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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

Collage: Images of 5 Black media arranged in two rows. Tp row of 3 shows cover of "The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States", podcast art for "The Read" podcast, and poster for "A Black Lady Sketch Show". Second Row has promotional artwork for "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" and album cover of Koffee's "Gifted".

Juneteenth

Celebrate Juneteenth with These 15 Films, Podcasts, TV Shows, Albums, and Books

June 15, 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

Janet Lewin helps filmmakers develop the special effects technology needed to bring characters—like the Star Wars droid BB-8—to life on screen. Here Lewin and BB-8 sit in a cinema

TV & Film

Lucasfilm’s Janet Lewin Talks Star Wars and Technology

June 6, 2022

Photo of a blossoming lilac bush, with clusters of small purple, pink and white flowers, and large green, heart-shaped leaves.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: May 5 to 8

May 4, 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 Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin and Daniel Durant in a scene from CODA. They are sitting around a table eating dinner. Kotsur wears a red sox baseball cap. Matlin smiles widely as Durant shows something to the family on his phone.

Voices & Opinion

POV: CODA’s Oscar Wins Represent an Historic Moment

April 5, 2022

Composite image of the following movie posters on a dark gray background: Belfast, CODA, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story"

Film

Encanto, West Side Story, King Richard: Let’s Talk Oscars

March 23, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

Movie poster for the Batman 2022 movie. The poster features the new cast, Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne (Batman), Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle (Catwoman), and Paul Dano as Edward Nashton (The Riddler). The poster has dramatic lighting with a yellow/orange tinge. At the top, "unmask the truth" is written in creepy red letters.

Movie Quiz

Results Are In! Time to Unmask The Batman Trivia Winner

March 3, 2022

Image: Bottom half of the Give or Take movie poster, featuring actors actors Norbert Leo Butz and Jamie Effros in a still of the film. Words underneath read "Give or Take, You can't choose family"

Film & TV

COM Alums Helm New Indie Dramedy Give or Take

March 2, 2022

COM Alums Helm New Indie Dramedy Give or Take