Time was, Super Bowl commercials were all about comedy, artistry and the occasional celebrity appearance. In fact, it wasn’t rare to hear people say the only reason they watched the Super Bowl at all was for the commercials — and they watched those commercials because they were colorful, funny or touching. It’s likely that no one […]
From 265 pounds to 144 pounds, those are unbelievable results. In just a season, equal to four months, of The Biggest Loser the season 3 winner Kai Hibbard lost a lot, and now is telling it all from her point of view inside the show. Hibbard confesses the show is not what it seems. The […]
In the last quarter century, the end of colonialism and the perpetuation of modernity have brought about the concept of transnational cinema. In definition, a nation is usually considered a specific geographic area where the people within its borders share common culture and ideology. Benedict Anderson, a professor emeritus of International Studies at Cornell University, […]
Since its initial announcement last summer, Sony Online Entertainment’s game – H1Z1 – has had an immense following. What interested players wasn’t the idea of killing zombies or fighting other players for scarce resources (though that was icing on the virtual cake, so to speak), but the promise of a much more realistic survival game […]
The Dover, Delaware police department recently released a video of a police officer rocking out to singer Taylor Swift’s Shake it off while driving in his patrol car. He waves to pedestrians while grooving to the popular song. The Dover police department are calling the video “Dash cam confessionals” while releasing the video on some […]
In recent years, television’s experienced a glut of truly exceptional programming. This recent onslaught of complex characters, engrossing and unexpected plot lines, as well as genuine emotional connection have meant that television, rather than just movies, is the country’s greatest platform for modern artistic expression. In this article, I will focus on three programs, the […]
Back when George Clooney got married in September to Amal Alamuddin, there wasn’t much fuss made in the press over their 17 year age difference. The spotlight focused on the end to Clooney’s seemingly interminable bachelorhood, with media heralding it as the end of an era and the beginning of a shift in the collective […]
So it continues, and another broadcast network has yet another actor that is being brought into the spotlight over alleged spousal abuse. In early 2014, Columbus Short of the high-ranking TV show, Scandal, was arrested on charges of spousal battery and child abuse. He and his wife got into a physical altercation that stemmed from a verbal […]
It seems hard to remember, but less than a month ago the world was obsessed with comedian Seth Rogen’s latest comedy The Interview. The comedy focused on assassinating North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a satire that many didn’t take lightly. A radical hacking by the group Guardians of Peace (G.O.P.) ended up causing Sony […]
Clint Eastwood’s latest film American Sniper, is shrouded in a large amount of controversy. The film, which is currently playing in theaters, is a dramatization of the experience of the Navy SEAL officer Chris Kyle. Chris Kyle served four tours in Iraq from 2003 to 2009 and is credited with being the most lethal sniper […]