University of Wyoming students wore pink to welcome actor and comedian Daniel Franzese, who plays Damian in the 2004 film “Mean Girls.” On April 19, 2024, Franzese visited the Wyoming Union for an event hosted by 7220 Entertainment. At the event, students were able to watch the original “Mean Girls” movie and listen to commentary…
The Honors College hosted film producer and director, Oualid Mouaness, for their Middle East Film Masterclass. Mouaness shared his experience in the film world and how he was able to produce his most famous short films and music videos including “1982” and “The Rifle, The Jackal, The Wolf, and The Boy.” Mouaness’s most recent short…
On Thursday Jan. 25, the University welcomed Benjamin Patton, the grandson of General George S. Patton, who served in WWII. Ben Patton began the Patton Veterans Project (PVP) in 2011. According to the PVP website, Patton thought that the “process of collaborating to create visual narratives this way could also benefit veterans returning from combat…
The Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources is hosting the Inaugural Wild and Working Lands Film Festival on May 5 at the Gryphon Theatre. The films featured at the festival look to explore the intricacies of our region, including the wild areas of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, along with other surrounding…
Native American Heritage month kicked off with a pre-release screening of the PBS documentary, “Home from School: The Children of Carlisle” last Thursday, Nov. 4. The event included the screening in the auditorium of the College of Arts & Sciences and was followed by a Q&A panel with four members of production. Panel members included…
Kylee Harless Online Editor When people say marriage is complicated, there is no better example than the Netflix movie Marriage Story. The movie is about a couple who are trying to get through the crazy lives of an actor and a director. The film will take you through the journey of Charlie and Nichole Barber,…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu “Deadpool” takes tongue-in-cheek to a whole, other-worldly level. Instead, it takes the tongue, attaches a samurai sword to it, gouges it through the cheek causing blood to spray everywhere and then laughs gleefully as it skips down the lane. In short, “Deadpool” is one crazy-f***ing movie. And it’s all thanks to the…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu Walking out of The Revenant there is one major takeaway, wrapped around one lingering, awe-inspiring question: How the hell did he do that? “He” of course refers to director Alejandro G. Inarritu and “that” would be every single frame of this epic tale. The task seems so tremendous that Neil DeGrasse Tyson…
Like “Interstellar” before it, “The Martian” is the kind of movie where people will walk out going, “it was good, but that could totally never happen.” Oh are you one of the renowned astrophysics of the world, like Kip Thorne, who consults on these motion pictures? No? Your knowledge begins and ends with freshman physics?…
With every movie I see her in, Emily Blunt solidifies her spot in my heart as the most talented person in Hollywood. “Sicario” does not change this one bit. Set in various locations throughout the southern United States and Mexico, “Sicario” follows FBI agent Kate Macer, played by Emily Blunt, as she works with a…
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp What it is about–Set before the events of the Wet Hot American Summer film, this show takes a satirical look at prequels by further exploring life at Camp Firewood. Why you should watch it–Though all the performers have aged 14 years since the release of the original…
“Fantastic Four” is the worst superhero movie to be made in the last decade, everything about it is so lopsided and gangly I’m surprised anything in this movie actually makes sense. Something that people don’t really seem to understand about the Fantastic Four is that they’re not really superheroes. Not in the same way the…
