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Oh my God, it’s almost 2010: Most Overhyped Movies
“The Men Who Stare at Goats” was released recently. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it would be funny and smart. Plus, it had Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” in it—a recipe for success. A week later, it’s getting crushed by “2012,” and its Rotten Tomatoes rating hovers around 55 percent. Like countless [...]
18th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival
It’s not often that St. Louis gets to be called an “international hub,” but every year, our venerable city dons the title for a week and a half in mid-November. That’s right, the 18th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) is upon us!
Raditude | Weezer
The album cover of Weezer’s new album, “Raditude,” is awesome. You see, there’s this dog, and being a dog, he doesn’t have wings, yet he’s flying through the air.
The top 5 Simpsons ‘Treehouse of Horror’ segments
The first “Treehouse of Horror” aired Oct. 25, 1990, a little more than 19 years ago. Like every “Simpsons” Halloween special that followed, it started with a warning of terror and ended with three stories. The latest episode in the series aired two weeks ago, and as Halloween approaches, what better time than now to [...]
Ghost Stories
From Obama’s first 100 days in office to the release of the much anticipated sequel “Fast & Furious,” 2009 has been notable for many reasons. Yet one of the most memorable aspects of the year thus far has been the fact that people are just dropping like flies. And more dead people means more ghosts. [...]
Exploring the IMDb Bottom 100: “Pocket Ninjas”
For the series’s maiden voyage, I’ve decided to review “Pocket Ninjas,” which clocks in at a 1.4 out of 10, horrible enough to be IMDb’s worst movie of all time.
In Defense of ‘Speed Racer’ (yes, that ‘Speed Racer’)
It was the summer of 2008. Britney Spears and Coldplay were rocking the airwaves with “Womanizer” and “Viva la Vida,” and everyone I knew had flocked to the multiplexes to watch movies like “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Hancock.”
On a muggy Thursday night, I asked my friends if any of [...]
30 Rock
A comedy’s third and fourth seasons are akin to litmus tests of how a show will fair in the future. For example, “Seinfeld” didn’t lose a step in seasons 3 and 4, and from there it stayed consistently funny until…well, until its last episode. On the other hand, “Scrubs” began to show its cracks by the end of its third season, and was in complete free fall by season 5. The same goes for “Weeds.”
What to do over Fall Break?
Fall Break is this Friday, and we at Cadenza know what you’re thinking. “I get a whole day off from school? But wait, I don’t have classes on Friday anyway. And I have two midterms next Monday. And a paper due in that other class…
Sweding Festival preview
Hey everybody! What are you doing Sunday night? You say you’re all going to curl up with “Ghostbusters” and dread the coming midterm week? I’m surprised there are enough copies on campus…
Well, instead, why don’t you attend the Second Annual WUTV Sweding Festival at 5 p.m. in Brown 100? It’s guaranteed to be a blast, as you can watch your fellow students’ film creations on the big screen.
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