As Halloween comes to a close, the holidays finally turn their head, ready to embrace children with the joy of the season – at least, children who aren’t taken to see “Free Birds,” the animated debut feature by Reel FX, hoping to stuff some Thanksgiving into the hectic end-of-the-year movie schedule. Owen Wilson, one of […]
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Movie Review: ‘Ender’s Game’
The poster for “Ender’s Game,” hoping to symbolize a science fiction story as representative of 1980s young adult interest in adventure and violence just as “The Hunger Games” is today, states in dramatically large design, “This Is Not a Game.” Not since “Pacific Rim” has a movie advertised such an amusingly ridiculous tagline. Obviously, this […]
Movie review: ‘Bad Grandpa’
Johnny Knoxville keeps an amazingly consistent pace for a man now in his early 40s. Since creating his now cult classic MTV show “Jackass” in 2000, Knoxville hasn’t stopped doing what he does best, producing at surprisingly the same level of bearable mediocrity for over a decade. With fellow “Jackass” creator Jeff Tremaine in tow […]
Love|Hate: Does Arcade Fire live up to its hype?
Ever since their surprising win for album of the year at the Grammys in 2011, Arcade Fire has risen in public acclaim to something like ’90s Radiohead: too popular to be indie, too indie to be commercial. The increased scrutiny comes with backlashes, and backlashes of backlashes, and the upcoming “Reflektor,” their follow-up to breakout […]
UCLA professor’s ‘Ka Yev Chka II’ details life in 1970s Armenia
The original version of this article contained information that was unclear and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. A lonely train horn sounds. Steel wheels strain and squeal against the track as the engine roars its approach. With a suitcase in hand, Professor Anahid Keshishian appears on stage to […]
Love|Hate: Is the horror genre thriving or dying out?
There are fewer than two weeks until Halloween, and it’s time once again to get back in the spirit of frights and fears. Per usual, the entertainment world has a big effect on how the faux-holiday turns out; costumes of the season’s favorite characters find their way into the evening’s attire. We personally anticipate the […]
Movie review: ‘Escape Plan’
Everyone willing to go to the theater to see “Escape Plan,”the newest vehicle for glamorizing Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger as they spin into their late 60s, is going to receive exactly what they expect. The once idolized action stars who brought flocks of moviegoers to see them take on an army of terrorists in […]