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Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park

Annalissa Houser February 22, 2017

Eleanor & Park is a novel that tells the story of two outcasts: Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan. Eleanor is full of freckles and curly red hair. She is new to the town of Omaha, Neb. She was sent...

The Lego Batman Movie Review

The Lego Batman Movie Review

February 13, 2017

Rating: 5/5   Allowing audiences to assuage their memories of the image of Batman that the pop-culture travesty Batman s. Superman: Dawn of Justice put into their head, The Lego Batman Movie...

The Space Between Us Review

The Space Between Us Review

Jordan Sherfy February 10, 2017

BL: Jordan Sherfy Rating: 4/5 The Space Between Us is a two-hour interplanetary adventure. Shortly after arriving to help colonize Mars, an astronaut Sarah Elliot (Janet Montgomery) dies while giving...

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle Book One)

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle Book One)

Samantha Joslin January 30, 2017

The Raven Cycle is a book series containing four novels which follow five main characters and their intertwining lives. The first novel is called The Raven Boys, and although it focuses primarily on protagonist...

Hidden Figures Review

Hidden Figures Review

Jordan Sherfy January 23, 2017

BL: Jordan Sherfy Rating: 4.5 out of 5   Hidden Figures is a two hour and six minute drama with an important overarching message. It is a hidden gem that provides audiences with an important...

Silent Review

Silent Review

Benjamin Becker, Entertainment and Communications Editor January 22, 2017

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Poetic yet choppy. Driven yet pointless. Monotonous yet gripping. Silent is a movie so simple and straightforward that is compels the viewer to look for added meaning, and then...

Live by Night Review

Asher Norberg, Opinion/Lifestyle Editor January 16, 2017

It may only be January, but Ben Affleck’s Live By Night will be the biggest swing-and-a miss movie of 2017. The film was based off of Dennis LeHane’s award winning 2012 crime novel of the same name....

Oczy Mlody Review

Michael Rock January 16, 2017

In the 50 years of psychedelic rock’s existence, there has been one band that has managed to persist and evolve in the face of constant change. That band is the Flaming Lips. For over three decades,...

Rouge One: A Star Wars Story Review

December 20, 2016

Rating: 4.5   There is pressure for every Star Wars film to be able to live up to the cinematic sci-fi masterpiece that was A New Hope. Rouge One: A Star Wars Story not only had to do just that,...

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