New web series dares to dream of a life without rent
Weekly installments of the new web comedy Squatters explore the homeless experience.
Viterbi graduate falls in line at Pantages Theatre
School of Engineering alumna Catherine Ricafort now plays Connie Wong in A Chorus Line.
Kart racing for modern- day gamers
With fully customizable characters, level designing, a variety of weapons and online matches that can accommodate up to 12 players, ModNation Racers takes the best elements of games like Little Big Planet and the Mario Kart series and improves upon them. Developed by United Front Games, this Playstation 3 title should feel similar to Little […]
Disney action-adventure flick falls short of precedent
From its aggressive advertising campaign to the conspicuous use of a colon in its title, it’s obvious that Disney hopes to create another Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster franchise like Pirates of the Caribbean with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The May 28 release combines flashy visual effects, chiseled muscles and vaguely Arabic imagery to […]
Eclectic soundtrack to farcical SNL spin-off falls flat
Well, it was pretty easy to see it coming. A movie as silly, as ridiculous, as ironic as MacGruber wasn’t exactly going to produce a soundtrack that Ennio Morricone would approve of. Without beating around the bush, the soundtrack is at once miserable and ridiculous, much like the movie itself. The real question is, then, […]
Series finale not Lost on the diehards
Sunday’s series finale of ABC fan favorite Lost marked the end of six seasons of mystery.
No fairy tale ending for film franchise
With Friday’s release of Shrek Forever After — according to the film’s promotional subtitle, “The Final Chapter” in the hugely profitable four-part franchise — DreamWorks proves itself not above kicking a dead donkey. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas return to give voice to their now-familiar characters in the fourth installment in […]
Writers leave shame at the door, share bad sex stories
Contributors share all in a new collection by editors Alexandra Lydon and Laura Kindred.
One man punk outfit goes out with bang
LCD Soundsystem, the gargantuan punk-dance-pop project of James Murphy, has been a highly dependable source of tunes that blur the line between innovation and accessibility. Over eight years and throughout two albums, Murphy has operated in this area as an antihero of hip. On This Is Happening, his third and allegedly last album as LCD […]
Reprise pairing of actor and director works again
Ten years ago this month, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, that year’s Academy Award winner for best picture, first appeared in theaters. So if Friday’s release of Robin Hood — another action-adventure period piece starring notoriously temperamental Australian thespian Russell Crowe, with Scott again at the directorial helm — awakens in you an uneasy sense of decadal […]