Drive on!
February 7, 2012 • Garrett Cimina, Editor-in-Chief
Filed under Entertainment
Video games have taken players on globe-tripping shoot-a-thons, cross-country road races, and adventures as a dragon-killing magician-swordsman. But Driver: San Francisco takes place in a world so far untapped by the media: the mind of a coma patient. An original premise, to be sure, that somehow... Read more »
The Golden Globes 2012
February 6, 2012 • Trudel Pare, Opinions Editor
Filed under Entertainment
The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Show was held and broadcast live on Sunday, January 15th. Ricky Gervais hosted the awards; it is his third consecutive year in this capacity. Gervais, who is known for his acerbic wit and humor, lived up to his reputation on Sunday as he cracked jokes about Madonna,... Read more »
Is the new Footloose a good way to cut loose?
November 22, 2011 • Cooper Irons, Staff Writer
Filed under Entertainment
A The year is 2007, the peak of Disney Channel’s grip on tweendom, thanks to the roaring success of High School Musical and Hannah Montana. The latest development in the media epidemic is the announcement that HSM cover boy Zac Efron has scored the Kevin Bacon-established role of Ren McCormack... Read more »
The Pixar awards: rating the works of animation’s best studio
October 11, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Editor-in-Chief
Filed under Entertainment
It’s a fact; Pixar rocks. The Emeryville, California-based animation studio has been pumping out a seemingly endless run of critically acclaimed movie properties ever since Toy Story became the first feature-length fully-CGI picture ever, back in 1995. Pixar has produced ten more movies since then,... Read more »
Does Warrior Knock Out The Fighter?
October 8, 2011 • Cooper Irons, Staff Writer
Filed under Entertainment
A- Being released nine months after The Fighter, an Academy Award-recognized film about boxing and brotherly love, could not have been harder for Warrior. Even though the latest from Miracle director Gavin O’Connor had plenty of skeptics from the very first trailer, Warrior is technically a mixed... Read more »
Which Toy Story reigns supreme?
June 10, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment
By now, it is probably safe to assume that everyone who cares has seen the touching ending of Toy Story 3, the first animated feature to earn over $1 billion at the box office (imdb.com). It is time, therefore, to set that movie and its two predecessors in the only context that today’s superiority-obsessed... Read more »
Beach Boys’ “Smile Sessions” to be released in 2011
May 4, 2011 • Robert Park, Staff Writer
Filed under Entertainment
This up-and-coming album isn’t your typical 21st century album release. This album is much bigger. Lady Gaga will momentarily fade out of the spotlight as fans of original pop music are given a moment to reminisce by enjoying a new album from one of the most popular bands of all time. One of the... Read more »
Bon Jovi delivers sterling performance
April 7, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment
There are old rock bands and then there are classic rock bands, and New Jersey rock group Bon Jovi, still rocking out sold-out venues some 27 years after they first formed under the banner of lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, is the latter. Their latest tour, in support of the release of their Greatest Hits... Read more »
Mine creatively!
April 7, 2011 • Garrett Cimina, Humor and Leisure Editor
Filed under Entertainment
You find yourself in an empty field, only a few trees and a small pool of water for company. In the distance, you see towering cliffs of grey stone, and a large lake bordered by sandy beaches. You attack the nearby tree with your bare hands and are rewarded with several blocks of wood. After some... Read more »
Elementary my dear Watson…
March 11, 2011 • Vinay Viswanathan, Opinions Editor
Filed under Entertainment
On the days of February 15-17, Jeopardy! filmed from an IBM research facility in Yorktown Heights, NY to broadcast a highly contested match between legendary contestants Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter as well as the IBM supercomputer Watson. This match, which Watson won by an astounding margin, represents... Read more »
