“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” revival blasted onto television screens for the first time last Thursday, Oct. 20. Clearly trying to be in keeping with the original, director Kenny Ortega made a lot of choices that preserved the initial shock of a show about “transvestites” that would have made ...
“The Accountant” is a pretty crazy movie and though admittedly, we didn't know what was going on for half of the film, it was great. Ben Affleck plays Christian Wolfe, an accountant that's lived a unique and intriguing life using his incredible intelligence to manage finances for rich and dangerous ...
Being the oft overlooked member of a famous family has to be frustrating, especially if such person is brimming with their own talent. Venus Williams, Seth Curry, any of the other Jackson 5 brothers and of course Beyoncé’s little sister Solange Knowles are often in the shadow of their siblings. Perhaps ...
From the studio that brought us “The LEGO Movie,” it’s “Storks.” It may be unconventional, but turning time-honored children’s stories into films is a well-worn approach. Now, we get a movie that shows us how… babies are delivered? Yeah, good luck with the car ride home after this one, ...
Have you ever seen a mysterious picture? Something that looked fake or photo shopped, but it also looked so real that you thought for a moment that maybe it was? Well, a while back, author Ransom Riggs found a collection of photos like this, and those photos were the inspiration for the book series ...
On Wednesday, Sept. 21, Longwood University’s Theatre Department opened their first production of the theatrical season, the Greek tragedy “Antigone” directed by Bruce Speas. For the most part, Jean Anouilh's 1940s adaptation stays true to Sophocles' original drama. However the French dramatist ...
The only movie that I have seen that could be technically be classified as a western is “Blazing Saddles.” Apart from that, I know people like Clint Eastwood by name alone, not by his steely eyed performances from the 50s-60s era of cowboy epics, which is why I went into “The Magnificent Seven” ...
When it comes to having a baby, a surrogate mother is the last option for John (Morris Chestnut) and Laura Taylor (Regina Hall). After exhausting all of their embryos without luck, the well-off couple turn to Anna (Jaz Sinclair), a young waitress who just wants to help couples achieve their dream. Clearly ...
You wouldn’t be alone if you thought that Sully was in the same ballpark, story-wise, as 2012’s Flight, and while this film is based on a true story and the previous was fictional, the similarities are there. Unfortunately, Flight is the better film, but that’s not to say Sully is a bad one. It’s ...
Hip-hop music has seen a wealth of household names drop albums drop in 2016. The likes of Chance the Rapper, Kanye West, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have all release studio albums to decent fanfare. West protégé Travis Scott is no different, as his latest LP "Birds in the Trap Sing Mcknight" released ...
Breaking into someone’s house is always a bad idea, but when your target is an unknown vicious psychopath, things are bound to become even more terrifying. "Don’t Breathe" is brutal, intense and scary while also managing to stay fast-paced and simplistic. The film follows three thieves as they attempt ...
2016 has to be the year of dance. From the island influenced vibes of recent urban songs, to the infectious Justin Timberlake single “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” the hottest songs of the summer and whole year were made to dance to, leaving the melancholy ballads of yesteryear in the past. Hi or better ...
Frank Ocean’s album is amazing. It’s important to start on that note, seeing as the hoopla surrounding its recent release reached media frenzy status with as bizarre of a release strategy as there’s been in recent memory, arguably overshadowing one of the best albums of the year. Ocean has been ...
Queen Bey just shook the world up…again. As the music world and fans across the globe mourned the death of musical icon Prince, arguably the biggest star on the planet released her sixth studio album. Beyonce’s “Lemonade” serves as a tribute to the deceased singer and the boldest musical statement ...
Longwood students of all grades and areas of study piled into Jarman Auditorium on April 26 for a night of music and lyrics – only this time, this mixture of both music and non-music majors weren’t in the audience – they were on stage. Longwood’s own Women’s Choir and Men’s Choir performed ...
A musical that makes fun of musicals is few and far between. Most shows take themselves very seriously with flash dance numbers and sweeping ballads. With “The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)” you get the best of both worlds, a show with flash that is fully aware of how silly it is. The set for ...
Lil Yachty, or the oft used name Lil Boat, is a rapper making waves in 2016 with the release of Lil Boat the Mixtape. As silly as his performance names are, Lil Yachty has garnered a considerable amount of buzz thus far. With the popularity of his single “1Night” thanks to Vine and Soundcloud’s ...
The Life of Pablo, Kanye West’s seventh studio album, is not a masterpiece like he proclaimed it would be. Rather, it is a bit of a mess, sloppy at times, and not as cohesive as past albums, but an act of marketing genius. As the album was being played, one particular line from the song “Famous” ...
Grunge was integral part of the 90s music scene. Ripped jeans and beaten-up Chuck Taylors were sprouting up left and right thanks to bands like “Pearl Jam,” “Stone Temple Pilots,” “Alice in Chains” and of course, “Nirvana.” But one of the top grunge bands of the 90s was “Soundgarden,” ...
The race to be the king of hip-hop is intensifying. While poets like Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole currently sit atop the list, there could be a new candidate for the crown, and his name is Jay Rock. One of Jay Rock’s more notable performances is his feature in the song “Money Trees” from Lamar’s ...
