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The Spectator

Black Bag (2025): the spy who really loves his wife

Maximo Bratter ’25, A&E Editor May 12, 2025

Black Bag (2025) is not a new thematic endeavor for director-writer-editor Steven Soderbergh, but it is indeed fresh. In Soderbergh’s second cinematic entry of 2025 (after Presence), we meet George...

What’’s underlying in The Underlying Chris?

What’’s underlying in The Underlying Chris?

Sylvia Woodbury ’27, Staff Writer May 1, 2025

The reigning theme of Will Eno’s 2019 play The Underlying Chris—fluidly staged by Hamilton’s Theater Department as directed by Professor Craig Latrell—is rendered clear from the get-go. If...

Sinners (2025) genre-bends but does not break

Sinners (2025) genre-bends but does not break

Emma DiGiacomo ’25, A&E Contributor April 24, 2025

A soulful croon and strumming guitar set the dance floor literally alight in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) as spirits rise from the dead to jive alongside the living. The ghosts don outfits spanning...

Live from Hamilton, it’s Emil Wakim!

Live from Hamilton, it’s Emil Wakim!

Emma DiGiacomo ’25, A&E Contributor April 17, 2025

The Events Barn was buzzing with energy on Monday evening in anticipation of the final CAB Comedy show of the semester. With a line stretching past Sadove, students piled onto the stairs and lined...

Netflix’s Adolescence and the new reality of hypermasculinity

Netflix’s Adolescence and the new reality of hypermasculinity

Carlisle West ’25, Staff Writer April 10, 2025

It is safe to say that at first glance, no one would immediately label Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) as a murderer. A mere 13-year-old with rosy cheeks, a coy smile and a love for outer space, he doesn’t...

The Studio misses its own points

The Studio misses its own points

Max Bratter ’25, A&E Editor April 10, 2025

“Oh, God, it’s so humiliating,” Patty Leigh (Catherine O’Hara) cries at the door of her Architectural Digest mansion in front of her studio-head successor Matt Remick (Seth Rogen). She sports...

Playboi Carti’s MUSIC: big, bloated and boring

Playboi Carti’s MUSIC: big, bloated and boring

Ian Brassard ’27, Staff Writer April 3, 2025

After four and a half years of waiting, the highly anticipated follow-up to rapper Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red (2020) was finally released this past March. A long wait comes with grand expectations...

Caamp’s Somewhere (2025) is definitely worth the listen

Caamp’s Somewhere (2025) is definitely worth the listen

Lucy Leness ’26, A&E Contributor April 3, 2025

Ohio-based folk band Caamp recently released their third extended play (EP), titled Somewhere, about a month ago. The EP consists of four tracks, including their single “Let Things Go,” which was...

American Events: an ongoing national tradition

American Events: an ongoing national tradition

Maximo Bratter ’25, A&E Editor March 6, 2025

The 2025 Oscars are in the rearview mirror, along with the Grammys and the Super Bowl. The world is globalized in the economic sense, but more so in a cultural one. These aforementioned occasions perform...

Monsterization: categorizing people as “abnormal” from the Renaissance to the modern day

Sylvia Woodbury ’27, Staff Writer February 27, 2025

In a recent online lecture, the award-winning “historian of art, science, and ideas” Surekha Davies presented a manuscript illustration of the 16th-century courtier Antonietta Gonsalvus. Due to...

Reflecting on Chappell Roan’s WHCL interview

Reflecting on Chappell Roan’s WHCL interview

Max Bratter ’25, A&E Editor February 20, 2025

It is 2025 and Chappell Roan is the proud owner of a Grammy for Best New Artist. The six total nominations that Roan received, all of which were part of her first time being recognized by the Academy,...

Battle of the Bands offers a glimpse at C&C Day

Battle of the Bands offers a glimpse at C&C Day

Bryna Jekogian ’25, Staff Writer February 20, 2025

Hamilton College hosted its annual Battle of the Bands in a competition to determine which group will perform before the headliner on Class and Charter (C&C) day. At the Annex, students came to...

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