By JAMES MELVILLE Immortals (2011): The Plot: Theseus (Henry Cavill) is an angry, muscle-y peasant warrior chosen by Zeus (Luke Evans) to lead mankind in the fight against the evil King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke). Fighting ensues. Man, does everybody remember how awful this looked? Like, yet another sepia-toned ab-fest, or the bastard child of 300 [...]
By NICK SIRIANNO I regret to say that a lot of this campus has missed what happened this fall. Some of you might be thinking of the Robby Glass rumor, or the night Coach joined in on the dance floor, while others might be thinking about the time the O.C. invaded the SUNY Taco Bell. [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE I generally like to open with some vaguely topical reference, which is a lot easier to do when something like Halloween is going on. So…you guys like mustaches? I hear Movember’s going pretty well. By “hear” I of course mean “see,” because it’s easier to view the parade of gross facial hair [...]
By TYLER ROSS When Florence Welch released her debut album, Lungs, in 2009, it blew up. With the help of the BBC, who highlighted the album as part of BBC Introducing, and the ever-helpful Apple spot of “Dog Days Are Over,” Lungs shot to the top of the UK charts. I was reluctant to give [...]
By NICK SIRIANNO My back stood firm against an American hop hornbeam tree and I was reminded of my father. The tree, otherwise known as Ironwood, is firm and ruffled, just like the muscles of my dad’s back. I was taken back to a time when he crawled like a big elephant across the forest [...]
This artist of the week is Alex Duane ‘12. Below, he explains the process that went into creating this striking piece. In this photograph, I was exploring human primal expressions within a formal cultural context. A lot had led up to this particular photograph, beginning a year earlier in 2009 while I was on the [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Yeah, I know this came out a few months ago. I didn’t get to see it, because I was LOST IN TIME or in London or wherever the hell I told you I was last semester. But I finally rented it, so guess who gets to hear what I thought about it? [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE For those of you not in the know, ASC stands for American Shakespeare Center, the theater based in Staunton, Virginia. Every year—except last year, which broke my heart—their travelling troupe stops at SLU for a week. Three plays, seven performances, however many visits to classrooms they do. This year—just last week, as [...]
By JAMES MELVILLE Apparently, Plan “Only Review Halloween Movies For a Month” has been scrapped for Plan “Review Whatever’s In My Netflix Queue.” Then again, I guess prison’s pretty scary. There’s a fair amount of prison in the movie. Oh, and the gays. The movie is about a gay conman. Those gays, man. Frightening. They’re…pushing [...]
By TYLER ROSS I get asked a lot where I find much of the music I listen to and write about. Many have difficulty finding music catered to their interests in the ever-growing network of blogs and publications that cover current musical trends. However, finding music is much easier now than it ever has been. [...]
