Tag: arts & entertainment
Project Almanac: The Butterfly Effect for Dumb People
If I had a time machine, I would go back in time and destroy the script for “Inception” — not because I dislike the...
“A Most Violent Year” explores relationships in violent movie
What seems to be a modern interpretation of mafia-crime movies, “A Most Violent Year” enters the scene away from its proposed goal of depicting...
We Are Scientists: A successful Barn experiment
Standing in a line that easily topped 50 people outside the Barn on Wednesday, I did a quick YouTube search of We Are Scientists...
Building Culture: The Barn: A Fable of the old Stable
There’s a constant rainfall over UC Riverside: “Riverside is boring.” “We don’t have anything important here.” “Everything ‘famous’ in our city is useless.”
The raindrops...
“The Loft” breathes life into the murder-mystery genre
“Whodunit” films have a unique air about them. These types of films are both fun and challenging. They allow the audience to become a...
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: “Defense Rests” Review
Like predecessors “Community” and “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” has a remarkable sense of continuity for a sitcom. While sitcoms often focus on plot...
Mortdecai: At least it isn’t a Burton/Depp Movie
Remember when Johnny Depp used to be cool? I do, back in the magical time known as the late ‘90s that we all view...
Decemberists are enjoyable, unspectacular on seventh LP
It’s cliche by now that when listening to the Decemberists, you may need to keep a dictionary or reference book (or, you know, Google)...
Fall Out Boy still popular after high school with “American Beauty/American...
Fall Out Boy’s “From Under the Cork Tree” will always be my first idea of high school. (And I am definitely disillusioned. Where is...
We need more quality from “We Are All We Need”
After the success of “Group Therapy,” I was excited when I found out that Above & Beyond had come out with a new album...