Every Sunday when I call my parents, at one point in the conversation with my father we will begin talking about movies. I’ll ask what movies he’s seen that week and he’ll ask the same. And then,...

With the lousy months for new movie releases out of the way, it’s time for the cinema to start getting better again. So here are five movies I’m very excited for that are coming out this year. 1.The...

1. Bernie (2012): Sinfully lacking popular reception, Bernie was one of the best comedies last year that featured Jack Black playing a character we haven’t seen him ever try before. Bernie, a mortician...

Hollywood has had a love recently for adapting classic children’s tales into horrible blockbusters (Snow White and the Huntsman and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters). Now, under the direction of Bryan...

It seems like nothing but trouble has dogged NBC’s cult hit TV Community: from the hiatuses, to the supposed cancellations, to many of the people who make the show successful dropping out, being a fan...

Sunday, Feb. 24, marked the 85th Academy Awards, a night where Hollywood pats itself on the back for four hours. Hosted by Seth Macfarlane this year, the show broke many conventions from typical Oscar...

The zombie genre (and please forgive my horrible pun) has been in need of some life. After such travesties like Resident Evil, it’s hard to find recent inventive, emotional takes on the zombie genre...

It’s difficult to articulate my feelings on Michael Haneke’s Amour. On one hand, you have an expertly-crafted film that tackles real life. On the other hand, you have an incredibly depressing film...

Alfred Hitchcock is a fascinating man. He’s notorious for as many great films he’s made as he has rumors about his personal life. Hitchcock decides to focus on neither of these too in-depth, and instead...

As someone who never heard of the band Red Jacket Mine, I wasn’t sure what to expect before listening to the band’s most recent album Someone Else’s Cake. At first listen, the band had reminiscent...

It was 5 years ago on Feb. 11 that the Beckerman Recreational Center finally opened to the campus community. Students have been using the center for health and wellness, and for one day, they were fed...

I guess I should have seen this one coming: after being bored to death by director Steven Soderbergh’s last film (Magic Mike), I was feeling a bit more optimistic about his newest film Side Effects....

After years of being away from Middle-Earth, Peter Jackson has returned to it with the dense anthology to The Lord of the Rings with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; both works written by geek-god J.R.R....

I have a high affinity for Dave Grohl, lead singer of rock band the Foo Fighters. He’s a man who is unbelievably dedicated and enthusiastic to what he loves. That enthusiasm is transparent in his directorial...

Four years after her success with The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow returns to the War in Iraq with Zero Dark Thirty. And just like in her last movie, Bigelow focuses on a group of people involved in the...