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Penn College graphic design instructors speak during global conference

WILLIAMSPORT — Pennsylvania College of Technology graphic design instructors Brian A. Flynn and David M. Moyer presented “Visual Literacy: Logo Content Analysis” during the International Visual Literacy Association 2026 Online Conference. Researchers, educators, designers, media specialists, librarians, museum professionals, scholars, students and artists were invited to provide attendees with new tools, strategies, knowledge and inspiration that can be applied in practice. “David and I were excited to share some of the exciting things we are doing in our Visual Literacy ...

Rachel McAdams flexes her skills, in more ways than one, in ‘Send Help’

Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien are an acting duo I never expected to see, but I’m grateful for nonetheless after watching Sami Raimi’s “Send Help” over the weekend. When I saw the trailer for this one, a boss (O’Brien) and his awkward, survivalist employee (McAdams) being ...

Don’t sleep on ‘Is God Is,’ a primal scream of a movie inspired by Westerns and Greek tragedy

Aleshea Harris wrote “Is God Is” with the assumption that it would never be performed as a play, let alone turned into a movie. It was simply a story she needed to get onto the page: A tale of rage and revenge, an ancient Greek tragedy melded with Spaghetti Western tropes centered on contemporary Black women, twins, on an epic, violent journey to find the father who wronged them. She even rewatched Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” while she was writing. “I’ve endured so many narratives in which Black women, they’re just sort of downtrodden victims, you know? They endure, ...

The breathless Korean sci-fi monster movie ‘Hope’ leaves the Cannes Film Festival floored

CANNES, France (AP) — Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. But Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” is not your average science fiction. Few movies were more anticipated in Cannes. It’s been 10 years since Na’s last film, the well-regarded 2016 thriller “The Wailing.” While some of Na’s fellow Korean genre masters, like Bong Joon Ho, have found global renown, for many cinephiles, Na is overdue for the kind of global introduction a Cannes premiere provides. But that doesn’t mean that Na, a few hours before ...

Stephen Colbert’s long goodbye is coming to an end, leaving a void

NEW YORK (AP) — On his very first time hosting “The Late Show” back in 2015, Stephen Colbert ripped into Donald Trump while gorging on Oreos, likening his inability to resist the cookies to his inability to resist going after the then-presidential candidate. “Look, you don’t own ...