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(02/13/26 5:37am)
Male yearning isn’t new. Men are capable of romance–driven longing like the rest of us, but their stereotypical macho, no–feelings demeanor isn’t always broken through on the screen like we want it to be. So many of these fictional men hold back their feelings, shy away from communication, yell at their partners, and offer a half–assed love none of us deserve. However, in romances of the last decade, stories centered on male yearning dominate, and their most emotional moments are endlessly cycled online. From Theodore “Laurie” Laurence’s (Timothée Chalamet) heartbreaking confession to Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) in Little Women to Peeta Mellark’s (Josh Hutcherson) painful devotion to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in The Hunger Games saga, women eat male yearning up. Seeing men obsessed with someone—so much that it hurts—reminds us that men too are capable of emotional vulnerability and expressing love.
(01/23/26 12:57am)
Let’s be honest. It’s only three weeks into the year, and you’ve already given up on your daily trips to Pottruck. We here at Street are sick of the boilerplate, and we bet you are too. New Year’s resolutions have become a tired cliché, infamously repetitive, and a guaranteed way to start your year with immediate failure. But it’s the Year of the Horse, and horses don’t stop—they keep going.
(02/13/26 5:33am)
When the LOVE statue was unveiled on College Green in summer 1999, the student body hated it. “It’s a copy of what’s downtown, and I think it’s disgusting,” Josh Croll (C ’00) told The Daily Pennsylvanian at the time. Jon Sell (C ’01) echoed the frustration: “I think they should set it on fire and put it on top of the high rises.” Pop art had always had its share of dissidents, with many art critics (or non–art critics, like Josh and Jon) finding it a crass, tasteless, bottom–of–the–barrel, watered–down version of fine arts. “I can imagine they might’ve been thinking, it’s embarrassing taste in some ways,” says History of Art professor Michael Leja. “It’s like, the campus is too classy to have a tacky sculpture like that on it.”
(02/13/26 3:43pm)
Penn admits more than 2,000 of the most accomplished students across the world every year. Despite their varied skills and accolades, a majority of these students share the same unifying struggle: finding true love. Much like her peers, Briana Cantero (C ’26) is an incredibly talented multi–hyphenate, juggling her obligations as president of the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association at Penn with the consulting grind—but those accomplishments weren’t the focus of our conversation. Briana instead confided in Street about perhaps her most coveted achievement—her six–year–long relationship—and the lessons that came with it.
(01/21/26 1:06am)
What do you do after making two of the most acclaimed television series of all time, back to back? Perhaps you try to bottle lightning a third time—greenlighting a sequel or spin–off that guarantees viewers and money. Maybe you quietly retire, stepping into a consultant role so your name still carries weight without risking dilution. Or maybe you’re Vince Gilligan, and you build a streaming service’s prestige so thoroughly that your next original series becomes its most watched show ever.
(02/15/26 5:38pm)
This review contains spoilers for Season 5 of Stranger Things.
(01/21/26 2:09am)
Especially when I was younger, I didn’t really understand what made the first Avatar film (and its sequel) such a box–office sensation. I found the movie boring and put it off for years. That is until my sophomore year of high school, when I impulsively rewatched the original a few months before The Way of Water arrived. I viewed it exactly as director James Cameron intended: late at night, on Disney+, on my laptop.
(12/13/25 11:28pm)
With the year coming to a close, it’s always nice to look back at what’s passed. And what a year it’s been, especially in cinema. Some real classics–to–be have graced the screen in an industry that’s seen scares left and right, cementing film’s popularity and standing power in the global consciousness. There have also been a myriad of surprises, as the past year illuminates the growth and reception of anime against the biggest blockbusters.
(12/13/25 7:58pm)
Guillermo del Toro has been in a 25–year situationship with Frankenstein. He’s said it himself: “Frankenstein to me is the pinnacle of everything … I dream I can make the greatest Frankenstein ever, but then if you make it, you've made it. Whether it's great or not, it's done. You cannot dream about it anymore. That’s the tragedy of a filmmaker.” It’s such a painfully romantic thing to admit—that the dream is sometimes sweeter than the execution, that creation always comes with the risk of disappointment, that once you animate the monster you lose the fantasy of what he could have been. It’s deeply Shelleyan, deeply Catholic in the melodramatic sense, and deeply del Toro: he's a man who loves monsters so tenderly he’s almost afraid to touch them.
(12/19/25 7:45pm)
For almost a century, Warner Bros. has been one of Hollywood’s great institutions. It survived the end of the studio system, the rise of television, the streaming wars, and the era where every company tried to buy every other company. But somehow, the most dramatic chapter in its history is the one unfolding right now.
