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Review: 'Malcolm & Marie' carries great themes but lacks connections

Review: ‘Malcolm & Marie’ carries great themes but lacks connections

michael bald February 27, 2021

By Michael Bald Managing and Design Editor Image courtesy of Netflix In the apocalyptic blizzard that engulfed Texas several days ago, I scrolled through my watch list on Netflix trying to find a new...

Review: 'Judas and the Black Messiah' stuns

Review: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ stuns

Chris Crymes February 27, 2021

By Chris Crymes Entertainment Editor Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures There has been no shortage of narratives on racial injustice over the past year. With the murder of Breonna Taylor, George...

Entertainment industry not immune to the Coronavirus

Entertainment industry not immune to the Coronavirus

michael bald March 18, 2020

Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, many companies and people across the world have been affected. The entertainment industry in particular has taken a massive hit, from movies and music to celebrities. Movies...

No-Spoiler Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

No-Spoiler Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

thedrumbeat January 6, 2016

By Marshall Cearfoss Web Editor I have literally never seen more hype for a movie than what preceded The Force Awakens. In fact, I was beginning to doubt whether any movie could live up to this much...

No-Spoiler Review: No Escape

thedrumbeat September 2, 2015

By Marshall Cearfoss News Editor Dear audience, please allow me to be brutally frank with you. I expected this movie to be repulsive. I was expecting a boring film full of slow mo’, poorly-thought-out...

No-Spoiler Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

thedrumbeat August 25, 2015

By Marshall Cearfoss News Editor Perhaps some of you have read my review of this year’s iteration of Mission: Impossible. Well, in the beginning of that review, I expressed my dislike towards it having...

Top 5 Movies of All Time

thedrumbeat February 27, 2015

By Calvin MaynardVerve EditorWhat happened, Hollywood? You were doing so well. Silver screens used to make us laugh, cry, tremble or sweat. Screenwriters wrote sheer poetry, and actors delivered them with...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s social satire hits hard

thedrumbeat October 7, 2013

Although appearing seemingly shallow on first glance, Don Jon offers an insightful view on human nature and the effects society has on it. In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's debut as writer and director, Levitt...

Buffalo Chips: Olympus has Fallen Movie Review

thedrumbeat April 9, 2013

These days, it’s a pretty fair assessment to say that action movies suck—horrendously suck—in diabolical ways. I wonder if we could ever return to the days before the Arnold became the “govuhnah”...

Warm Bodies

thedrumbeat February 15, 2013

Step aside, vampires—you’ve got yourself a worthy, rotting opponent. “Warm Bodies,” released on February 1, is a tongue-in-cheek dark comedy that makes the notion of flirting with a zombie a no-brainer...

50 Years of Bond… James Bond.

thedrumbeat December 6, 2012

It was a brisk fall midnight, as the hum of the coke machine and the gentle “ding” of the cash register broke the silence of the quiet Carmike theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 7, when “Skyfall” premiered....

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