Grindhouse, much like everything else Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have been doing, is more an homage film than an exploitation flick. The heavy double feature is filled with aspects reminiscent of the late '70s grindhouse pictures, movies filled with bullets and broads, but also hyper-stylized garnishes. Nostalgia grips the film's directors, and it's apparent with Grindhouse that there can be too much of a exploitative, if reverent, thing.

The junior class will be presenting the first annual Geneseo Independent Film Festival on Sunday, April 22, at 7 p.m. in the South Quad. An array of student submissions will be presented.

The Kinetic Gallery is currently home to three senior exhibits. Seniors Megan Webb, Hui-Ching (Olivia) Yang and Mayumi Kikuchi are the contributing seniors to this particular exhibit.

Two films have been released recently by two auteurs of cinema, both concerned with seemingly incongruous topics when matched together. Guillermo Del Toro's fantasy/war epic, Pan's Labyrinth, is concerned with the struggle of a young girl trying to make sense of the crumbling physical reality around her while creating an enticingly rich one in her mind. Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, is a stark meditation on honor and death from the point of view of the Japanese forces in the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1944.

Dystopian narratives like Children of Men often use distorted views of the future to create striking ideas and prophetic messages that affect readers and viewers in the present.

The Fall 2006 Senior Thesis Exhibition is now on display in the Lederer Gallery. The exhibition features the final works of Geneseo senior art students Christopher Bruce, Brenna Van Norman, Martin Phillips and Tom Magnarelli. The show will run until Dec. 14.

The Lamron sat down with professor Randy Kaplan, director of this fall's GENseng production, Kimchee and Chitlins, to discuss the production, the play itself, and the direction GENseng is going. (See review of Kimchee and Chitlins on page 8.)