By JACOB TRASK Spring is the off-season of film. The summer months boast expensive blockbusters and sequel films, and fall marks the beginning of Oscar season, when the best films of the year begin to emerge. But last year, the trend seemed to break, and the early months produced a couple of the year’s best …
By JACOB TRASK Martin McDonagh’s latest film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is easily one of the most intriguing films of 2017 and the last two months. In a relatively meager award season, the film has easily stood out among its competitors: Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, The Post and a handful of others. Three …
By JACOB TRASK The film department at UT is a quietly overlooked branch of our school, where creative young minds spend countless hours putting together their best attempts at experimental films. Students from classes like narrative and documentary production spend entire semester’s putting together a 10-minute project, a process that can be incredibly demanding and …
By JACOB TRASK I was almost eight years old when I went to Tropicana Field for the first time. There aren’t too many things I remember in such great detail that I’m positive I’ll remember them forever, but my first encounter with this bulky, white dome of a stadium was a memorable one. Walking up …
by JACOB TRASK Pornography is a sensitive subject, especially when it’s the driving topic of a film or a television show. Movies about porn are daring and risky. There’s nothing glamorous about the industry, and any film that portrays anything other than the grimy roots of young stars and the dark, dramatic situations that come …
