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2011 Oscars roundup

The awards season centered on the Academy Awards seems to have morphed into one of those years in which the winners are all but guaranteed. It’s just as well that the winners this year are actually de...

Adele’s latest tunes sound bloody brilliant

In order to appraise “21,” the latest album from British singer Adele, I’m going to use terminology from my international studies classes. Forgive me, readers, and please bear with me. First we...

Hurricane Bookshelf: Jersey Shore to royalty

Are you bored during the down time you have before midterms? If you’re taking a break from binge drinking or endless tanning, try checking out one of these books. “A Shore Thing” (Nicole Polizzi; G...

TV shows often go awry when remade in the US

The special relationship between the United States and Great Britain implies a strong cultural exchange. Britain gave us the Spice Girls, and we produced the Pussycat Dolls. They created ...

Every Man in this Village Book Review

Journalists are often the forgotten casualties of war: it is as though their being paid to remain objective observers automatically removes them from the emotional stressors and trauma of...

Nominated film not so ‘Biutiful’

“Biutiful” is a sprawling, jumbled film, one that at times feels awkwardly cobbled together by writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who is probably best known for 2005’s “Babel.” The fi...

“Somewhere” wanders aimlessly, goes nowhere

Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere” starts with a shot of a Ferrari doing laps in the desert. It seems both endless and meaningless, unfortunately a rather apt metaphor for the film as a whole. Both...

Film Review: “Made in Dagenham”

“Dagenham” details the 1968 strike by female machinists at Ford’s plant in Dagenham, England, over pay equity.

Hurricane Bookshelf: December Edition

Winter vacation can be incredibly dull if you have nothing to do. Why not occupy yourself with a good book while you kill time in between semesters?

“Love and Other Drugs” compelling but falters at end

The humor of “Love and Other Drugs” is subversive and complex, its characters believable and its plot compelling. Unfortunately, it all goes to hell in the last few minutes, when characters seemingly undergo lobotomies and become totally different people. At least the soundtrack is incredible.

Sarah B. Pilchick

Senior EDGE Writer