As many students enter their first year at Hofstra University, they have seen information from GetInvolvedHU posted around the school campus, encouraging students to put themselves out there and join on-campus organizations and clubs. New Student Orientation and Welcome Week encouraged students to try new things, attend school-sanctioned events, such as the club fair, and get out of their comfort zones.
When my 9-year-old self saw Emmett (Chris Pratt) become “The Special” and join the ranks of the greatest master builders to defeat Lord Business’s (Will Ferrell) regime, I thought it was one of the greatest movies of all time. Ten years later, I hold a similar opinion. Having recently rewatched “The Lego Movie” for old time’s sake, I realized that the film should not be taken at face value.
After 36 years, the sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic 1988 classic, “Beetlejuice,” finally hit the screen on Friday, Sept. 6. Did “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” live up to the hype?
It has been quite the year for former Disney Channel star Sabrina Carpenter. In late 2023 and early 2024, Carpenter opened for sections of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” in Latin America and Asia. This earned her a career boost that would push her popularity to heights beyond the expectations of the music executives representing her. Since Carpenter’s rapid popularity growth, three of her singles have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, with “Please Please Please” snatching the No. 1 spot back in June. Most impressively, “Short n’ Sweet” earned over 350,000 sales units in its first week of release, nearly 20 times the individual sales of her 2022 album “emails i can’t send.” “Short n’ Sweet” is an all-around victory for Carpenter – and the compressed and consistent quality of the album makes it deserving of every unit sold.
The summer of 2024 has been a significant period for music in the 2020s. Many of the world’s top pop stars released their highly anticipated albums, with “brat summer” taking over following the release of Charli xcx’s album “BRAT,” and Sabrina Carpenter rising in popularity with a career breakthrough for the ages. Billie Eilish’s third studio album, “HIT ME HARD AND SOFT,” stood out for its songwriting, impeccable vocal performances and uniqueness within the musical production.
Richard Gadd’s life is on display in Netflix’s new show “Baby Reindeer.” The drama-thriller miniseries premiered on April 11 and is inspired by Gadd’s autobiographical one-man performance of the same name.
Stunt work is an aspect of film that is simultaneously embraced and underappreciated. While action fans have their favorite stunts and casual moviegoers will mostly show up for the impressive spectacle, it is still a department that has struggled to gain recognition in the major awards circles.
In a growing trend of adapting video games to the screen, the “Fallout” series has been transformed into a television show by Amazon Prime Video – and it is as engaging as it was in game format.
I’d only been on Hofstra’s campus for about 48 hours when I joined the Chronicle. Freshly transferred and stuck among hundreds of freshmen during Welcome Week, I was eager to immerse myself in The College Experience (all capitals). I knew I had a knack for grammar rules, spurred by a childhood of voracious reading and editing my more mathematically-minded little sister’s high school essays. Copy was, genuinely, the only section I wanted to sign up for. Before I’d even attended a day of classes, I was on the team.
Benson Boone’s debut studio pop-rock album, titled “Fireworks & Rollerblades,” was released on Friday, April 5. The 21-year-old upstart has risen to prominence over the past year with notable songs such as “Ghost Town” and “In the Stars.” As his following continued to grow on platforms such as TikTok, his first album received more anticipation than he could’ve ever hoped for.
