Brendan Jacques Connector Staff Last week, Nintendo announced that they would be following up their hugely successful 3DS remaster of “Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” by giving the same treatment to its sequel, “Majora’s Mask.” This announcement was followed by every Zelda fan on the Internet simultaneously declaring, “Well it’s about time!” Fans, including…
‘How to Get Away with Murder’ on ABC
Melissa Almonor Connector Staff Shonda Rhimes, producer and creator of hit television shows “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” premiered her newest TV sensation this fall, “How to Get Away with Murder.” The show stars actress Viola Davis as defense lawyer Annalise Keating who teaches Criminal Law, which she calls “How to Get Away with Murder,” at…
A brutal glimpse into war with new movie, ‘Fury’
Robert Shaffer Connector Contributor As I watched “Fury” in the theater, it did not take me long to realize something: I was watching a WWII movie made for the year 2014. There are no flag-waving, patriotic, idealistic scenes in “Fury” and there are no assurances that there are brighter days to come. The American soldiers…
Foo Fighters new album ‘Sonic Highways’ yields contrasting opinions
“Twenty years. We’ve been doing this exactly 20 years,” said Dave Grohl in the premiere of “Sonic Highways,” the HBO miniseries that documents the band’s journey to eight major studios in cities across the United States including Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle and New York, to record their recently released album of the same name. Two…
‘Nick Jonas’ album review
Amanda Dysart Connector Staff Nick Jonas is back, but has left his brothers behind. A lot has changed since they took a trip to the “Year 3000” or even since 2004 when a young Jonas released his debut solo album, “Who I Am.” Jonas has left Disney behind, graduating to a more adult sound and…
Artist-in-residence Leah Buechley conducts workshop
Jacob Solomon Connector Contributor The room filled with curious students as UMass Lowell’s 2014 Artist-In-Residence Leah Buechley prepared her workshop. Designer, engineer, educator and founder of MIT’s High-Low Tech Group, Buechley has worked for years with lesser-known electrically conductive materials in an effort to redefine the tools of today’s engineers. Having developed the Lilypad Arduino…
‘Spec Ops: The Line’ retrospective review
Brendan Jacques Connector Staff The vast majority of modern video games are built around murder. From the gritty post-apocalypse of “Gears of War” to the bright, grassy plains of ‘Super Mario Bros,” there’s always some enemy standing in the way of the player’s goal, and more often than not, that enemy isn’t going to last…
‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ quick review
Brendan Jacques Connector Staff “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” is the kick in the teeth the series has desperately needed. Sledgehammer Games, in their first attempt at the acclaimed series, has succeeded in bringing back the energy that the series has been lacking for years while also improving the formula in novel ways that change…
