After four long, tortuous years without even so much as a peep from her, Adele has finally dropped her first single and music video “Hello,” without so much as a promo or a hello.
The song itself is just perfect. Adele knows what to give her fans, and that is songs that make you feel like you just divorced your...
Roses are Red by William McIver
To embrace the budding rose
And simply meet her thorns
I sink slowly into my prickly embrace
Witnessing her bloom
Behind the shadow of her great petal
As someone else stoops down
And breathes in the wondrous scent
Still stricken and sticking
One simply watches the flower tasted
Feeling parched lips pucker
As nectar runs freely down
And a smile snakes across his face
As if...
“Rock the Kasbah” is not about The Clash. In fact, neither the British punk band nor their song “Rock the Casbah” are mentioned even once during the film. If that doesn’t peeve you, there is some entertainment value here, though mostly from Bill Murray’s interactions with his supporting cast. While the soundtrack is forgettable and a few scenes simply...
The Barn at UCR held its first major event this year last Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. Students filled in by the dozens and took their seats for a night of poetry. In the back, there was a table for water and hot cocoa to keep the audience hydrated and warm. Organized by ASPB, the event was scheduled to...
Filled with violence, misogyny and homophobia amongst other vitriolic references, Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, known now as Earl Sweatshirt, shocked and adored critics and audiences with his debut mixtape “Earl.” The lyrics were eerily reminiscent of a late-90s Eminem, settling him in perfectly with his former crew Odd Future, with the do-it-yourself aesthetic and fuck-it attitude which have been prevalent...
I feel like I’m suffering from cinematic deja vu. With most of the big budget Hollywood movies released either in summer or around Christmas, seeing a decent movie in autumn has become more the exception than the rule.
Vin Diesel’s vanity piece “The Last Witch Hunter” is in the former category, featuring a borrowed plot and borrowed actors in a...
Ask your sister, best friend or the kid you just met in geology lab if they have heard of Vanessa Carlton. I am willing to put my money on it that they have, but may only recognize her through her greatest commercial success, “A Thousand Miles,” after it was intertwined into a movie-long comedic joke in the Wayans brothers’...
The second season of CW’s “The Flash” opened up with a bang and introduced many new possibilities for the show and its universe. But with that said, the thrilling narrative of Jay Garrick, Zoom and the multiverse came to a halt in the third episode, “Family of Rogues.”
Instead of continuing the exciting story arc of the aforementioned, this episode...
If anything, “Life is Strange” showed me the viability of episodic game releases. I tend to have an aversion to paying for things I have to wait for, and my only other experience with episodic game releases was Valve’s “Half Life 2” debacle from 2007. Why yes, I am still bitter after all these years.
While this does mean that...
Master monster-maker Guillermo del Toro has once again proven that he doesn’t need to make a horror movie to provide scares and entertainment. Labeled as a gothic romance piece, “Crimson Peak” is a beautiful blend of absolutely frightening ghosts and effects, gorgeous costumes and sets and decent to good acting.
The viewers are immediately thrust into the horrific world that...