The book: “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline Suggested for: Anyone who loves video games and would love to know what it’s like to basically live within one. Or anyone who appreciates 1980s pop culture references. Clog rating: While books are our virtual reality of choice, video games provide a Read More…
While California houses a large number of colleges and universities up and down the state, there are few towns that really exemplify what it means to be a small college town like San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly students seems to dominate the immediate population and can be found at almost Read More…
Now that summer is finally here, we all finally have time to watch the movies we’ve been squealing over for so long! Even if you’re busy with an internship or summer class, there’s still more time over the weekend to go to the movies than during a regular semester. Here Read More…
Here at the clog, we like to dabble in a variety of guilty pleasures. While we aren’t at liberty to freely speak about all of them without seeming super ridiculous, we can, however, reveal one particular guilty pleasure that we often partake in during our time here at Berkeley. For Read More…
We all sleep alone. Physicality aside, we lie in the mercy of our own creations alone. You could fall asleep in the most public of places or wrapped tightly in someone’s arms and still feel as utterly alone. The fact of the matter is that a room full of people Read More…
Johnny Depp. Michael Moore. Dr. Dog Poker tournaments. Campus MovieFest. Though you may have heard the buzz about all of these entertainers and events coming to UC Berkeley’s campus in the past couple of years, you’ve likely never asked yourself who was behind all of these incredible shows. It is Read More…
Regular readers of this column may be surprised at how often my bed features as a location of movie viewing. Whether it’s in Hollywood, New York or Berkeley, I have an irresistible attraction to the hollow pallor of the computer screen as I skirt the embrace of Morpheus. If it Read More…
The Barber of Birmingham, directed by Berkeley-based filmmaker Gail Dolgin, could take home an Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony. The film, which examines the effect of Barack Obama’s election on aging civil rights activists, is nominated under the category of best documentary short subject. The 25-minute film centers around Read More…
This upcoming movie-packed weekend at Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley (2575 Bancroft Way) should be enough to drive cinephiles wild. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTjFWAvJTvI&w=420&h=315] Beginning at 7pm tonight, Friday/21, PFA continues its series of great epics by the German new wave pioneer Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Last weekend, PFA had a great turnout Read More…
A shoddy trailer does not always accurately anticipate the finished product of a film, but this one’s a doozy of a trainwreck. Stephen Daldry, director of such maudlin fare as “Billy Elliot” and “The Reader” — though I do have a soft spot for “The Hours” — has adapted Jonathan Read More…