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By Tara Kelly Asst. Arts & Features Editor I feel bad for the poor bastard who will attempt to recreate the party scenes in this movie. In Project X, three high school losers host an epic birthday party, which quickly escalates to something like the end of the world. The drinking, the rooftop-climbing, the shattering of [...]

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By Tom Lustig Gatepost Staff Gary Ross’ adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ young adult novel The Hunger Games is the must-see blockbuster of the Spring. The film follows the young Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) who is thrust into a no-holds barred death match by the capital city of Panem for retribution for a rebellion that occurred [...]

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By Tara Kelly Staff Writer Liam Neeson is The Man. He’s proven he can do anything: a wise martial arts master (Batman Begins, Star Wars Episode I), a dangerously smart ex-agent-of-some-kind (Taken, The A-Team), and even a troubled widower (Love Actually). What separates him from machos like Willis or Stallone is that he puts the [...]

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By Tara Kelly Staff Writer I’ll never understand why people contribute millions of dollars to have the pants scared out of them. The “Woman in Black” scared the bones out of me. I had to watch almost a dozen “Glee” videos on YouTube just to convince me that I wouldn’t see the woman’s ghastly image [...]

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By Alex Huston Editorial Staff   The Green Team screened the compelling documentary “Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez,” on Nov. 16, which details the corporate manipulation following the oil spill off the coast of Prince William Sound in Alaska that took place March 23, 1989. An Exxon Oil carrier attempted to reroute [...]

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By Miles Bergstrom Staff Writer   It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight,” has not been heard since 1981 when the last episode of “The Muppet Show” aired. It has been twelve years since the Muppets were last on [...]

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  By Miles Bergstrom Staff Writer   Forget everything you know about Martin Scorcese and 3-D. Despite the beauty that “Hugo” emanates on the surface, its roots in early film and film preservation are ideals Scorcese holds near and dear. Scorcese’s passion for film is clearly visible as we embark on the adventures of Hugo [...]

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By Samantha Rawson Editorial Staff On Oct. 21, 2011, Paranormal Activity 3, the third installment of the series was released. The film revisits sisters Katie and Kristi (from Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2, respectively), and starts in the year 2005 – a year before the previous two movies. About ten minutes in, the movie [...]

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By Brian Dagley Editorial Staff A small plane lands in San Juan, Puerto Rico, circa 1960, and out steps Paul Kemp, a fictional, semiautobiographical American journalist character created by the immortal Hunter S. Thompson. Kemp was modeled in many ways after Thompson’s own experiences working there in the 60s. In the film, Kemp begins working [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor   This semester’s second and final installment of the International Film Series hosted by FSU Professor Emeritus Dr. Arthur Nolletti Jr took place on Thursday Oct. 20, with a screening of Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s 2005 film “The Sun.” “The Sun” is a dark psychological exploration of the [...]

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