasses that match with her sweater, which has a geometric pattern. Her hair is goldish; Judith is white and is a wheelchair user. At right is cover of her book "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist". The title is in bright yellow font. The cover is a black and white photo of Judith sitting in her wheelchair with a pant suit on and her hand on her face. She smiles and looks into a mirror. At the bottom, “Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner” is written.

Disability

Diversity & Inclusion’s Learn More Series: Renowned Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann to Speak

September 13, 2021

Diversity & Inclusion’s Learn More Series: Renowned Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann to Speak

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