by Anna Haas ‘23 Two years after the first installment was released, Enola Holmes 2 hit viewers’ screens on November 4. A Netflix original series, the first movie followed young Enola, played by Millie Bobby Brown, as she investigated the disappearance of her mother, Eudoria, played by Helena Bonham Carter. Along the way, Enola makes the acquaintance of young Lord … Read More
by Lauren Frank ‘23 On October 21, Taylor Swift crashed Spotify with the release of her 10th studio album Midnights. If one new album wasn’t already surprising enough, Swift announced the release of seven more songs, Midnights (3am edition), after she released the original tracklist. Within hours, Swift’s album became the most streamed album on Spotify in one day, reaching … Read More
by Maggie Reese ‘24 As TikTok has become increasingly influential, the #booktok subculture emerged in recent years. Colleen Hoover became a TikTok sensation with more than one billion tags that laid the path for her to become a #1 New York Times bestseller with a Goodreads award-winning book with over a million reviews. As Hoover’s 2016 book It Ends with … Read More
by Genevieve Mayle ‘23 After its opening episodes, Chainsaw Man has set the stage to become one of the most watchable dark fantasy anime of the season. MAPPA, a renowned Japanese animation studio famous for animating Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan: The Final Season, has decided to take on recreating this famed manga, which had won the Harvey Award … Read More
by Liam Trump ‘24 On a South Korean mountaintop, two detectives are scaling its side, intent on surveying the scene of a new presumed murder. Reaching the summit and nearly out of breath, Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) and his partner Soo-wan (Go Kyung-pyo) make it upon the crime scene. The camera cuts to a wide shot as the detectives stand atop … Read More
by Connor Pugh ‘24 The 2008 release of Iron Man marked the beginning of what would become 14 long years of near complete domination of the film industry by superhero films, and shows little sign of stopping anytime soon. Warner Bros. arrived late to the superhero film scene, releasing the first film in the DCEU (DC Extended Universe), Man of … Read More
by Aidan Therrien ‘23 This year, Sherwood’s theater program is taking on a challenge as Director Elizabeth Kominski and the cast will be presenting Legally Blonde, a 2001 film that was turned into a Broadway musical. Containing complicated choreography, large sets, difficult music for the pit, and some of the most daunting vocal parts on Broadway, Legally Blonde is a … Read More
by Dasun Panapitiya ‘24 Ti West effectively cultivates the character of Pearl (Mia Goth) from her original appearance in the film, X. The prequel movie, Pearl, follows the titular character about 70 years before her most recent murderous rampage in the same barn home from X. She attempts to find independence from those holding her captive, like her strict mother … Read More
by Audrey Farris ‘25 On October 1, thousands of people spent their days in rain ponchos enjoying live performances from artists like Mitski and Lorde at ‘All Things Go Music Festival’ held at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Despite the light showers continuing late into the night, All Things Go was the biggest it had ever been, selling out … Read More
by Cailin Russell ‘23 The Woman King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, is based on a true story about an all-female warrior group that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th-19th centuries. Actress Viola Davis stars as Nanisca, a general who trains the Agojie to fight the Europeans and some Africans that had kidnapped Dahomey people to sell … Read More