Devin Ankeney is a senior double majoring in journalism as well as media and communication from Scarsdale, New York. They joined The Student during their first year at Miami and are currently the Opinion Editor and Business Manager.
In their tenure, they’ve written across various sections including Food, Entertainment and Campus & Community. They've co-produced a podcast and have contributed to The Miami Student Magazine.
You can contact them by email (ankenedw@miamioh.edu).
It’s been 35 years since “Field of Dreams” was first released to American audiences. It doesn’t ring any less important and impactful watching it today, even for my third and fourth times.
It took more than 18 months between its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before the film was released to theater audiences. I’d been hearing about it for quite some time, and knew from the moment I first learned of it that I needed to see it.
I saw the film opening day and was promptly blown to smithereens in sheer excitement. “Monkey Man” explores political repression and religious persecution, all while finding a way to be one of the most violent movies I’ve ever seen.
When I kick back to watch a sci-fi movie, I want to feel that I can be a part of a great, different universe. I don’t want to be slammed with convoluted storylines.
From top to bottom, this film felt unfinished. The animation style felt stale, and the fight scenes were uninspired and lazy.
The past four years of my life, in the whirlwind of college, in the oversight-free environment of young adulthood, have not been the “best four years of my life.”
Whitford had the crowd laughing constantly, with several moments when the crowd’s laughter interrupted his answers during the Q&A with John Forren, executive director of the Menard Family Center for Democracy. Many in the crowd of hundreds were excited to see the actor who played a role that defined television dramas.
On Mar. 11, Bradley Whitford, who starred in “The West Wing” as Josh Lyman and in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” visited Miami University as part of the lecture series.
Students and community members packed together across from Martin Luther King Jr. Park Uptown hoping to spot Sylvester Stallone while filming his new movie, “Alarum.” The whole park and much of the surrounding area was blocked off for shooting starting Feb. 27.
Luke Macy and Devin Ankeney review Oxford's newest fried chicken restaurant, BT Chicken.