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Photo: A portrait of Thato Mwosa, a Black women with braids tied up in a bun on the top of her head. She smiles for the camera while wearing a black shirt with floral embroidery.

FILM

COM’s Thato Mwosa Is Creating Short Films for Teens about Mental Health, Gender Identity

March 30, 2023

Image: Photo showing Keira Knightley, dressed as a 1960s woman with blonde hair tied back in a coif and wearing a burgundy wool jacket. She looks over her shoulder as she holds a payphone to her ear. Test to the left of her reads "Boston Strangler" in bold white font.

Film & TV

BU Alum With Tie to Boston Strangler Applauds Hulu’s “Myth”-Busting Movie

March 21, 2023

Photo: Movie poster for Scream VI movie. Various cast members looking in different directions in a V formation. Ghost face is in the middle/sky background. A cityscape is in the background, behind the test reading "Scream VI".

Movie Quiz

Who Is the Lucky Scream Superfan?

March 10, 2023

Film & TV

The 2023 Academy Awards Are Sunday Night: Here’s What to Watch For

March 8, 2023

Photo: Colorful movie poster for Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania. Features Ant-Man in the center and those in the movie all around in colorful blues, reds, pinks, and purples.

Film

We Have Your Friday Night Plans! How about Two Free Tickets to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?

February 16, 2023

State Farm Stadium is shown, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, in Glendale, Ariz. The stadium will host the NFL Super Bowl LVII football game on Feb. 12. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Film & TV

This Year’s Super Bowl Ads Are Relying on Humor and A-List Celebs Like Aaron Paul, Alicia Silverstone, and Jack Harlow

February 9, 2023

Collage: Images from the covers and poster for various Black works. From top to bottom, left to right: "Do the Right Thing " movie poster, "Batea" by the Colombian band Bejuco album cover, "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" book cover, "The Woman King" and "African Queens" shows posters, Festival of Afrofuturism promotional poster, "Watchmen" show poster, "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!" album cover, "Seizing Freedom" podcast art, and "gossypiin" by Ra Malika Imhotep book cover

Black History Month

Celebrate Black History Month with These Books, Films, Albums, and Podcasts

January 31, 2023

Khloe Kardashian, from left, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Kylie Jenner arrive at Cosmopolitan magazine's 50th birthday celebration on Oct. 12, 2015, in West Hollywood, Calif. The Kardashians are promising an all-access pass into their lives, again, when they hit screens April 14 with a new reality series, "The Kardashians," this time on Hulu. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Voices & Opinion

POV: Before You Decide to Keep Up with the Kardashians, Consider This

December 12, 2022

Wakanda Forever Movie Poster featuring cast pictures

Film & TV

Marvel Fans: How Good Are You? Try Your Hand at This Wakanda Forever Quiz to Win Free Tickets

November 10, 2022

A movie clapperboard and halloween decoration. Horror movie night.

Film & TV

A Crowdsourced List of Some of the Best Halloween Movie Classics

October 27, 2022

Photo: Angela Lansbury presented with an honorary degree by Jon Westling (Hon.’03), then BU president ad interim, at the University’s May 20,1990, Commencement. Lansbury stands on stage wearing a red ceremonial graduation gown as Westling stands behind a podium to her right in a black set of robes.

Film & TV

Angela Lansbury’s Surprising Boston University Ties

October 13, 2022

Spooky season is here, and serial killer Michael Myers is on the loose again. Halloween Ends is out Friday and sets the stage for one final showdown between Myers and Laurie Strode. Image courtesy of Universal Pictures

In the City

Our Lucky Halloween Ends Quiz Winner Revealed

October 13, 2022

Collage: (left) Photo of Lilia Buckingham. A young white woman with long blonde hair poses in front of a blue Hocus Pocus 2 backdrop. She wears a light, sequined gown and matching gloves. (right) Movie Poster for the Hocus Pocus 2 movie. Poster features headshots of the three main witches and the teen protagonists below them in a purple and black theme. Gold words below all of them read "Hocus Pocus 2".

Film & TV

BU Student Stars in Hocus Pocus 2

October 11, 2022

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

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