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Each semester ends up being challenging in its own right. Here are some movies coming out this spring that will hopefully give you a nice break from school!
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Somewhere between witnessing a sweaty Tom Hardy chomp on a live lobster and seeing the character of Venom soulfully tell Eddie Brock that he’d made him change his mind about humanity, I realized that “Venom” was not the version of the story that I’d grown up with.
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Two years later, “Deadpool 2” doesn’t clear the bar set by its predecessor — it runs right smack into it, colliding with an inglorious thud.
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Indeed, the biggest takeaway from “Bright” is that racism is wrong, a platitude we didn’t need to hear from white filmmakers Landis and Ayer.
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“The Last Knight” is a trashy pastiche of popular properties, none more so than itself as a franchise. Everything awful about previous films returns to lay siege on the senses.
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During every conversation I have with somebody about music, we always end up with the same type of exchange. I’ll recommend a song to a friend or ask my roommate if I can play her a neat tune, and they’ll say sure. When the music starts, they always already know
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2016 has been a tumultuous year, to say the least. With all semblance of sociopolitical empathy seemingly foregone in favor of an unpredictable and frankly frightening new status quo, it’s difficult to understand how the past year has been anything but a burden. The beauty of Denzel Washington’s new film
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This semester, ASUC SUPERB’s film lineup is combining the new and old, coupling modern blockbusters with legendary classics. With Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” and Seth Rogen’s laugh-a-minute “Superbad” already screened, the juxtapositions will continue over the following months to keep us entertained as the year advances.
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The blockbusters of this past summer movie season were a garbage fire of epic proportions. Film’s image, undeservedly so, has suffered because of them, and if the trend continues the studios are eventually going to ruin everything. Too many of the big budget films were either terrible or lost a
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Kehlani gazed out into a crowd swarming eagerly towards Lower Sproul and the surrounding balconies, buildings and stairways at ASUC SUPERB’s annual welcome week concert Friday. “I used to walk all through this place,” the Oakland-based R&B queen announced, “When I had dreams of going to school, I wanted to
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