(12/13/25 10:30pm)
At the time of writing this piece, I will have played about 15 hours of the latest Tony Hawk Pro Skater installment. The first three of those were spent figuring out how to get out of the game’s very first level, The Foundry. The aggressively unforgiving nature of this game, for better or worse, is part of its appeal: in other words, gamers will need to “git gud.”
(12/13/25 11:56pm)
Earlier this month, a friend told me he felt he needed me to accompany him to a hip–hop club event. I love hip–hop, but I am certainly not as well–versed as he is. Nevertheless, he told me that he didn’t feel comfortable entering the space on his own because he felt that he shouldn’t enter a Black space as a non–Black person. He felt that entering the space of a culture he enjoyed would be an intrusion, even though he was genuinely appreciating the music that he loved.
(12/13/25 10:26pm)
It’s been quite a tumultuous time for country music. It seems that, in the past few years, the genre has been pushed into a moment of reckoning. While artists like Beyoncé and Shaboozey continue to spotlight the genre’s Black roots, the industry has met this increased culture awareness with an odd mix of defiance and disruption. Earlier this year, breakout country star Shaboozey stood on the AMA’s stage as a presenter while a whitewashed history of our country was espoused on stage. In 2024, Beyoncé received no nominations for the Country Music Awards, despite her unapologetically country record COWBOY CARTER being one of the most successful albums of that year. The explanation? That her album somehow lacked “authenticity” because of its less traditional sound, and that Beyoncé simply was not a real country artist, despite having produced music in the genre. Country artist Luke Bryan even justified the CMA’s choice not to nominate Beyonce for any awards by stating, “if you’re gonna make country albums, come into our world and be country with us a little bit.”
(12/09/25 5:26pm)
Penn students once again find themselves at the onset of wintertime. Finals are creeping up, the temperature is creeping down (a lot), and it’s never been a better time to distract yourself from the hours of studying in Van Pelt than by thinking about what to ask for this holiday season.
(12/15/25 5:00am)
The Housing Initiative at Penn and Penn’s Department of Psychology are collaborating with the City of Philadelphia on PHLHousing+, a three-year rental assistance pilot that provides monthly cash transfers to 301 low-income families. Researchers from both departments are evaluating how the cash assistance compares to traditional housing vouchers and how the program affects youth well–being.
(01/29/26 10:27pm)
At a networking event filled with current Daily Pennsylvanian staffers and rather successful alumni, I flag down New York Times Book Review editor Scott Heller and attempt to sell myself as an upcoming writer. Now that I’m a senior, these events offer much more than free Dunkin Donuts and a chance to show off my thrifted professional clothes. Swirling a half–downed gin and tonic, feeling positively out of place in a blazer at Smokes’ on Saturday afternoon, I pitch myself harder than I’ve ever pitched any article.
(12/04/25 4:36pm)
We love to flirt with death—at least behind the barrier of the silver screen. Maybe it’s morbid curiosity, maybe it’s catharsis, maybe it’s just good storytelling, but audiences have always been obsessed with the spectacle of survival. “Death game” movies—stories where contestants compete until only one walks out alive—feel aggressively modern, but the instinct behind their success is ancient. The arenas may change, but our fixation doesn’t.
(12/08/25 8:04pm)
In 2025, Hollywood’s most reliable special effect wasn’t CGI—it was cloning its stars. Michael B. Jordan played twin brothers in Sinners. Robert De Niro played rival mobsters in The Alto Knights. Robert Pattinson played a man and his copy in Mickey 17. Theo James faced off against his evil twin in The Monkey. Even Superman found himself doubled, with David Corenswet facing off against his evil clone Ultraman. Add Elle Fanning’s twin act in the newest Predator film and Dylan O’Brien’s bleak comedy Twinless, and it starts to feel less like coincidence and more like obsession.
(12/02/25 4:56pm)
It’s 4 p.m. and I’m running around Rittenhouse Square, looking for someone interesting to talk to. Arts beat Beatrice Han is by my side when we spot Sylvia and Effie, donned head–to–toe in goth couture.
(12/02/25 2:37pm)
It becomes increasingly difficult to romanticize autumn as the colorful leaves slowly turn brittle, a constant reminder that winter is approaching. But the changing scenery also hints that winter break is inching ever closer, and the anticipation of relaxing, reuniting with friends from home, and reconnecting with family members radiates all across campus. The holiday season is thrilling, but it can also be a stressful time: while bringing everyone together over a delicious meal can be meaningful, it can also unintentionally bring up family tensions and uncomfortable conversations. While it may feel easier to shy away from these uncomfortable interactions, the lighthearted romantic comedy Nobody Wants This reminds us that sometimes it's best to approach them head–on.
