by McKenna Scherer | Oct 15, 2019 | Previews
By McKenna Scherer and Mina Anderson A visually and musically dazzling film, The Greatest Showman truly thrives off of its original screenplay and soundtrack. Based on the life of show business visionary P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman depicts the struggles of...
by McKenna Scherer | May 1, 2019 | Criticism, Left, Reviews
Released in the spring of 2018 from director Andrea Nevins, Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie sheds a new, modern light on a decade-old icon: The Barbie Doll. A documentary first released at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City April 25, 2018 and then on popular...
by McKenna Scherer | Mar 18, 2019 | Issues, Left
Hello and welcome to a new issue of POVwinona! To refresh your feed after WSU’s Spring Break, this issue focuses on documentary films featured at this year’s Frozen River Film Festival in Winona. We could not help but further celebrate yet another fantastic...
by McKenna Scherer | Mar 18, 2019 | Criticism, Right
“Bring me your mistakes.” In 2018’s Beneath the Ink, director Cy Dodsen films tattoo artist Billy Joe White and his Red Rose Tattoo Studio in Southeastern Ohio, sharing their story of “erasing the hate” that has seemed to envelope Zanesville, Ohio–and the...
by McKenna Scherer | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
A seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner, James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens was everything people wanted and more following 1979’s Alien. Launching the standard for all sequels far above what was typically expected, the action-and-alien-focused sequel came at a...
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