Rating: 4.0/4.0 Classics meet the modern as Wreck-it Ralph mixes up the nostalgic feel of old age video game graphics and style into a modern day 3D animation feature film, surely making us reminisce the days of pixelated gaming and old school consoles. The movie’s protagonist, Wreck-it Ralph, has become tired of being a villain…
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Rating: 3.5 The five boys of One Direction are at it again! Since the “unexpected” leakage of the music video of the “YOLO” song Live While We’re Young came out last September, fans of all ages have been waiting for the sophomore album of the English-Irish boy band. Together with artists such as Edward Sheeran,…
Rant and Rave: ‘Skyfall’
You may have heard of the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. But what about teaching a new dog old tricks? In the latest installment of the James Bond series, Skyfall, it is exactly that which seems to be the case, with the influx of signature Bond class that makes this one…
The Menagerie presents a compilation of stories, collected from the Internet, students and employees alike; stories that have struck the hearts of even the bravest of folk; rumors of ghosts and ghouls that have haunted our grand halls. Read further if you dare. Bro. Connon Hall (SPS) It was a happy Thursday, and with…
Of dying jobs
Anonymous once said, “There are three things that are certain in life – Death, Tax and Change.” Comparing the present to the past centuries, the changes that have happened are incredible and extraordinary. It is true that change is mandatory; progress, however, is optional. Trends that were once being fuzzed over may not be as…
Once, in the sepia tone of our memories, we see our five-year-old selves creeping under the dining table with our little plastic swords while the bad guys are lurking around the corner, guns at the ready. Barbie got kidnapped by the evil witch and Elmo commanded his pirate ship. Towels were our capes, and we…
Kulturang 日本
Reading the title felt like some sort of miscommunication, didn’t it? Yet oddly enough, there may have remained a slight hint of understanding. You see symbols of another language you do not understand, yet somehow you know that it is that language just by seeing it – perhaps simply because of how unique it looks.…
Oh love! Green Day is on its way to cause another musical revolution by releasing three albums in a span of five months. It seems like the group wants to capture the crowd back, and re-enter the punk rock scene by releasing the album trilogy ¡Uno! , ¡Dos! , and ¡Tré! In this album, singer…
The waiting game
An On-the-Go Culture/Cutting Lines In this day and age, we have streamlined countless everyday activities to maximize time. Time is gold or rather money, as some would like to say, and society has created ways for us to bypass the requirement of waiting in life, or at least minimize it. We have cell phones to…
A desensitized community
Less than a century ago, a certain Nikola Tesla was making breakthroughs with his numerous inventions. He was such a brilliant mind that he predicted the technology that will enable people from Europe to communicate with people from Asia via a device smaller than their hand. He also predicted a specific technology which would connect…