In a summer movie season that has proven itself to be rather mediocre thus far, “Prometheus” is the welcome injection of life that I have been waiting for. After nearly a month of slogging through several rather mediocre to bad weeks of film releases, director Ridley Scott’s return to […]

Repackaging older stories for younger generations is a trend that has long been a Hollywood staple, existing in higher prevalence today sheerly due to the overexposure of film in pop culture today. Unfortunately the recent pattern of dumbing down fairy tales into pseudo gritty teenage harlequin romances has quickly proven […]

  Watching “Men In Black 3” can best be described as the best case scenario of running into an old best friend from grade school at a high school reunion. You’re surprised to see him again after years of being completely out of your mind and out of your life […]

  If there was anybody in Hollywood that I wish would listen to their critics, it’s Sacha Baron Cohen. The man has far more talent than he’s willing to allow people to believe but he sadly refuses to step beyond his own bag of tricks. In the case of “The […]

  I would like to take a moment to issue a public apology to film director Michael Bay for the numerous swipes that I take at him throughout the course of my everyday life. I stand firm in my belief that he is an unprofessional and highly arrogant man that […]

  The word auteur is tossed around frequently in criticism to essentially describe directors that have a knack for doing the same type of thing in filmmaking over and over again. This is not necessarily a bad thing as noted by Kenneth Branagh’s unique take on “Thor” and Christopher Nolan’s […]

Back in 2008, Marvel Studios released what may easily have been one of, if not the most, ambitious superhero film of all time at a time in which the genre saw an oversaturation (Looking at you “Ghost Rider”). In John Favreau’s “Iron Man,” Marvel pitched the ideas to audiences that […]

  A&M-Commerce will present a posthumous degree to Malorie Bullock, the student who died in a 2010 motorcycle accident, at the spring commencement ceremony on May 12. The idea came from Dr. Raymond Green and Dr. Eric Gruver, who preside over the Honors College, which Bullock was a member of […]

  An event at Prairie Crossing that included a screening of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” was postponed last week after students complained that the promotional posters were potentially misleading and offensive. Residential Living and Learning (Res Life) staff planned to show the movie to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, […]

The evening of Wednesday, April 24 marked the opening night of The University Playhouse’s production of “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.” Upon being seated between 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., the audience was treated to a delightful romantic-comedic romp featuring the songs of Neil Sedaka. Recently suffering from rejection, […]