Courtesy Photo Richard Budd Connector Staff Almost 14 years after the broadcast of its series finale in 2002, and eight years after feature film sequel ‘I Want to Believe’, The X-Files has returned to television. The show finds former FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) doing about what you would…
Indie game spotlight: ‘The Witness’
Courtesy Photo Brendan Jacques Connector Staff When it comes to creating and releasing a video game, or any other form of entertainment for that matter, there’s a tendency for the creator to build their game around a marketable ‘twist’. That twist can be anything from “It’s a military shooter, but with vehicles” to more complex…
‘Death of a Bachelor’ review
Michael Paige Connector Editor With 2016 just beginning, Brendon Urie dropped his fifth studio album, “Death of a Bachelor.” This album is Panic! At the Disco’s first album without longtime drummer Spencer Smith since his departure from the band in early 2015. His absence is very apparent on this album as front man Urie uses his…
“Star Wars” franchise has been reawakened
Courtesy photo Owen Johnson Connector Staff “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is the first “Star Wars” movie (if you don’t count the animated “Clone Wars” movie from 2008) in a little over a decade and the first good “Star Wars” movie in thirty-two years. It has been thirty years since the Empire was defeated and a…
Movie review: ‘The Revenant’
Courtesy Photo Henry St. Pierre Connector Staff 2016’s Oscars Ceremony, to be held on Feb. 28, will certainly be interesting to watch. Between the unfortunate reoccurrence of an underrepresentation of minorities and this perhaps being Leonardo DiCaprio’s year when he finally wins his first Academy Award, the event has its fair share of storylines. DiCaprio…
‘The Night Before’ Review – A good present
I am as big a fan of Seth Rogen as they come… I was too young to watch “Freaks and Geeks” on TV, but I have since watched every episode I could find, in parts, on YouTube. I have seen most of his headlining movies, finding “Pineapple Express” and “This is the End” to be…
‘Jurassic World’ fails to wow audiences
Nicholas Amadeo Connector Contributor “Jurassic World” had a tough act to follow after the original “Jurassic Park” trilogy set the bar, evidently, a little out of reach. Despite its best efforts with new and improved computer graphics along with a few new, but-not-so-improved dinosaurs, “Jurassic World” ended up being disappointingly predictable. With out-of-place dialog, a…
Melanie Martinez ‘Cry Baby’ album review
Courtesy of Atlantic Records Jen Desrosiers Connector Editor In recent years, there has been a rise in popularity of indie pop music from female artists such as Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Sky Ferreira, Marina and the Diamonds and Halsey, who all gained massive fan followings through the social blogging platform Tumblr. The most recent artist…
