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MOVIE REVIEW // FOOTLOOSE > Hollywood hits, indie flicks and everything in between
The original "Footloose" burst onto the screen in 1984, stealing the hearts of fans across the nation. You should careful when remaking a classic because fans already hold the movie to a high standard before it hits screens.
The movie starts with a group of drunk teenagers getting into a car crash. The five teens die instantly and the small southern town of Bomont, Georgia is shaken with grief and shock. It is here that we see Dennis Quaid as the Reverend Shaw Moore. It is his decision to ban dancing, music, drinking, or anything that could lead to a good time. He even gives the teens a curfew. And more importantly, he keeps his daughter Ariel Moore, played by Julianne Hough, away from her rebellious tendencies.
Fast forward three years and the new boy in town, Ren MacCormack, played by Kenny Wormald, moves into town. Ren can't get over the fact that he can't dance to blow off steam and blast his music from his Volkswagen. He soon finds a group of friends and is set on making the rebellious, unavailable, preacher's daughter his. All the pair needs to do is get rid of the ordinances.
The newest "Footloose" sticks close to the original plot. With Hough and Wormald wearing the same exact prom attire in the closing scenes, fans of the original will be surprisingly pleased at all of the similarities.
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MOVIE REVIEW // 50/50 > Hollywood hits, indie flicks and everything in between
"50/50" is the story of Adam, a 27-year-old man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. He hopes to survive the tribulation with the help of his girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard), best friend and roommate (Seth Rogen), therapist (Anna Kendrick), and mother (Angelica Huston).
An effective method in films dealing with a difficult subject is opening with humor then shifting to melancholy. As one would expect, Seth Rogen shines in the comedic first half, as does Anna Kendrick. It is important that after the story hits its comedic peak it must make a shift and drop in a dramatic valley.
Unfortunately, "50/50" never ventures deep enough. A second major fault is that no characters, other than Adam, feel fully developed, because the script spreads itself too thin between his complementary characters. Had it focused on one relationship more, and lessened the focus on others, the result would have been a better story.
Adam begins a romantic relationship with his therapist-in-learning (Kendrick), which might seem unethical to some, but the movie
basically rebuts with "Yeah, but she's cute, so you don't care, right?" And, no, I don't. "50/50" works better as a comedy than a drama, which seems unusual for a movie about a man dealing with cancer. The dramatic scenes tend to be so tame that it doesn't matter.
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FASHION REVIEW // RED PANTS
> Get it while it's haute
Red pants can be paired with a variety of tops and can easily be dressed up or down. Wear the bottoms with an animal print top, or a mint colored shirt with a floral pattern if you would like to enhance the bold colored pants. If the red jeans alone are wild enough for you, then try wearing the jeans with a simple white or lace top. Experiment with the wide variety of pant options to suit your fashion needs. You can find the red pants in chino style, skinny jeans, and even caaris.
The signature trend this autumn is red pants. Red bottoms sported by celebrities are now an everyday clothing article worn by individuals of all ages. They offer an effortless transformation from standard jeans to a more stylish option.
Students can also take the trend to a new level and wear them on game days. Use your red pants to complement a white or blue shirt and represent the Jayhawks in style. The basic version of pants is available for reasonable prices at Target.
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Sheanon Zenger didn't hire Gill. I doubt he feels any loyalty to the hire and probably wants to find his one guy for the job. And as a former assistant under Bill Snyder at Kansas State, Zenger knows football. In his search for a new head coach at Illinois State as athletic director there, Zinger once told a central Illinois newspaper that he consulted a number of former colleagues while searching for a head coach. That included the aforementioned Snyder, Mark Mangino, and former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach. That's an impressive group of football minds to get advice from. Zenger knows what he's doing, and if he can somehow get out of that horrendous contract handed out by his predecessor, Kansas football will be in good shape.
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in the penalty kick found as they defeated Kansas 5-3 at Blossom Soccer Stadium in San Antonio last night. At the end of regulation the score was tied at 3-3.
Attempting to stay poised in a stressful situation like this is key for the Jayhawks.
Kansas coach Mark Francis said it was frustrating for the match to come down to penalty kicks because the team should have won the game when they had a 2-0 advantage.
"I think you just have to keep it together and when something like that happens you need to be confident," junior midfielder Whitney Berry said.
Kansas forward Ingrid Vidal was stopped in the fourth round of penalty kicks, putting the game out of reach. However, many factors led to the result coming down to penalty kicks.
The jayhawks eventually were down 3-2, but when all hope seemed lost, the jayhawks made one final charge before time
Kansas was the aggressor for most the first half, pushing the tempo on Texas A&M.
After several solid attempts, junior forward Whitney Berry finally broke through with a goal in the 35th minute, giving Kansas a 1-0 lead. The strike was her eighth of the season. The assist on the play was from junior midfielder Shelby Williamson.
The Jayhawks continued to put out an aggressive defensive effort, only allowing six shots and one goal shot for the Aggies in the first half.
The Aggies came out in the second half with a purpose, and eventually drew a hand ball in the box when it accidently hit a Jayhawk defender's hand.
Kelley Monogue, a freshman from Texas A&M, then lined up for the penalty kick and striped a ball into the right corner of the goal. However, Kansas freshman goalkeeper Kaitlyn Stroud grasped the ball before it could touch the end line.
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In the 75th minute, Texas A&M tacked on another goal when Annie Kunz found a ball near the net, tying the game.
The Aggies then went on and scored for the third time when Big 12 scoring leader Monogue made a goal in the 79th minute.
"They scored three really good goals," Francis said. "They'd been attacking us out wide all day and we did a great job defending it, but we didn't on those three occasions."
Freshman defender Caroline Van Siambrouck covers her face in disappointment after a foul against Missouri that would lead to a penalty kick. Last night, the Jayhawks lost the game to penalty kicks in the final moments.
The first came in the 74th minute when Allie Bailey completed a cross to Merritt Mathias, putting the Aggies on the scoreboard.
goals of their own in less than five minutes.
In the second half the wind also began to blow violently against the Jayhawks, but the team realized that was nothing they could control.
Francis said it was a little factor that allowed the Aggies keep the pressure on the Jayhawks end of the soccer field.
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"I think we just try to keep our heads up," Kastor said. "This team
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Now the Jayhawks hope the effort on Wednesday will be good enough for them to get an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament.
deserves to go to the NCAA. I'm hoping we're going to keep playing."
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— Edited by Sarah McCabe
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