Rocky debuts stellar sophomore album
The rapper’s new album entitled Long.Live.A$AP is a must listen.
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V/H/S horrifies with sinister short films
Though its segmented horror narratives vary in quality and style, V/H/S ultimately proves terrifying for all audiences.
Girls fosters unapologetic comedy
As far as showbiz mentors go, independent-filmmaker-turned-HBO-darling Lena Dunham could do a lot worse than Judd Apatow. Apatow, the writer-director-producer variously responsible in one capacity or another for The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Pineapple Express, is prolific, but with so many box-office smashes under his belt, he’s also […]
Mass Effect 3 stuns with storyline and gameplay
The highly anticipated final installment of the Mass Effect series comes to an epic close.
Album shows no growth
Ingrid Michaelson’s new album fails to give new life to her mellow music and lyrics.
New comedy disappoints on every front
A mediocre script, subpar performances and bad direction create the perfect trifecta for an uninspired, boring cinematic venture.
New origin story places mutants in center of history
There are bound to be fans of the X-Men saga who will be pleased with last weekend’s long-awaited prequel, X-Men: First Class. Although the film does breathe some new life into the sagging franchise, it’s emphatically not the fantastic film it could have been, and it most likely won’t age particularly well. Unimaginative dialogue, a […]
Filmmaking juggernauts team up for 1970s thriller
J.J. Abrams keeps on coming back to a box he received in his childhood. As a boy, Abrams was given a ‘mystery box’ — unknown items inside a box labeled only with a question mark. Abrams, now nearly 45, has never opened it, but has said the box’s tug on his imagination greatly influences his […]
MTV: Network on the prowl
In what might be the finest instance of audience targeting ever orchestrated, MTV debuted its new supernatural thriller Teen Wolf Sunday night, immediately following the conclusion of the network’s two-hour Movie Awards telecast. After the 120-minute Twilight lovefest ran its course (the stars of Eclipse, the latest installment in the still-unfolding franchise, accepted awards for […]
JEP pays greater dividends than grade boost
Possibly one of the most beloved community service programs on campus, the Joint Educational Program is a service-learning program that more than 2,000 USC students participate in annually. Students can become Project Read and Math mentors, work in shelters, or work with foster care children. The most popular division is teaching, where students can participate […]