By Kaitlin MacRae
“Neither can live while the other survives.” This is the fate that Harry Potter must come to terms with in the sixth installment of the epic series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) now faces his greatest challenge: helping the aging and injured Professor Dumbledore locate and destroy Lord Voldemort’s remaining [...]

By Matthew Walters-Bowens
Music, like the aesthetic adoration of flowers, really is a universal language, and its beauty easily crosses cultural barriers.
This feeling contributed to the choice of title for the Westminster Choir’s recently released CD, Flower of Beauty. The first CD that solely presents the choir since it has been under Miller’s direction, the disc’s [...]

By Charles Cartagena
Orphan, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, takes audiences on a thought-provoking, suspenseful and emotional journey into the lives of a feuding American couple coping with the loss of their third child.
The film sets the audience up for a disappointing, overly gory, cartoonish and stock horror slasher with an off-putting opening dream sequence: Kate (Vera [...]

By Katherine Johnson
His life may be more than “unfabulous” now, but actor Markus Flanagan knows what it’s like to worry about landing auditions, as he addressed Rider’s fine and performing arts majors last week.
“Everything layers up,” Flanagan said. “All the criticism, all the directors and casting agents can layer up and get in the way [...]

By Heather Fiore
When Adam Sandler comes to mind, it’s hard to imagine anything but comedy. Well, viewers will be surprised — and they’ll laugh so hard they may shed a few tears — when watching the new movie he stars in.
Funny People, directed by Judd Apatow, stays true to its comedic plot but cleverly mixes [...]

By Andrew Brown
Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell are amongst the leading voices in the campaign for green energy. Just don’t call them environmentalists.
Allow Tickell to explain: “The danger of saying that I’m an environmentalist is that everybody immediately has a picture of what that means. People classify the environmental movement as a reactionary one. Activism [...]

By Charles Cartagena
In Michael Bay’s second installment of the Transformer’s live-action series, Revenge of the Fallen, Optimus Prime leads the audience through an opening flashback thousands of years into the past, when life on Earth is threatened for the first time by visiting Decepticons.
Prime, voiced by Peter Cullen, takes the audience into the present day [...]

By Heather Fiore
From the classroom to Broadway, one Rider student is taking his life on tour.
A sophomore musical theater major who lives on the Lawrenceville campus, Rich Crandle recently received probably one of the most important phone calls to help kick off his professional career.
“Since getting the phone call, I have been on cloud nine,” [...]

By Katherine Johnson
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially when it comes to bachelor parties, as the men in The Hangover learn.
The hysterical comedy is about a group of guys who take a trip to Las Vegas for their friend Doug’s bachelor party, a night they truly cannot remember.
After waking up the [...]

By Kaitlin MacRae
As Rider continues its efforts to go green, the Energy and Sustainability Steering Committee (ESSC) is sponsoring a Green Film Series to emphasize the importance of environmental awareness and the harmful impact we continue to have on our world.
Set to run from September until April 2010, the educational films are meant to establish [...]