Film Review: “The Lego Batman Movie”
“The Lego Movie” made a splash — it was whimsical, fun and more than a little silly. Not to mention, it was lucrative;
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AuthorAlicia Lepler
TV Review: “The Young Pope” (Season 1)
A camera pans, gently rotating from a television displaying the Italian “X-Factor” to a couple at a laminated table, looking paradoxically intrigued and
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Meddling with Metal: August Burns Red, Protest the Hero, and In Hearts Wake
Noise — that’s the first thing you might notice walking in. Friday night, fans leisurely filing through the SOMA Theater entrance. A stand
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Geisel Library Needs Human Bound Books
We’re behind the curve, and I’m blaming Chancellor Khosla for UCSD’s lack of anthropodermic books, lovingly bound in human skin. Heck, Brown University
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How to Cope With Academic Failure
Now, UCSD is a perfect academic haven, an intellectual ivory tower for UCLA and UC Berkeley rejects. We don’t take slackers, we’re superior.
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I Hate Mall Santas
Back in the day, when I was but a prehistoric amoeba, scuttling through the general soup of the Proterozoic era, I had a
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Film Review: “Trolls”
“Trolls” opens according to the DreamWorks Studio gold standard: with a storybook, and a paradise lost. In this strange, magical world, boisterous little
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TV Review: “Westworld” (Season 1)
“Westworld” occupies a curious space in HBO’s production lineup. Well before launch, it was carefully advertised as the network’s next heavyweight hit. The
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Film Review: “Inferno”
Once upon a time, Tom Hanks’ leading-man glamour was enough to guarantee big payouts, and plastering his face onto posters for “The Da
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San Diego Asian Film Festival 2016
“Call of Heroes” The Western genre, by now, has been exhausted to the point that everyone knows the formula: A scoundrel realizes his
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