Ashley Davis is an undergraduate staff editor and contributing writer from Burbank, California. A playwright and cultural critic, her journalistic practice is concerned primarily with film, theater and the avant-garde. She is a visual and media arts major at Emerson College.
Written and directed by Ashley Monet Long and produced by Emerson’s own Mercutio Troupe, “Jamie Has A Bomb” centers the eclectic and mechanically-apt teenager Jamie (Maya Smith), who builds a bomb with the intent to self-detonate, and her pet goldfish Judas (Darrell Mondaine), who becomes determined to prevent her untimely suicide.
CANNES — If you, like me, have a soft spot for “character acting,” John Prine and a general partiality for films that make you itch just looking at them, Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” might just emerge from Cannes as your perfect darling. Granted, in the world I live in, you can get away with anything if you make enough Nick Lowe references. God help the beast in me…
Unfortunately, our time at the Cannes Film Festival has come to a speedy close. Our four reporters at the festival…
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