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The Lego Batman Movie movie review

The Lego Batman Movie movie review

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...

John Wick: Chapter 2 movie review

John Wick: Chapter 2 movie review

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...

Doctor Strange

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...

Inferno ain’t gonna set the world on fire

Inferno ain’t gonna set the world on fire

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...

Celebrate something new this November

Celebrate something new this November

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’s Movie Review: The Girl on the Train

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’s Movie Review: Blair Witch Project

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...

Juste: Red Nose Clown brings delight to campus

Juste: Red Nose Clown brings delight to campus

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...

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Pierce’s Movie Review: Ip Man

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’s Movie Review: Hell or High Water

Pierce’s Movie Review: Hell or High Water

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)...

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Five movies every graduate should watch

Pierce Brenner, Senior Staff Writer May 11, 2016

  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...

Representation of Pacific Islanders in film

Pierce Brenner, Senior Staff Writer April 13, 2016

  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...

Predictions for 2016 Academy Award winners

Predictions for 2016 Academy Award winners

Pierce Brenner, Senior Staff Writer February 24, 2016

  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...

Pan shoots for stars but falls short

Pan shoots for stars but falls short

Pierce Brenner November 12, 2015

  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...

Netflix Review: Beowulf

Netflix Review: Beowulf

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)...

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