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Titanic 3D

It’s no secret that I am a diehard Titanic fan. I’ve seen the film more times than I could even imagine counting, and I still shed a tear every time. My friends and family repeatedly tell me to get over my obsession and move on with my life, but in the words of Rose, “I [...]

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The Lucky One

Starring Zac Efron as Logan and Taylor Shilling as Beth, The Lucky One swept the audience away with every tear shed in the theater. As we all know, Efron has been in all of the High School Musical movies, playing a lovestruck teenage boy fighting to keep his relationship going while battling an obnoxious blonde. [...]

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Cake at the Uptown

I had seen the band Cake in concert three times already when I heard that they were once again coming to Kansas City. I’m an avid concert-goer; it’s something I picked up from my parents. My father has been to so many concerts that he gave up counting somewhere after 500. Needless to say, I [...]

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Boy band invasion

It seems that, every decade, new sensations emerge in the entertainment industry that perfectly fit the vision of the formulaic boy band. Here are the most popular two at the moment, brought to the United States from Britain. One Direction They sold out their Dec. 3 Madison Square Garden performance less than an hour after [...]

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Girls

With all of the hype surrounding HBO’s latest show Girls, it was a large disappointment and quite overrated. The comedy series follows a group of 20-something young adults navigating their lives in New York City. Although it’s been compared to the legendary Sex and the City, the show fails to be even close to as [...]

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Abandon

Teenagers are bored with the vampires, werewolves and various other monsters who have taken over Young Adult bookshelves across America. The Dewey Decimal system has been overrun with supernatural romances, and the same stock characters keep getting recycled. In the real world, reducing and reusing are great concepts, but when it comes to literature, we’re [...]

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21 Jump Street

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill might just be the dream team. In their newest movie, 21 Jump Street, based on the ‘80s TV show by the same name, they work perfectly together to make everyone, young and old, laugh from the opening moments to the final scene. The movie opens with a geeky Schmidt (Hill) [...]

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John Carter

Commercials for Andrew Stanton’s John Carter have a tendency to state that before there was Star Wars, there was John Carter. I want to say that sci-fi has come a long way since this John Carter. Based off a story by the writer Edgar Rice Burrows, this film enjoys itself a sci-fi story by completely [...]

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