Sander Lutz I would like to disclaim that I thought I would be the first person in a line of many to hate “Girls” with a vengeful, spitting, furious passion. Everything it stands for, from the sickly...

Coming-of-age stories are, by definition self-indulgent. Filmmakers generally take material from their own lives, essentially saying, “look how interesting I am!” Most of the time that’s easy to...

Remember that scene from “Inception,” where Leonardo DiCaprio is in a dream and Paris starts folding in on itself, until there’s a city upside down above the city he’s in? Well, that lasted...

The main compliment people have given Sam Raimi’s “Oz the Great and the Powerful” is “well, it’s better than ‘Alice in Wonderland.” It’s pretty faint praise, but the movie looked like...

26 different directors were chosen to work on “The ABCs of Death,” a new kind of experiential project that is "Based on a nightmare by Ant Thompson." Each director was given a letter from the alphabet...

The online radio company Pandora has implemented new hourly limits on music listening, which went into effect on March 1. The new rule limits free account holders to listen to 40 hours a week of music...

Why are we obsessed with the world ending? It’s as if we all want the world to end, to the extent that we’ll search and search for the next doomsday prophecy to be terrified of. From Y2K to 2012,...

I wrote about the trend of big-budget action movie adaptations of fairy tales only a few weeks ago with the deplorable “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” but already there’s another to add to...

This issue forward, The Tam News will be moderating a new sort of competition. Each month, we will run a cartoon in search of a caption. After the closing of the submission period, our editors will...

Oh, “Die Hard.” How I loved you. How I loved the way you turned such a simple premise into a near-perfect action movie. How I loved the way you introduced us to Bruce Willis, now an action star...

Whether Valentine’s Day held a significant place in your heart or you’d rather spend the day treating it like the rest of the days in the year, it was very noticeable that Tam students were still able...