Box Office Report: “The Avengers” Dethroned

First off, happy Memorial Day everybody! Enjoy barbequing with your family and taking your day off! As for me, I’ll be finishing two essays and studying for finals. Fun, right? But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. Once…

The “G.I. Joe” Fiasco

There’s not much to remember about 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. It was a film rushed out to follow the trend of turning every action figure you had as a kid into a big-budget action movie. It had…

Book Review: ‘The Immortal Rules’ by Julie Kagawa

I always like to point out emerging or overdone genres within contemporary YA literature. We definitely have seen a surge in the supernatural, in particular vampires (Thank you, Twilight). Then, with the success of The Hunger Games, dystopias of all…

Underrated Talent: JoJo

By: Melissa Berne Many of you probably know JoJo as “the girl who sings that ‘Leave, (Get Out) song’.” But many of you may not know that particular song catapulted her career, making her the youngest artist, at the age…

Film Review: MEN IN BLACK III, starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones & Josh Brolin

One of my all-time favorite movies as a kid was Men in Black. My brother and I would watch it almost every day. We loved everything about it: the action, humor, aliens and story. A few years later, Men in…

Video Game Review: Dear Esther

In an industry where gameplay is so often the main selling point for a franchise, Dear Esther challenges the very basis for most modern video games. Some would argue that Dear Esther barely qualifies as a game at all, only…

Film Review: ‘Hysteria,’ starring Hugh Dancy & Maggie Gyllenhaal

By: Ingrid Soto After watching this film, you may think twice before saying that someone or something is hysterical. Why? Because hysteria was actually the medical term assigned to female sexual desire for many centuries until 1952, when it was…