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Photo: Black and white photo shows sunset traffic passing Boston University on Storrow Drive in 1964. A large lit building is shown next to a whizzing highway as old school cars are parked on the lawn nearby.

Boston

Alum Remembers Navigating BU at the Time of the Boston Strangler: “A Magical and Frightening Time All at Once”

April 4, 2023

Photo: A group shot of the winners of the Redstone Film Festival. From left, a short white man in a gray blazer and a blue button-up dress shirt. Next, a taller Southern Asian man in a stream-lined tan suit and a black t-shirt. Next to him, a Southern Asian woman in a black, lace top and a floral maxi skirt. And lastly, the person on the right is a Sourthern Asian woman with a black mock-neck top and a silk, grey dress.

REDSTONE FILM FESTIVAL

2023 Redstone Film Festival Honors Best of COM Student Filmmakers

April 3, 2023

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

Photo: Hong Chau arrives at the 95th Annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon. An Asian woman wearing a floral, half-toned blue and green dress. She stands in front of a dark wall with a gold letter sign that reads "Oscars95"

TV & Film

The Whale’s Hong Chau (COM’01) Is Nominated for an Oscar This Weekend

March 9, 2023

Film & TV

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

March 8, 2023

Photo: A flat-lay of the Mei Mei menu. Small, rectangular trays of dumplings, bao buns, and more are featured in an aesthetic layout, highlighted by the sun.

Weekender

The Weekender: February 23 to 26

February 22, 2023

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Bruce Willis attends the "Motherless Brooklyn" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, in New York. People in Mississippi’s capital city are being told to expect downtown street closures and explosions for the filming of an action movie that stars Willis. A bank heist movie called “A Day to Die” has been filming in Jackson in April 2021, with Willis shooting scenes in several places, including a street outside the Governor’s Mansion. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Dementia

What Now for Bruce Willis after Actor’s Recent Dementia Diagnosis?

February 17, 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

Photo: Deena Sheldon filming a Sunday Night Football game in Green Bay in 2008. A white woman with long, curly dirty blonde hair stands behind a large professional video camera on a high platform. She smiles as the photo is shot and a crowd of Green Bay Packers fans cheer in the stadium behind her.

TV & Film

Alum Deena Sheldon Inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame

February 8, 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

Music supervisor Thomas Golubić (COM’93) says he sometimes gets to build character playlists for actors and directors to help them think about the characters they play in a certain way. Photo by Ashley West Leonard

TV & Film

What’s It Like to Be a Music Supervisor for a TV Show? Just Ask Thomas Golubić (COM’93)

January 23, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

Beautiful new Christmas tree ornaments

Holiday Movies

A Crowdsourced List of the Best Holiday Movie Classics

December 9, 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: Jenn Lindsay poses for a photo. A white woman with wavy brown hair and wearing a white collared shirt and yellow jacket poses in front of a blue wall and looks to the left.

Diverse Film & TV

Opening Doors: Jenn Lindsay (GRS’18), Founder of So Fare Films

October 25, 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

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 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

How Did You Do on Our Thor: Love and Thunder Trivia Quiz?