Oh, Lord. Another celebrity got a reality show. Wait, scratch that: Ke$ha got a really long advertisement deal with MTV. “Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life” produces a very carefully crafted image of the pop star known for singing about hangovers and her “Gold Trans Am,” but at least it’s entertaining.… Read more »

The spring season for paid cable kicks off with two shows returning just in time for the pre-finals lull. The humor-ridden, stressful lives of two of TV’s busiest ladies serve students as reminders that life only gets harder, never easier. “Nurse Jackie” First at 8 p.m. Sundays is “Nurse Jackie”… Read more »

Netflix gifted its subscribers with a good chunk of childhood memories and more last Friday. Old-school Cartoon Network shows such as “Codename: Kids Next Door,” “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “Courage the Cowardly Dog” graced the Recently Added section and set the Internet aflame with nostalgia and excitement as a screenshot of… Read more »

Since Reverly Music and Arts Festival doesn’t have huge names in its lineup, students unfamiliar with the performing artists are just gonna have to get familiar with something new.We’ve compiled the top songs of each player that has music on Spotify, so just turn it on and educate yourself.… Read more »

Everyone recovering all right from spring break hangovers? Good. Want to relive the memories after blacking out? Probably not. Well, have no fear of director/writer Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers.” Chances are the film’s version of spring break is nothing like any Badger had to deal with. The film starts with… Read more »

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Sometimes it’s easy to predict who will win Oscar gold. Daniel Day-Lewis will most likely win Best Actor for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln this year, and Anne Hathaway’s performance in “Les Misérables” outshines everyone else in the category for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. But there are many… Read more »

Many great films get passed over at the box office for a variety of reasons. Thankfully, Netflix can save a film’s overall reputation by offering bored college students the opportunity to jump start its fame. One such film that got screwed out of the recognition it deserved from the box… Read more »

Bow down, TV lovers: “Community” has returned for a fourth season. The surprise hit show with a cult following seemed on the brink of cancellation, but, at least for now, “Community” will continue with a 13-episode season. “Community’s” ensemble cast of community college misfits normally gives the show an edge,… Read more »

The year’s worst-reviewed movie so far is now in theaters. But no one should have expected “Movie 43” it to be anything but crap. The A-list celebrity cast ensemble may have heightened expectations from audiences and critics alike, but actors can’t save something that is fundamentally meant to suck. “Movie 43”… Read more »

Politics can be a messy business. Backstabbing, media wars and blackmail are just a few of the common tricks of political intrigue, at least according to the world of Hollywood. Yet, as of late, these ways of Washington have gotten old. The spotlight of quality hasn’t shined on political thrillers… Read more »

Fox has a new crime thriller — ok — starring Kevin Bacon — interested — about a serial killer obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe — now we’re getting somewhere. “The Following” has a new twist on the usual formula for a crime drama. The show pits the former FBI agent… Read more »

With Oscar gold under her belt after the success of “The Hurt Locker,” director Kathryn Bigelow set her sights on retelling the story of finding Osama bin Laden after his capture in May 2011. Many moviegoers anticipated “The Hurt Locker’s” intense focus on military action to carry over, making “Zero… Read more »

A new semester means less time for sitting back, relaxing and watching a week’s worth of backlogged shows. With current shows starting back up and new shows sneaking in under major shows’ mid-season break, we sorted through the good and the bad to recommend what you should stop watching, keep… Read more »

Today’s chart-topping singles and albums are often a collision of genres. “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant band Scala blew audiences away with electric string instruments before topping charts. Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” gained popularity for its mashing of country themes with a sick dubstep drop. But it’s not… Read more »

The world’s favorite MI6 agent, James Bond (Daniel Craig, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”), returns for a third installment in the most recent Bond cycle. “Skyfall” finally breaks the series away from the odd continuation between “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace” to tell a fresh Bond story. But a… Read more »

Over its lifetime, Walt Disney Studios has done amazing things with an enormous range of movie premises. From “Mulan” to “Hercules,” to “Bolt” and “Treasure Planet,” Disney films have spanned the gamut and made the studio famous for being able to make children’s movies from almost anything. With Disney’s latest animated… Read more »

Last fall, as many of my favorite TV series came to an end, I reverted to my usual skeptic attitude toward the new shows that debuted. Generally, I favor ABC’s lineup, because let’s be honest, Disney throws so much money at its programming that most are bound to at least… Read more »

While it might sound like a joke, there are people out there that are really good at carving butter. It’s a substance with a malleable consistency that remains solid when cool; why not use it to make sculptures? Also, why not use it as the premise of a ridiculous movie?… Read more »

