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Youngkwang Shin ’19

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The Common’s 12th Issue Shines With Emotive Relevance and Unity

The Common’s 12th Issue Shines With Emotive Relevance and Unity

Splashed with a soft, cotton red and superimposed by a lonesome ice skate, the front flap of the 12th issue of “The Common” speaks of a coolly detached professionalism that attends the small, physical body of this publication in sight and feel. It is specifically that misleading nonchalance that may

“Lights Out” Director David Sanberg Follows James Wan’s Classic Style

“Lights Out” Director David Sanberg Follows James Wan’s Classic Style

“Light Out” is a movie directed by David F. Sandberg in the style and tone of horror’s most marketable voice, James Wan. Wan’s two “Conjuring” movies may easily be the most influential horror movies to have graced the screen. The “Conjuring” movies are variations on the same tune,

“Train to Busan” Surpasses Genre but Dissapoints Sang-ho Fans

“Train to Busan” Surpasses Genre but Dissapoints Sang-ho Fans

“Train to Busan” is a zombie film that yet again explores our collective anxiety that, just maybe, the person sitting next to you who looks, smells and sounds nothing out of the ordinary may succumb to the universal violent impulse to bite your face off. And like many of its

“Everybody Wants Some!!” Excites With Brisk Pace, Realistic Period-Detail

“Everybody Wants Some!!” Excites With Brisk Pace, Realistic Period-Detail

Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” is about a group of college athlete bros attending six parties over the course of three days before classes begin. It is as if the high school students in Linklater’s comedy gold “Dazed and Confused” are now in college, and is probably the

Hood’s “Eye in the Sky” Reveals the Moral Ambiguities of Wartime

There is probably no premise in existence more charged with contradictory politics and moral ambiguity than that of a war film. Many directors and screenwriters know that embracing this complexity may hamper the accessibility of the film and choose to evade it through different methods. Some, like Francis Ford Coppola’

Laszlo Neme’s “Son of Saul” Wins Oscar for Best Foreign Film

Laszlo Neme’s “Son of Saul” Wins Oscar for Best Foreign Film

It is impossible to make a film that accurately portrays the Holocaust as a whole. Its horror is too vast, and its characters too numerous. Cinema’s only available shortcut is to illuminate individual traumas that compose the darkness of the times. Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece “Schindler’s List,” perhaps

Lenny Abrahamson’s “Room” is Deemed a Somewhat Unsatisfying Success

Lenny Abrahamson’s “Room” is Deemed a Somewhat Unsatisfying Success

There is a certain aesthetic that defines the seasonal outpour of movies that more cynical moviegoers scorn as “Oscar-bait”. The camerawork in such films travels the middle road between subtlety and officiousness, and it is just subdued enough to be impressive. The script is usually open to a range of