By CHRIS MELVILLE COLUMNIST I’m getting a little redundant this week, I’m afraid. I know I talked briefly about this film in my Top 5 article, but it really warrants a full review… also I haven’t watched a movie in a little while. I’ve been busy; what can I say? Beasts of the Southern Wild [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN A&E EDITOR This week’s music column is partly a single review and partly a look at the latest craze sweeping the Internet… The upsurge of Harlem Shake videos staged in American universities have made me wonder— when will it be SLU’s turn? Well, there was a SLU Harlem Shake, until it was [...]
By CHRIS MELVILLE COLUMNIST Zero Dark Thirty (2013) The Plot: Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow once again teams up with writer Mark Boal (both of whom won Oscars for their masterpiece The Hurt Locker) to tell us the story of how the CIA tracked down and (spoiler?) finally eliminated Osama bin Laden over the [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN A&E EDITOR I will be the first to admit that I’ve never heard of Tegan and Sara before listening to their latest record, Heartthrob. And I’m kind of glad I didn’t. The duo have been around since 1995 and have accumulated a modest cult following, imbuing this record with certain expections. The [...]
