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Review: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’

Daniel Schott, Business Manager January 23, 2013

J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy continues in this first installment of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” As with “The Lord of the Rings” series, the Hobbit series will appear in three separate films,...

Review: ‘Django Unchained’

Tom Richardson, Staff Writer January 23, 2013

Quentin Tarantino is a director who holds off on the action for interesting monologues, a director who isn’t afraid to get too violent, a director who makes several homages to classic films, and a director...

Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

Jason Cuevas, Staff Writer November 13, 2012

Trying to film the idea of a person’s life is never easy. Trying to film six of their lives, should be impossible. This hasn’t stopped the critically loved novel Cloud Atlas from coming to screen. Cloud...

Movie one of the best animated experiences of the year

Tom Richardson, Staff Writer November 13, 2012

Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Street Fighter II, and Q*Bert. These are some of the many virtual classics that gamers around the world have experienced at the arcade. Fix-it Felix Jr. & Wreck-it Ralph, both...

Movie Review: ‘Sinister’ appropriately creepy, never boring

Tom Richardson, Staff Writer October 25, 2012

Author Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) and his family move into a new home where he discovers a box of film canisters up in his attic one night with a series of real murders caught on them. After doing...

Movie review: ‘Looper’

Tyler Braatz, Staff Writer October 9, 2012

The year is 2042 and time travel hasn’t been invented yet, but as Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), our central character informs us, “in thirty years it will have been.” In the future, time travel will...

Movie review: ‘Dredd’

Tom Richardson, Staff Writer October 9, 2012

The police department and the US’s Judicial System become one; due to the criminals of the future becoming more aggressive and violent, demanding an organization that can unite both departments. The...

Movie review: ‘Resident Evil: Retribution’

Tyler Braatz, Staff Writer September 27, 2012

Milla Jovovich is back as gravity-defying, zombie-slaying Alice in true form in “Resident Evil: Retribution” and is joined by a plethora of cast members. Sienna Guillory and Boris Kodjoe are back as...

Movie review: ‘V/H/S’

Tom Richardson, Staff Writer September 25, 2012

Imagine how scary it would be to have to break into a stranger’s home, the interior pitch black, and attempt to steal a VHS tape for a reasonable amount of money. This is one of the many horrific scenarios...

‘Iron Sky’ has wit and charm for an otherwise serious set of topics

Luke Kokinos, Staff Writer September 25, 2012

“Iron Sky” has been grabbing attention for almost two years as the film about Space Nazis, and thanks to Tugg and Dane101, a screening in the Madison area was provided. After many budgetary constraints,...

Movie review: ‘Lawless’

Tyler Braatz, Staff Writer September 11, 2012

In depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, the bootlegging Bondurant brothers were legendary, known as ‘invincible,’ and the film Lawless almost has you believing this through the outstanding performances...

‘Moonrise Kingdom’ about children but no kids’ flick

Robin Gee, Designer August 24, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom is a love story between two twelve-year-olds (Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman) on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s. Wes Anderson creates a miniature universe filled...

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