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True or false: rating TV’s dorm depictions

By Britnee Meiser / Staff Writer November 13, 2015

Small dorms, nonexistent closets, communal bathrooms, annoying roommates — these grievances compose the reality of college housing. Sure, it’s entertaining to see how the other — fictional —...

Film frontier: Pittsburgh in the movies

By Nick Mullen & Jack Trainor / Culture Staff November 13, 2015

Hollywood is beginning to discover the City of Bridges as the next city of movie sets. In recent years, Pittsburgh has served as a blue-collar backdrop for a multitude of notable films and genres, from...

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The spy who lost me: ‘Spectre’ disappoints

By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer November 12, 2015

'Spectre' Starring: Daniel Craig, Christolph Waltz Directed by: Sam Mendes Grade: C+ As Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig returned after the dizzying Bond bliss of “Skyfall,” fans were likely expecting...

Star Wars countdown: ‘Episode II: Attack of the Clones’

By Walter Howard November 12, 2015

Welcome to the “Star Wars” countdown and may the Force be with you. Each week leading up to the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” The Pitt News will retroactively review the “Star Wars”...

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay star in "Room." (Ruth Hurl/Element Pictures)

‘Room’ holds delicate, masterful performances

By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer November 10, 2015

"Room" Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson Starring: Brie Larson, Joan Allen, Jacob Tremblay Grade: A Some films try to make you see the world in a new way, while “Room” makes you feel like you’re...

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Star Wars countdown: “Episode I: The Phantom Menace”

By Amanda Reed / for The Pitt News November 5, 2015

Welcome to the “Star Wars” countdown and may the Force be with you. Each week leading up to the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” The Pitt News will retroactively review the “Star Wars”...

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ReelAbilities empowers disabled

By Rio Maropis / Staff Writer October 29, 2015

Thursday night, Dan McCoy will explain how he became a Paralympic gold medalist before graduating college. McCoy, a junior communications major, earned his spot on the U.S. men’s Paralympic sled hockey...

Rocky Horror Picture Show celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.  Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Don’t dream it, be it: ‘Rocky Horror’ offers creative outlet

By Rio Maropis / Staff Writer October 27, 2015

Carlisle Walker’s performance in Pitt’s 2014 run of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”  became an intimate, personal transformation in front of 500 audience members. “It was one of the reasons...

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A walk to remember: Zemeckis baths tightrope stunt in beauty

By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer October 14, 2015

If you didn’t see enough  of Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 2008’s documentary “Man on Wire,” Petit gets the grand-scale cinematic treatment  he deserves...

Matt Damon in "The Martian." (20th Century Fox)

Space oddity: ‘The Martian’ rewrites galactic genre

By Valkyrie Speaker / Staff Writer October 12, 2015

Space may be an empty void, but that doesn’t mean films about space have to be. “The Martian” launched into theatres with a staggering opening gross of over $54 million, and has been orbiting the...

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