Holocaust survivor films have been around for a while, so, while the stories are important to tell, they may seem over done. However, “The Brutalist” brings something new to the table. This story about the...

AN: Spoilers ahead! Recently, Brandeis presented “Argonautika”, directed by Dalya Lessem Elnecave and written by Mary Zimmerman in partnership with “Hold Thy Peace”. It is, as the name suggests, a recreation of the ancient Greek...

The book that has captured the BookTok imagination this week is “Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins. It’s part of the “Hunger Games” universe, and for purposes of this review, I am going to...

My dear Hoot readers, I’m writing to you as a changed man. Last month I ventured to a holy city, visited spiritually significant sites and fostered a deep connection to my culture. This city was...

Rule 8: Do not insert flashbacks, POV changes, or interludes in the first ~20,000 words of your story. So after all those high and mighty words about greater concepts and the nature of the narrative...

A couple weeks ago, I was musing about what would happen if the Pope dies and a new Pope needs to be selected. A friend looked at me, shocked. “You haven’t watched “Conclave”?!” she demanded....

Eight years. Eight years ago. March 3rd, 2017. 2025. Eight years ago it was around my Bar Mitzvah, and we moved earlier that year from my home of ten years. My new home still had...

From March 7 to March 9, the Brandeis Department of Theater Arts staged “Intractable Woman,” written by Italian playwright Stefano Massini and translated into English by Paula Wing. It tells the story of journalist Anna...

On March 2, the 97th Academy Awards took place. This awards show is entertainment’s biggest night, which means that some of the most notable celebrities are in attendance, and they are always dressed to the...

If you know me, you know I’m not a horror movie girl. In fact, one of my first articles for The Hoot was a list of “spooky” books for horror-movie haters like myself. However, I...

On March 2, the biggest night of the year for Hollywood took place: the 97th Annual Academy Awards, more commonly known as the Oscars. 2024 was an exciting year for film, and the Oscars are...

You were born facing the wrong direction. Later you joked it was because you didn’t want to see the world as you came into it. You said that would have been too much.  You cried...

This past weekend, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, where I experienced the opening night premiere of Paul Feig’s “Another Simple Favor,” starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry...

Over this February break I took some time to play a game that has been rotting in my backlog: “Hotel Dusk: Room 215” for the Nintendo DS. Developed by the now defunct Cing Inc. and...

2024 was filled with many sensational films, and now is the time to recognize the cream of the crop. The 97th Academy Awards are coming up on March 2nd, and there are a lot of...

I do not consider myself a particularly good writer. Like many, I’ve dipped my toes into the water once or twice, but never managed anything cohesive more than 5,000 words long. However, I have read...

You know when you’re having a stressful time, and you just need that hit of nostalgia? Yeah, me too. And thanks to my job as Arts Editor, I can search for that nostalgia in my...

In “The Lost Story” by Meg Shaffer, two boys, Jeremy and Rafe, go missing for six months after getting lost on a school field trip to a forest in West Virginia. During that time, they...