Pierce Brenner, Assistant Entertainment Editor
• March 29, 2017
In 1973, a motley crew of scientists, soldiers and a photographer go on a mission to discover the secrets of the mysterious Skull Island. However, as soon as they get there, they’re attacked by the king...
Pierce Brenner, Assistant Entertainment Editor
• March 29, 2017
In 1973, a motley crew of scientists, soldiers and a photographer go on a mission to discover the secrets of the mysterious Skull Island. However, as soon as they get there, they’re attacked by the king...
Pierce Brenner, Assistant Entertainment Editor
• February 24, 2017
Bruce Wayne/Batman (Will Arnett) is living large in Gotham City as the world's greatest detective. He's smart, handsome, insanely wealthy, and has the biggest ego on the planet.
But when...
Pierce Brenner, Assistant Entertainment Editor
• February 24, 2017
After avenging his beloved dog, ex-hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is pulled back out of retirement to fulfill an oath he made to an old colleague years before. However, what starts out as a simple hit...
Pierce Brenner, A&E Assistant Editor
• November 28, 2016
The science fiction film Arrival tells a deceptively simple story of 12 extra-terrestrial spaceships landing on Earth and explores the plotline of linguist Louise Banks, being sent by the U.S. military...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• November 11, 2016
Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a world famous neurosurgeon living a charmed life until a car accident costs him the use of his hands. Desperate to return to his work, he travels to Nepal to...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• November 11, 2016
The third film based on Dan Brown’s novels, Inferno begins with Harvard professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) waking up in a Florence hospital, amnesiac and plagued by apocalyptic visions. When he’s...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• November 11, 2016
As November begins, you’re probably getting over your candy hangover, waiting to gorge yourself on turkey and hit the stores. You may not know that November is host to a multitude of lesser-known but...
Pierce Brenner, Assistant Entertainment Editor
• October 28, 2016
Fearless was hosted Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 P.M. in Arts Building 111.
In many ways, student athletes live charmed lives. They’re the toast of the university, have access to a plethora of scholarships...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• October 24, 2016
Based on a best-selling book by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train follows Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), an alcoholic divorcée who stalks her ex-husband and his neighbors. In the end, it’s a mess.
When...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• October 24, 2016
Set twenty years after the original Blair Witch Project, James Donahue and some of his friends travel to Burkittsville, Maryland to uncover the mystery of his sister Heather’s disappearance.
Love...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• October 24, 2016
“Over the last several weeks our goal has been to discover those qualities which make each individual uniquely funny. Often these are uncomfortable areas for the actors, perhaps even sources of shame…Rather...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• September 28, 2016
Ask a film buff what they thought of this summer and they might call it “disappointing,” “underwhelming,” “horse manure” and the like.
The consensus on summer 2016’s movies...
Pierce Brenner, Entertainment Assistant
• September 28, 2016
Loosely based on the life of Wing Chun’s most famous Grandmaster, Ip Man tells the story of the eponymous master before he spread his teachings throughout the world by training such luminaries as Bruce...
Pierce Brenner, Arts and Entertainment Writer
• September 13, 2016
Bringing the stories of racial minorities, LGBT individuals and other marginalized groups to the stage is a difficult task.
It requires care and sensitivity to prevent it from being offensive,...
Pierce Brenner, Arts & Entertainment Writer
• September 13, 2016
Set in west Texas, brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) go on a bank-robbing spree to obtain enough money to keep the family ranch. Meanwhile, two Texas Rangers (Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham)...
If you’re a senior and realizing that your your college career is coming to an end, you may be wondering what’s next, whether you would wish to relive your college years and whether...
On March 26, the much anticipated “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” hit movie theatres across the nation and it was well worth its’ hype.
About 30 minutes into “Batman v Superman,”...
Like many indigenous groups, Pacific Islanders are rarely portrayed in film and are very much an underserved niche group.
There are also very few actors, directors, etc., of Pacific Islander...
To say that women have it rough in the film industry is nothing new, but female directors specifically endure the most hardships.
Only four women have ever been nominated for the Academy...
Now that the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony has passed, it seems as if movie studios are wearing down.
In the film world, January and February are universally known as “dump months,”...
Here comes the Oscars, my second favorite time of year. For nearly 100 years, the Academy Awards have been the prime event honoring film in the United States.
While the show itself might...
Think of “Pan” as Neverland B.P. (before Peter).
The story follows 12-year-old orphan Peter (Levi Miller), who is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the mystical land to work as a slave...
An astronaut and botanist is left for dead on Mars during a severe dust storm. Now he must use his wits to find a way to contact NASA and stay alive until the next manned mission to Mars...
It’s 1965, and 12 year-old Sam is at summer camp. While there, he meets an eccentric but magnetic girl named Suzy. They become friends, but over the next year their friendship grows more...
Becca and Tyler are staying at their grandparents’ house for the first time. Their mother is estranged from her parents, so Becca decides to film a documentary to show her that her parents...
Pierce Brenner, Senior Staff Writer
• September 29, 2015
In early medieval Denmark, a horrific monster called Grendel (Crispin Glover) is terrorizing the court of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins). In desperation, Hrothgar hires famed adventurer Beowulf (Ray Winstone)...