MSC Aggie Cinema Offers FREE Movies All Semester Long

Movie fans of all stripes should find something to like on the film schedule MSC Aggie Cinema has put together for this spring semester.  "Ender's Game," based on the sci-fi young adult novel by Orson Scott Card, kicks off the semester tonight at 7pm in Rudder Theater.  Other highlights of the semester include Oscar-Award candidate "12 Years a Slave," a Valentine's Day zombie double feature screening of (spoiler alert) "Shaun of the Dead" and "Zombieland," and the documentary films "Born Into Brothels," which will be screened during Social Justice Week, and "Girl Rising," which will screen right before International Women's Day.  Perhaps the best thing about the upcoming schedule is that all the movies are free.  Visit cinema.tamu.edu for a schedule and to see trailers, or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

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Dark and Fantastic Images Subject of New Exhibition in MSC Reynolds Gallery

The Memorial Student Center Visual Arts Committee (MSC VAC) opens its spring schedule with an exhibition of etchings by Spanish artist Francisco Goya and illustrations by Spanish-American artist Federico Castellón.  The exhibition, titled “Fear and Folly,” opens on Tuesday, January 14 in the MSC Reynolds Student Art Gallery on the 2nd floor of the MSC.  An opening reception will be hosted by the student members of the MSC VAC on Thursday, January 16 beginning at 6:30pm in the Reynolds Gallery.  “Fear and Folly,” which is organized through the Kalamazoo Institute ofArts (KIA) with generous support from Mary and James B. Crawley ’47, will remain on exhibit in the MSC through March 15.

According to the exhibition program produced by the KIA, the Goya prints in this exhibition, taken from his last major series, los Disparates (roughly translated as the follies), “are some of his darkest, most enigmatic creations.”  The author notes that “nearly thirty years earlier he (Goya) was painting lighthearted scenes of leisure activities to be made into tapestries for the royal palaces.  In los Disparates, some of Goya’s earlier subjects reemerge as disturbing and even diabolic images.”