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Run Fatboy Run
By American standards, Simon Pegg might seem far too scrawny for the title role of Run Fatboy Run, but his presence takes up space on the big screen in ways that make up for it.
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What words do you think of when you hear the name Las Vegas? Sex, drugs and rock and roll, right? For most people, yes, but for an ambitious group of M.I.T. students and their advisor, Vegas is thought of as something totally different: a means to become rich.
Read More...Broadway's Avenue Q proves puppets pack pizzaz
It has passion, purpose and puppets.
Read More...Lust tempts with talent
It seems like great new music is rare these days.
Read More...Destroyer weaves musical Dreams
A group will always have trouble topping a critically acclaimed album that is widely considered its best. Some will try to take a completely different direction and experiment with something else (Radiohead’s Kid A, every Beatles album), while others will continue to do the same thing and hope to rebuild the success that they have had in the past over again (Muse’s Absolution, every U2 album since The Joshua Tree). It is tough to choose which way to go because they could both lead to disasters that are hated by fans and critics.
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Dogwood Blooms
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There’s something about sport videogames that has always been a little bit dull. While going head-to-head against one of your friends in a virtual Super Bowl certainly brings a level of excitement and trash-talking, it is ultimately hampered by the fact that sports can have rules that are boring. Midway, a video game developer, realized that football games had this unfortunate problem and decided to remedy it. No longer would over-the-top wrestling moves and loud, obnoxious taunts be inexplicably absent from games of pigskin. For those who have been looking for an excuse to dust off that old Nintendo 64 or Playstation, Robert Cassidy, 4th-year Management major, may be able to help. He gives us four concise reasons as to why Blitz is totally rad:
Read More...Two Bits reveals realities of advertising campaigns
Advertising is the worst part of capitalism.
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