Bastille has done it again with their latest release “‘&’ (Ampersand),” especially with their quintessential melancholy guitar notes throughout 14 songs that is just over 51 minutes. Here are...
“Carry-On,” a new Christmas thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, shows a Transportation Security Administration agent get blackmailed on Christmas Eve. Egerton plays Ethan, the TSA who...
Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the biopic, “A Complete Unknown.” The film is based on the book “Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald and gets its title from a lyric in Dylan’s song “Like a Rolling Stone.”
Director, writer and producer, David Lynch became synonymous with the uncanny and has had a potent influence on cinema and modern art. He was sort of weird and eccentric for certain – his works stand alone in the genre of dream-like reality and will be remembered with distinction.
In “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), Bad Bunny’s sixth studio album, he intertwines expressions of love for his homeland with the mourning of a past relationship. Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, released an album in the dead of winter that had a summer-like feeling, helping us cope with the winter blues by marrying genres like salsa, reggaeton, dembow and plena.
Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced on Jan. 27, by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards, better known as the Oscars. These nominations are shaping up to be one of the most unique years for the Oscars, celebrating 2024’s cinematic achievements, a year fraught with the ripple effects of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Craig Mannino, Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor
• February 11, 2025
There is no better indicator to how a semester may go than the quality of your floor’s bulletin board. I chose to honor the best boards by walking through each Hofstra University residence hall to find the best ones and compile them. Here are my top five.
I’m not exaggerating when I say that all I do is read. I will be rounding off the year with over 300 books read, 55 of which were released this year. Some of those new releases were five-star reads, and some of them were a waste of time. Obviously, the new releases we got this year from Emily Henry, Holly Jackson, Kristen Hannah and other big names were up to par with their previous works, and if you’re a fan, they’re worth checking out. I want to highlight some lesser-known favorites of mine from the year. From non-fiction to science fiction, allow me to inform you what books of 2024 are worth reading in 2025.
“Gladiator II” takes place 16 years after the first film. It follows Lucius, the son of Lucilla, played by Connie Nielsen, and Maximus, played by Russell Crowe. Lucius is played by Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal. Estranged from his family for over a decade, Lucius coincidentally ends up reconnecting with his mother after his home is attacked by the Roman Army. He is taken by the army to become a slave-turned-gladiator like his father, and quickly rises to greatness, also following in his father’s footsteps. The film is packed with well-done action sequences, effective gore and a compelling story as Lucius fights to restore the Roman Republic – a dream his father wished to carry out.
Can a robot fall in love? It couldn’t truly be possible, right? “Maybe Happy Ending” suggests otherwise. The musical recently hit the Broadway scene on Nov. 12, at the Belasco Theater in New York City, New York. It stars “Glee” cast member Darren Criss as a Helperbot named Oliver and Broadway actress Helen J. Shen as a Helperbot named Claire.
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