When Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement after the film “Side Effects,” the world wasn’t really shocked, but more intrigued. Now, after only a three-year hiatus, Soderbergh has taken a break from directing television series and off Broadway works to deliver “Logan Lucky.” Returning ...
There’s something sinister and awful about the modern horror movie formula. Take a creepy thing, throw it on the screen for some jump scares and roll it into a film. Often these films can either be awful (“Anabelle,” “The Boy”) or just good (“Mama,” “Lights Out”). The few times a truly ...
Edgar Wright made a name for himself in the early 2000’s with the cult-classic television show “Spaced” and the zom-rom-com “Shaun of the Dead.” His success continued with “Hot Fuzz,” “The World’s End,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” and writing credits on “Ant-Man” and the ...
Christopher Nolan may be one of the most talented filmmakers working today. He redefined the superhero genre with his Dark Knight trilogy, adapted the novel “The Prestige” to critical acclaim and has been the force behind some of the biggest crowd-pleasing intellectual films of the last few decades ...
Welcome to college! For some, you’ll be well equipped to handle the halls and various dorm rooms of the college life here at Longwood University. For others, this may be your first time stepping onto a campus for realsies. If you don’t know when the dining hall opens or closes, where the post office ...
If you were a kid in the early 2000's, chances are you had, at one point, read Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" books. These stories combined kids who didn't like authority (or even other kids) with pranks and a kid of over the top potty humor that somehow transcended potty humor itself. Now Dreamworks ...
With an abundance of 80’s songs, pop culture references, colorful visuals, colorful language, and not-so-nice characters, “Guardians of the Galaxy” was a movie that shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. Especially when comparing it to all the other much more serious and story driven Marvel ...
In any kind of entertainment, be it video games, books, theatre, television or movies, there’s always a debate between showing versus telling. Generally, the agreement is that you should show instead of tell. Don’t tell the audience about how sad a character is, let us see it in their tears and ...
In the early 2000’s, Adam Sandler was king. After a stint on Saturday Night Live, he came out with a string of commercially successful, if critical divisive films that audiences flocked to. Now though, he’s had more hits than misses and after his contract with Netflix gave him arguably his worst ...
Like them or not, the "Fast & Furious" franchise has been raking in cash at the box office with every new installment. While they used to be the joke of Hollywood, a new focus on character and an embracing of the bizarre and over the top actions and stunts helped the franchise find new life with ...
“That Old Fighting Spirit” While DC is out playing with a tiny plastic version of one of its biggest characters, Marvel is trying to, once again, bring one of its well-known characters to life. Wolverine’s films past has been less than stellar. While fine in the ensemble X-Men films, especially ...
In the midst of Donald Trump’s presidency, there was bound to be an even greater amount of socially conscious political music. 22-year old rapper Joey Badass (stylized as Joey Bada$$) has always had a conscious message behind his music, but upped it to another level with his second studio album “All ...
Most actors reach a point in their careers where they do one of two things; star in a series of unfunny comedies that pale in comparison to their earlier works (“Little Fockers,” “Parental Guidance,” “Daddy Day Care”) or they star in a series of smaller, independent films, allowing them ...
Recently, many cartoons have found themselves receiving live action film adaptations from Hollywood. “Alvin & The Chipmunks,” “The Smurfs,” “Marmaduke,” “Yogi Bear,” “Fat Albert,” “The Last Airbender” “Jem & the Holograms” and “Underdog” are all examples of purely ...
Whenever a movie of any kind, be it animated, action, horror, becomes popular, everyone attempts to imitate it, regardless of the amount of thought went into the effort. But having a derivative idea can be excused if the movie itself is good. “Life” is clearly inspired ...
In his self-penned note on Apple Music’s album page, Drake reflects, saying “More time with family and friends. More Life. I’ve still got vibrations to send. More Life.” The sentiment is short but powerful. “More Life,” a Jamaican saying that essentially means to be well is the thesis of ...
Considering that the original television shows regularly featured actors in rubber alien suits fighting against teenagers in multicolored skin tight suits, having a serious take on the Power Rangers is just as silly a concept as the source material. However, whether or not the movie is an accurate representation ...
One could call the Longwood Theatre’s production of the play, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” an undisputed success looking at the box office sales alone. Tickets were sold out for every showing and waitlists were made for the overflow of people who still wanted to attend. An audience of ...
Jordan Peele, one of the creators of the comedy sketch show “Key & Peele,” an alumni of the sketch comedy show “MADtv” and a writer and star of the 2015 comedy film “Keanu,” is writing and directing his first solo feature, the horror film “Get Out.” A comedy writer and actor taking ...
Living up to the hype is a pressure few can overcome. With that being said, pressure makes diamonds, so if the hype is surpassed, praises are due. That’s exactly the situation Detroit based rapper, Big Sean has found himself in with the release of his fourth studio album “I Decided.” Sean recently ...
