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...

I suppose I should preface this review with a few disclaimers. First of all, I have not actually completed “Factorio”—I got the game fairly recently and just haven’t had the time or energy to finish...

2024 was quite the year for music. The Grammy Awards aired on Sunday, Feb. 2 and had a lot of interesting results, both in my mind and in a large part of the music community....

“Anora” (2024), despite its disappointing Golden Globes performance (where it lost in all five of its nominated categories), has had a monumental weekend, sweeping the top prizes at the Critics Choice Awards, Directors Guild of...

Early on in my freshman year of college, the first season of “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” a series about four freshmen in college, came out. I was instantly hooked, and was glad I...

There really isn’t anything like live Shakespeare. At least, there isn’t for me. I try to seek out as many productions of live Shakespeare as I can, and last year, I was lucky enough to...