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"We Live in Time" was released on Thursday.

Culture Pick | ‘We Live in Time’: An emotional journey through time

Tatum Walker, Contributing Writer October 20, 2024

“We Live in Time,” starring award-winning actors Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, is a time-leaping, emotional rollercoaster that makes audience members teeter between joyful laughter and tears.  The...

"Smile 2" released in theaters on Friday.

Culture Pick | ‘Smile 2’ may scare audiences away from ever smiling again

Caleb McClinton, Contributing Writer October 20, 2024

2022’s “Smile” was an original concept, but a bland horror film. The smile curse, which slowly possesses its inhabitant before forcing it to commit suicide, was a fairly innovative premise. The execution...

Charli XCX released a remix version of her most recent album, “BRAT,” on Friday.

Culture Pick | Charli XCX’s remix of album “BRAT” renews well-deserved pop success

Cole Manasco, Contributing Writer October 15, 2024

Perpetuating the pop culture phenomenon known as “Brat Summer,” British pop star Charli XCX released a remix version of her most recent album, “BRAT,” on Friday.  The album, titled “Brat...

"Saturday Night" released on Friday.

Culture Pick | ‘Saturday Night’: The creation of greatness in 90 minutes

John Weinstein, Contributing Writer October 15, 2024

“Saturday Night Live” premiered as a show consisting of comedy sketches performed by a cast of celebrities on Oct. 11, 1975. On the 49th anniversary of the first episode, a biopic titled “Saturday...

“Joker: Folie à Deux” released in theaters on Friday.

Culture Pick | “Joker: Folie à Deux” is an utterly pointless sequel

Caleb McClinton, Contributing Writer October 6, 2024

If “Joker” is an old man waving his fist at the chaos of society, then “Joker: Folie à Deux,” released on Friday, is that same old man walking back into his house, climbing the stairs, getting...

"Megalopolis," directed by Francis Ford Coppola, released this Friday.

Culture Pick | Chaos, calamity and Coppola: A retrospective analysis of “Megalopolis”

Benjamin Smith, Contributing Writer September 29, 2024

History is full of flawed geniuses and artists who get a free pass for their failures and mistakes. Oftentimes, they are preceded by an enormous reputation, an accomplishment so incredible it outweighs...

"Transformers One" released in theatres on Friday.

Culture Pick | “Transformers One’ is a new beginning to an exhausted franchise

Caleb McClinton, Contributing Writer September 22, 2024

“Transformers One” is certainly not a perfect film. What it is, however, is a fun and exciting new chapter in a franchise that felt completely out of juice. A prequel to the Transformers franchise...

"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" premiered early Sept. on Hulu.

Culture Pick | Soft swinging, hard-hitting: ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’

Maven Navarro, Editor-in-Chief September 18, 2024

The shocking new show “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” premiered early September on Hulu and has broken preconceived ideas about the Mormon lifestyle. These eight Mormon wives are far from the...

The teaser trailer for the "Minecraft" movie released on Wednesday.

Culture Pick | It’s game over for the Minecraft movie following disastrous teaser trailer

Jacob Ritondo, Managing Editor September 8, 2024

Oh, to be blissfully unaware of the horrors that awaited in the teaser trailer for the Minecraft movie. But it’s too late. A teaser for the much-anticipated, 10-years-in-the-making Minecraft movie...

"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" is the sequel to "Beetlejuice" that released on Friday.

Culture Pick | ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ improves upon the original in almost every way

Caleb McClinton, Contributing Writer September 8, 2024

Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” does what so few sequels are able to do: It takes everything that was established in the first film and builds upon it in new and creative ways. It has been...

Mediterranean Sandwich Co. is located at the beginning of the Strip.

Culture Pick | Go Greek: Mediterranean Sandwich Co. offers Tuscaloosa vegetarians refuge

Zoe Bernstein, Contributing Writer August 28, 2024

Mediterranean Sandwich Company is an amalgamation of a Greek restaurant, sports bar, medieval tavern and late-night fast-food spot that leaves its patrons full and perplexed by its mixture of Greek and...

"The Crow," directed by Rupert Sanders, released Friday.

Culture Pick: The Crow is mediocrity 30 years in the making

John Weinstein, Contributing Writer August 26, 2024

As a reimagining of the 1994 film, “The Crow” released in theaters Friday with all the right pieces but was poorly put together.  The premise builds around the murder of Eric Draven and Shelly...