A Review of Control
By Nikki Frustere
All the great minds of music have dealt with inner turmoil and outer torments. Ian Curtis and his band of droogs Joy Division were no exception. Anton Corbijn’s film Control chronicles the life and death of dark wave’s most influential band; Joy Division. Although they started as “Warsaw”, frontman Ian […]
1135 Comments »
Filed under: Blog, Entertainment
A Review of the Play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow An Instant Message With Excitable Music
By Laura Sardisco
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow An Instant Message with Excitable Music, directed by Edgar Landa (known to the CSULB campus for directing Titus Andronicus in Spring 2006), is a comedy that follows 22 […]
1287 Comments »
Filed under: Blog, Entertainment
Counter-clockwise from left: Vinny Chase, Eric, Johnny Drama, Turtle, and Ari Gold.
Review of Entourage
By Mike Pallotta
Like many, I was late getting into Entourage. I haven’t had HBO on my cable line-up since 2001, so I’ve had to resort to borrowing dvds or watching TiVo recordings at a friend’s apartment. If there was one show that […]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Entertainment
We figured you know what Denis Leary looks like, so here’s James McCaffrey.
Review of Rescue Me
By Philip Vargas
The show focuses in on New York City’s Engine 62 and the men who make it what it is. The main character, Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary), a veteran firefighter, struggles with work and life as he balances problems […]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Entertainment
TV host wondering how he’s going to get out of literal river of shit.
Review of Man vs. Wild
By Philip Vargas
Man vs. Wild easily has to be one of the craziest shows airing on TV this summer. The show revolves around a man by the name of Bear Grylls who puts himself in the kinds of […]
No Comments »
Filed under: Entertainment
In exchange for his life, Jemaine (left) offers up his inconvenient camera/phone that Bret (right) made for him to a 2-man gang.
Review of Flight of the Conchords
By Jessica Williams
With all good things come the bad. It’s the natural order of life. With the tasty neapolitan ice cream, there is always strawberry. With starburst, there is […]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Entertainment
(rat-a-re-view-ee)
Review of Ratatouille
By Philip Vargas
Everyone has a dream but very few realize what that dream is until it is too late. In a world of chaos there are a few who are lucky enough to know what they are destined to become and even fewer who take the risk to pursue their dreams. Pixar’s Ratatouille […]
2 Comments »
Filed under: Entertainment
Shia takes the Decepticons’ cube in order to get “even stevens.”
Review of Transformers
By Christine Hodinh
Transformers, based on the Hasbro toys that brought a generation of kids to its knees, brings the Autobots and Decepticons to Earth in search of the all-spark, which is somehow vaguely connected to that which gives the Transformers life. Honestly, plot […]
No Comments »
Filed under: Entertainment
Eagle and Shark taking time to explore eachother’s “lovely bits.”
Review of Eagle vs. Shark
By Cynthia Romanowski
Eagle vs. Shark is a charming and hilarious new indie film about two misfits who find love after a night of romance at a dress-as-your-favorite-animal-party.
Directed by Academy Award nominee (for the short, Two Car On Night), Taika Waititi of […]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Entertainment
At least he doesn’t say Yippee-Ki-Yay, Major Falcon.
Review of Live Free or Die Hard
By Sean Boulger
When I was but a young lad, I convinced my dad—after a strenuous half-hour of negotiating—to let me see Die Hard, which was playing on one of the movie channels we got with our digital cable. My father was apprehensive […]
5 Comments »
Filed under: Entertainment