Shortly before winning reelection, President-elect Donald Trump offered onetime campaign rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “control of the public health agencies.” The possibility of a Kennedy led Health...

The term “Oscar bait” is thrown around carelessly in film discussions, applied to essentially any movie that doesn’t have Batman in it. It’s become such a broad classification that it sometimes...

Near the end of Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” Mike Faist’s disgruntled tennis pro Art Donaldson tosses the ball into the air. This in and of itself is unremarkable — it’s a tennis movie,...

LCD Soundsystem’s entire career has been an exercise in irony. Disgruntled producer and DJ James Murphy, annoyed with the way his music career had stalled in his thirties, wrote the group’s deadpan...

In the second scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating magnum opus “Megalopolis,” protagonist Cesar Catalina stumbles onto a scaffold, towers over a model city and manically recites the entire...

Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden of English Teacher performing at the Tabernacle in Atlanta

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” now in theaters via Mubi, opens with a card touting its Best Screenplay win at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The movie that follows led me to call the Cannes...

The experience of watching Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” is best encapsulated by a line that Owen, the film’s main character, utters early on. “It feels,” he says, “like someone took...

Over the past few months, tastemakers and artists on the trendier side of the pop spectrum have become obsessed with reviving “indie sleaze.” Indie sleaze is an aesthetic defined, as far as I can tell,...

Tigerama, Clemson University’s homecoming pep rally, will feature a headlining performance from X Ambassadors as it returns for the 68th year on Sept. 27. This year’s Tigerama theme, “110%,” plays...

Synthpop duo Magdalena Bay’s sophomore album, “Imaginal Disk,” opens with a short burst of mechanical noise, followed quickly by a single word: “Hello,” placidly intoned by vocalist Mica Tenenbaum....

I am not sure I have ever seen a movie more opposed to the things I find valuable in cinema, or in art and entertainment in general, as “Deadpool & Wolverine.” The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic...

Hi, everyone, and welcome to Clemson! My name is Thomas Merzlak, and I am the editor of The Tiger’s TimeOut section, which covers local and general arts and culture. I joined The Tiger at the beginning...

Starting college can be intimidating. I myself was very apprehensive about making such a significant transition last year. Despite my initial misgivings, though, I’ve had a great time at Clemson so far....

Clemson’s oldest student publication launched its most recent issue at a release party on Monday. The Chronicle, Clemson’s arts and literature magazine, spent the past semester soliciting submissions...

Shortly before the release of her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift’s marketing team set up a temporary “library” in a shopping mall. The installation consisted of faux-aged...

Clemson students and community members gathered in the courtyard behind the Kinard Laboratory of Physics on Monday afternoon as the University’s department of physics and astronomy hosted a solar eclipse...

The logline for “Love Lies Bleeding,” the latest film from “Saint Maud” director Rose Glass, is simple: Lou, a listless gym manager, and Jackie, a competitive bodybuilder, find their romance disrupted...

In Robert Altman’s classic Hollywood satire “The Player,” a studio executive muses to an underling about how to cut costs. “I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the...

In my capacity as this publication’s most long-winded film writer, I have viewed several movies over the last few months. I have given many of them glowing reviews, praising their formal sophistication...

In a shocking turn of events, the 96th Oscars weren’t terrible. The last few ceremonies have been varying levels of abysmal: in 2021, the show’s producers rearranged the show to honor a deceased...

In the 1890s, when cinema was in its infancy, audiences were enraptured by a particular genre of silent film known as the “phantom ride.” To make these movies, filmmakers attached a camera to the front...

When the Clemson community needs somewhere to go grocery shopping, Publix is the clear favorite. The popular supermarket chain’s Gateway Village location has been voted Clemson’s best grocery store...

It’s difficult to articulate what exactly makes Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part One” so effective. “Dune” doesn’t seem appealing on paper; it’s a long, dense movie composed mostly of political...

2023 was a banner year for movies. Major filmmakers Michael Mann and Jonathan Glazer returned from long hiatuses, while Wes Anderson released a staggering five films. The following are my picks for the...

David Fincher, the director of landmark 1990s films including “Seven” and “Fight Club,” has spent the last decade or so seeming somewhat dissatisfied with his cultural legacy. His last several...

Literary adaptations have been cornerstones of cinema since the medium’s inception, as filmmakers have attempted to translate classic stories by great writers from written words into moving images....

“Killers of the Flower Moon,” the new picture from Martin Scorsese, is a masterpiece. That descriptor is often overused, but it’s the only term that encompasses the massive, devastating impact of...

In December 1983, a thin man in an ill-fitting white-gray suit walks onto a stage. He carries with him a guitar and a boombox, which he carefully sets on the ground. He adjusts the guitar strap around...

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the sequel to the acclaimed 2018 release “Into the Spider-Verse,” debuted this June. The film, which is the first of a planned two-part story, is as visually...