ARTS & CULTURE
Monday, March 23, 2015 17
A Trio of Film Reviews, Currently in Theatres
Vampires, melodrama, and bad erotica: something for everyone?
kendall grant › staff writer
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 1/4
Tepid, timid, turgid, tedious, and tame, if barely staying off the track of terrible, Fifty Shades of Grey is
a monochromatic misfire, a syrupy softcore melodrama, a Harlequin Romance with pulleys. Chaste
and clumsy, drab and dull, silly and sanctimonious,
limp and ludicrous, it’s a Twilight ripoff that’s almost
inferior to its already inferior inspiration.
Anastasia “Ana” Steele is a twenty-one-year-old
English literature undergraduate at Washington State
University’s satellite campus near Vancouver. When
her roommate, Kate Kavanagh, becomes ill and is
unable to interview wealthy twenty-seven-yearold publishing mogul Christian Grey at his company
headquarters in Seattle for the college newspaper, Ana
agrees to go in her plac K