Elon Watches: Turner Theatre fills weekend slate with mediocre films
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Since opening in December 2016, Turner Theatre has provided Elon University with an on-campus movie theater experience available to all students, faculty, staff and families. Films ranging from documentaries to blockbuster features are screened on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and are decided by Turner Theatre management with the help of the Student Union Board Cinema Committee. Elon Watches is where Elon News Network previews the films to be screened the following weekend, offering insight into the moviegoing opportunities available.
Since opening in December 2016, Turner Theatre has provided Elon University with an on-campus movie theater experience available to all students, faculty, staff and families. Films ranging from documentaries to blockbuster features are screened on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and are decided by Turner Theatre management with the help of the Student Union Board Cinema Committee. Elon Watches is where Elon News Network previews the films to be screened the following weekend, offering insight into the moviegoing opportunities available.
“BlacKkKlansman”
Hispanics are currently the largest ethnic minority in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of 2017, roughly 58 million people in the United States identify as Hispanic, about 18 percent of the total population. But racially, Hispanics almost don’t exist in the United States.
Hollywood sees the box office success and critical acclaim surrounding Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and pats itself on the back. And after the #OscarsSoWhite and #OscarsSoMale controversies of the past two years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences basks in praise for its inclusion of black and female filmmakers in this year’s Oscars nominations. But just because the glass is half full, doesn’t mean the fight is over. There’s still one group that time and time again continues to be grossly underrepresented in film — Latinos and Hispanics.
Venezuela is currently in a state of humanitarian crisis, economic crisis, democratic crisis and just about any other form of crisis under the sun. But the only people that seem to be talking about the falling nation are either people living there or people who are from there. Having been born in Venezuela, and still having a significant amount of family there, it’s important for me to follow current events no matter how depressing they may get.