Movie reviews

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: 3 minutes Sex Drive Teen comedy dives into R-rated trend Photo credit: Summit Entertainment According to mainstream Hollywood, sex is the only thing on every teenage boy’s mind. He will do anything get it. Ian is still a virgin. And because of peer pressure and hormones, he’s working as hard as he can to change that.

A Victorian secret

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Turn of the Screw is a tale of ghosts. Or is it? For those familiar with the Henry James novella from which the play was adapted, you might recall the psychological nature of the work. SCREW is praised as a work that has the ability to create fear and horror without detailing gore.

The heroine, the scientist, and the transvestite

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute To complement the new Cinema Studies minor in the English department, students have created a new club. Thus far, the cinema studies club has sponsored two cult-film screenings, Evil Dead 2 and Dr. Strangelove. This Thursday, the club, along with the Gay-Straight Alliance, will show the classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the LA building.

The only election that really matters

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: 3 minutes As election day fast approaches, a mystifying number of Utahans actually seem excited to get out there and cast a vote that, let’s face it, won’t count. If you’re an idealist, you no doubt read the previous sentence with a quietly dignified feeling of moral superiority and a smug smirk that sarcastically screams, “Oh, a cynic.

Reading for pleasure

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes Looking for something good to read between classes? This week’s featured book is Graham Greene’s acclaimed Vietnam novel, The Quiet American. If you like what you read, this book is available for checkout in the library. For more information on Greene’s life or novels you can go to http://members.

New Coffee Pod opens in Zoobieville

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes For obvious reasons, a coffee drinker’s options are limited in the Provo/Orem area. But at long last, Coffee Pod is now open near the border between the cities. Though it may be located near downtown Zoobieville, Provo’s disenchanted coffee lovers are gravitating toward the Pod.

Nosferatu

October 27, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last year I wrote that UVU’s growing theater department hit puberty with their production of Canyon Suite in December. Nosferatu, however, proves that the awkward stage is over. Theater is essentially storytelling, and in Nosferatu, director Christopher Clark approached the art’s basic function in a way seldom seen in theatrical nuclei like New York or San Francisco — much less in Happy Valley.

Look up in the sky

October 13, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes All-Star Superman is awesome. Let’s just get that out in the open to start off. This book is fantastic in nearly every sense of the word. If you like comic books, you need to read this, no question about it. Now, Superman is a hard sell these days, I realize.

David Archuleta is Now Bigger Than Ever

October 13, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute American Idol star David Archuleta is now bigger than he has ever been. Covering 12 acres Archuleta’s face along with the slogan “Archuleta for President” is cut into a large corn field at Thanksgiving Point for the Cornbelly’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Fest. The original idea was to do cut out the faces of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain but ultimately ended up deciding on Utah’s own David Archuleta.

Campus Style

October 13, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute With this photo the UVU Review officially begins it’s Campus Style section. Be sure to dress well in case you come across our photographers!