Apr 24, 2013

The Student Activities Council is bringing ZZ Ward to UW as a part of its Spring Concert Series. She will perform at 8 p.m. tonight in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. ZZ Ward will be the first performance of the concert series, as The Dear Hunter could not make it due to last week’s snowstorm. However, according to Maddy Graham, Lead Student Programmer for the...

Apr 16, 2013

The only problem with them is that they are generally formulaic and predictable. And even if you don’t predict them, you can nod your head and say ‘Of course there was going to be an overtly racist jerk trying to get a rise out of the main character.’ However, just because that happens in a movie, doesn’t mean it’s a bad move on the filmmaker’s part....

Apr 2, 2013

ow why in the name of Alan Tapdancing Rickman wasn’t “Olympus Has Fallen” made into “Die Hard 5”? It’s a sad day when “Die Hard” is out Die Harded by a poor imitation. A poor imitation that is helmed by some usually solid talent, but they all get poor marks and a trip to the dunce corner for making a film less tolerable than getting an active...

Feb 15, 2013

For a movie about first love, the loss of innocence, and finding that group of friends who have no problem with being weird, look no further than “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” The movie is based on the best selling novel by Stephan Chbosky, and it does it no shame. In predictable fashion, the book is better than the movie, but the movie still does a...

Feb 6, 2013

I expected so little from this movie. It shouldn’t be good. At most, it should have fallen into the “so bad, it’s good” category, but this movie surprised me. Everything in “Hansel & Gretel” comes together just enough to be good. It is certainly better than “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” the only recent entry into this genre I can...

Jan 16, 2013