How Coachella is just like a day at UC Berkeley
We at the Clog respect *music lovers* for going to Coachella, but we can’t help but see that a weekend at Coachella is just like one at UC Berkeley.
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‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ guts its predecessor’s personality, leaves a carcass
Sporadic incident can make for great pulp, but “Pacific Rim: Uprising” is too characterless to find worth in such wonkiness.
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Chastain’s powerful performance rescues ‘Molly’s Game’ from Sorkin’s troublesome writing
Ultimately, just as the real-life Bloom presided over a chaotic overlapping of men’s egos, Chastain holds it all together despite the film’s weaker points.
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‘The Dark Tower’ condenses complex source material into forgettable action flick
“The Dark Tower” is plagued by melodramatic slow-motion shots set to an overly saccharine soundtrack accompanying entirely unrealistic action sequences
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Unburying my Internet self
Cutting Room Floor
“My name is Madrid, but call me Maddy. A real JAP, a Japanese-Jewish American Princess.” So read the excruciating bio of my old Polyvore account, a social media platform where you make and share “sets,” digital clothing collages that showcase capitalism at its finest. In case there was any confusion,
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‘Beasts of No Nation’ gives voice to narrative of African child soldiers
“Beasts of No Nation,” an immersive depiction of African child soldiers by Cary Joji Fukunaga, will leave you devastated. We follow a young boy, Agu, as he is ripped away from home and forced to join a ragtag rebel militia, NDF, featuring Idris Elba as their fearless commandant. Preceding the
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Guillermo del Toro triumphs with ‘Pacific Rim’
Terrific special effects and cinematography stun viewers in big-budget sci-fi blockbuster
Somewhere in the world tonight, Michael Bay is crying himself to sleep. “Pacific Rim” is Guillermo del Toro’s monsters-versus-mechas spectacular. It is not a perfect movie, but it is an awe-inducing, jaw-dropping achievement in the visual qualities of the summer blockbuster. The film does not suffer from a slow start.
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