Summer movie preview
Ty Dugan Anchor editor After Earth (May 31) It’s disappointing when people try to pigeonhole a director, but M. Night Shyamalan did it to himself. He tries no harder than any other director in attempting to have a “hook” or …
Two Tests of Endurance
Adam Tawfik Anchor Staff When buying my ticket for the 5 p.m. showing, Chris, one of the awesome people at the Cable Car, suggested that I take in a double
In love with “The Quiet Man”
Welcome back to Matt’s Movies! It’s been a while, but I thought we should jump right into the season, and by season, I mean recently passed holiday known
‘D’ is for ‘Disappointing’
I love horror anthologies. Stuff like “Creepshow” and “Tales from the Crypt.” So when I heard about the experimental anthology “The ABCs of Death,” I perked right up
Django Revisited
The controversy around Tarantino’s Oscar-winning “Django Unchained” continues. In the first of a two-part lecture on the film in contention, Dr. Christina Sharpe found it problematic how many
Die Hard 5 falls harder than Hans Gruber
In 1988, action-director John McTiernan took Roderick Throp’s novel “Nothing Lasts Forever” and created what is widely described as one of the greatest action movies of all time:
Who let the dogs die?
Little dogs are adorable. But they’re also loud, shrill sons-of-bitches, as Yun-ju (Sung-jae Lee), the protagonist of the 2000 Korean black comedy “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” knows all
Oscars 2013, live from my living room
LIVE FROM MY LIVING ROOM, IT’S… OSCAR COVERAGE HOSTED BY ME! TY DUGAN! NOT SETH MACFARLANE! By Ty Dugan Lifestyles Editor Already, I can tell the award show audience has no idea
The King & I: Yes, really
Shall We Watch “The King and I” By Matthew Leo Anchor Staff With the beginning of a new semester comes stress of a different variety (especially with all the snow storms
“Warm Bodies,” Cold Reception
It is obvious director and writer Jonathan Levine took some liberties with zombie-lore, as it is known today. In no uncertain terms, he encourages “people to be open-minded,”




