If you've logged on to iTunes anytime during the past week, you may have noticed that about a dozen or so new albums have been released just in time for the Christmas season.
Last week, I saw the following on fmylife.com: "Today, I realized that our generation will be remembered as the kids who liked sparkly vampires.
Editor's Pick-of-the-Year! Albums: 1) Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective 2) The xx - The xx 3) My Maudlin Career - Camera Obscura Honorable Mentions: -The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -Veckatimest - Grizzly Bear -The Life of the World to Come - The Mountain Goats Dubious Honor: -Not an album, but the mash-up of Biggie Small's "Party and Bullshit" and Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." is amazing, inspired and a must-have for any iTunes library. Films: 1) Inglorious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino 2) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - David Yates 3) The Hangover -
When the first Assassin's Creed game was released two years ago it received mixed reviews. Proponents applauded the game's solid story and presentation, as well as the superbly crafted free running mechanic that allowed the player to go almost anywhere and climb almost anything.
Once in a while, a story comes along that is almost too uplifting to believe. Enter Michael Oher and his meteoric rise to success under the guardianship of Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.
David Benioff's second novel City of Thieves is inspired by the author's grandfather's stories about World War II and the Leningrad siege.
2009 has given us quite a bit to talk about: T.I. got locked up, Lady Gaga blew up and Taylor Swift got shut up. In all, I think we've learned a lot from 2009.
Taking Woodstock is an unbelievable film purely because it has achieved the impossible: It has managed to portray the most infamously exciting cultural event of the century as profoundly and extraordinarily boring. The movie poster, with its multicolored, kaleidoscopic design, promises us a psychedelic tour of the musical phantasmagoria that was Woodstock.
If you're a fan of first-person shooters, then the No. 1 game on your radar for the past few months has most likely been Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Looking back at my notes about John Mayer's fourth album, Battle Studies, I noticed one word that consistently appeared underneath each song title.
Editor's top picks of the year: Albums: 1. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix 3.
Everyone, no matter what gender, craves a night of chick-flickery every so often - a night of crashing in front of the TV (or in the seats of the theater, as the case may be) in one's pajamas with a box of tissues and a gallon of ice cream, preparing to escape into the sunny world of romantic musical theater.
For an album that was delayed at least a year because of the band members' "perfectionism," the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's new album Night Castle leaves a lot to be desired. The band received a lot of radio airplay for its past reinterpretations of old Christmas favorites on three of its previous albums, blending a hard rocking sensibility with a classical elegance and dignity while always leaning toward the rock angle. TSO's 2000 release Beethoven's Last Night showed audiences what the band can do when it departs from the Christmas motif.
"Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect? Do you know the distinctions - empirical or theoretical - between moss and lichen?
For anyone who has ever seen a UFO, for the person who thinks his next door neighbor is from a place light-years away, ABC has the perfect show for you.
From the trailer to the promotional posters, it was clear that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind would be more than just another run-of-the-mill romantic comedy.
"For those among you who are easily frightened, we suggest you turn away now" - from that brilliant line, one thing is clear about Rihanna's highly anticipated fourth album: Rated R is not for the faint of heart.
For a musical titled Urinetown, I was delighted to find that First Year Players' fall show was not, in fact, a succession of bathroom jokes told in song, but an offbeat, witty and ironic satire of musical theater itself. The premise is purposefully ridiculous: In the near future, a worldwide drought has caused a catastrophic water shortage, and so private toilets have become outlawed.
You have a choice: You can press this seemingly innocent-looking red button and receive a million dollars, but if you do, a person, somewhere in the world, who you do not know, will die.
As the semester nears its end - yes, believe it or not, the semester will one day end - we at tableau take a step back to reflect upon what form our lives will take after we graduate from the ranks of The Cavalier Daily and move forward in our lives.