All good things must come to an end. For everything else, we just pray it eventually dies. Then there’s “Jersey Shore,” the raunchy, controversial reality show entering its final season, set in Seaside Heights, N.J.. Full disclosure: I lived in New Jersey for six years and am often bombarded with… Read more »

As Oscar movie season begins pumping out hopeful contenders, there’s always the time around the end of summer that we get the try-hards: movies that try to be Oscar-worthy but fail. With big names galore and production values up the wazoo, first-time director Nicholas Jarecki did a decent job with… Read more »

Woody Allen seems to have started a series of movies based on European cities with his latest film, “To Rome with Love.” After “Midnight in Paris” received rave reviews last year, hopes were high for this star-studded title to have the same quality of storytelling and deep underlying messages. Unfortunately,… Read more »

In Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man,” we are re-introduced to high school genius Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield, “The Social Network”), a wiseass know-it-all living in New York City. Peter mostly keeps to himself and only bothers others when he needs to. This all changes when Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone, “The… Read more »

You either hate it or love it. The series that has grossed more than $2 billion at the box office is set to release its fifth and final film this fall. Yet, even during this long lull between parts one and two of “Breaking Dawn,” it seems like you can’t… Read more »

In a tiny store nestled into a Tokyo Metro station, Jiro Ono’s skilled hands are dancing at his restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. Rice, fish and sauce are combined into a tiny bundle of flavor that can overwhelm every sense. Only the most select ingredients from Tokyo’s fish market and the best… Read more »

I went home to New Jersey over spring break and met up with my friend who goes to Princeton University. We hung-out on Princeton’s campus, ate a lot of unhealthy food and really just enjoyed ourselves. On my last day there, we saw “Pariah,” and I was surprised by how… Read more »

Films featuring LGBT lead characters have been portraying coming-out stories for a long time. With recent attention through campaigns like the It Gets Better Project being paid to those choosing to end their lives to escape social stigma, it’s more important than ever to express the struggles the queer-identified must… Read more »

The popularity of “The Hunger Games” movie and book series has spurred a debate online. Fans of Japanese cinema are calling foul on series author Suzanne Collins, saying the central premise of “The Hunger Games” is ripped from popular title “Battle Royale.” “Battle Royale” is a 2000 Japanese film in… Read more »

Returning to a lover in death. Standing in one’s former glory against humanity. Realizing it was all just a dream. These are just a few of the most memorable movie endings that have us talking weeks after we see them. Endings are one of the most important moments of any… Read more »

It’s a familiar story: A woman wants a divorce from her husband. In any American film, the concept would be predictable, commonplace and hardly worth making a movie after. But in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation,” a familiar story is told in an unfamiliar way. In the film, Samin… Read more »

British movie maker Steve McQueen had to make a choice. In order to have his latest film, “Shame,” taken seriously for awards this season, he would have had to cut many sexually explicit scenes just to appease sensitive viewers. However, removing so many plot-essential moments would have severely compromised the… Read more »

Late 19th century Dublin is a place of hardships; fear of typhoid and poverty grip citizens as they go about their daily lives in a struggle to survive. Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close, “Damages”) is among the lucky few employed as a waiter in an upscale hotel, making enough money to… Read more »

Stephen Daldry’s (“The Reader”) newest screen adaptation, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” is a well thought-out story of a 9/11 child-victim’s struggle to cope with loss. But it tries a bit too hard. Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn, debut) and his father (Tom Hanks, “Larry Crowne”) have a visibly close relationship.… Read more »

Meryl Streep does what she can with a poorly constructed overview of the highlights of Margaret Thatcher’s career as the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom in director Phyllida Lloyd’s “The Iron Lady.” Margaret Thatcher (Streep, “It’s Complicated”) is losing her mind to dementia. Her dead husband (Jim… Read more »

The silent movie genre has long been considered extinct, but French writer/director Michel Hazanavicius revives the format in the film he calls his love letter to cinema, “The Artist.” In 1927, Hollywood’s most beloved silent film star is George Valentin (Jean Dujardin, “A View of Love”), a handsome, dashing heartthrob… Read more »

Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne, “Black Death”) gazes upon Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams, “Blue Valentine”) almost every Thursday in his academic town’s news theater near London. Despite the disapproval of his family, he dreams of becoming a movie director and pushes his way into a job on the set of “The… Read more »

Director Alexander Payne (“Sideways”) seems to be gearing up for another Oscar with the combination of a brilliant script and bold acting from George Clooney (“Up in the Air”) in his new film “The Descendants.”Matt King (Clooney) is forced to pull himself away from his job as a lawyer in Honolulu… Read more »