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Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show: Kendrick Lamar brought the bars, but was it a touchdown performance?

Samantha Genzer February 10, 2025
The production was sleek, the performances were sharp and the creativity was undeniable. But when you stack it against Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, and Shakira-level halftime shows, it lacked that extra layer of spectacle that makes a Super Bowl performance legendary. Still, Lamar brought his signature storytelling, intricate visuals and undeniable talent to the biggest stage in the world, creating a show that was uniquely his.
"Captain Marvel" is the first female-led installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. The movie was released on March 8. COURTESY OF FLICKR.

REVIEW: ‘Captain Marvel’ is standard, perfectly fun

Tyler Anderson March 17, 2019
“Captain Marvel,” the first female led-installment in the 21-film long Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, feels like it falls short.
Eva Green plays Miss Peregrine in Tim Burton’s adaptation of “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.” PHOTO COURTESY LEAH GALLO

REVIEW: Tim Burton’s adaptation is unusually flat

Bronsen Bloom September 29, 2016

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” is a 2011 young-adult novel about a group of misfit kids with special abilities, called “peculiars,” and a collection of their old, eerie photographs....

Colin Firth stars as Harry Hart (left), a spy who helps Eggsy, played by Taron Egerton, apply for Kingsman, a top-secret independent intelligence organization in “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” released Friday. PHOTO COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION

REVIEW: “Kingsman” offers bloody, but bloody good, thrills

Conner Reed February 13, 2015

Just over halfway through Matthew Vaughn’s new spy thriller, “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” Academy Award-winner and coiffed human teacup Colin Firth dryly utters this sentence: “I am a Catholic...

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ packs more action, substance than first installment

Daily Free Press Admin April 10, 2014

Unless you have been hiding under a particularly large and soundproof rock over the last couple of years, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ve heard of The Avengers , the 2012 superhero movie that combined...

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