SIU Reviews
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SIU Reviews is a regular series on WSIU Radio featuring movie reviews and critiques by faculty and students in the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Latest Episodes
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Get Out is a 2017 satirical horror film about a white woman who takes her African American boyfriend home to meet her family. As film critic Walter Metz…
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The 2016 drama Moonlight won Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards. The contemporary African-American coming of age story also won Oscars for Best…
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New on DVD this week is the 2016 Sci-Fi drama Arrival. The movie is nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted…
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The 2016 crime drama Gold is loosely based on the true story of a mid-1990's mining scandal in Indonesia.In this edition of SIU Reviews, film critic…
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The 2016 Iranian-French film The Salesman is nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. It also makes its U.S. debut this week. Film critic Davey…
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New this week on DVD is the 2016 period drama The Light Between Oceans. It tells the story of a World War I veteran and his wife who together, run a…
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Hidden Figures is a 2016 biographical drama that tells the story of an African-American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for NASA. In this…
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The 2016 romantic musical comedy La La Land tells the story of Mia, an aspiring actress; and Sebastian, a jazz musician as they navigate life in the City…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first installment of the so-called Star Wars Anthology series. It fills in the timeline between Revenge of the Sith…
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The 2016 horror film Blair Witch and the historical drama Denial are new on DVD this week. SIU Reviews takes a closer look at both movies.Blair WitchIn…