There were countless indications that the film adaptation of "The Giver" would be a letdown: the constant production delays, the dumping-ground release date; the casting of Taylor Swift. I regret to...

Sofia Villareal "Ultraviolence" (Album) Lana Del Rey's album "Ultraviolence" doesn't exactly summon feelings of excitement or joy, but, then again, not many of her songs do. However, it is fun to...

The Renaissance writer Erasmus once summed up his life philosophy as follows: "When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes." It is, I think, an honorable sentiment....

Of all the Reading TUgether books I've read during my time at Trinity, it seems to me that Raymond Bonner's "Anatomy of Injustice" is, the most relevant. Coming to this realization was both encouraging...

Welcome Week is a beloved tradition, offering new students a chance to explore Trinity's history, learn its rules, meet its students and pet the campus cats for the first time. Here's a guide to some of...

I have been thinking about "The Lego Movie" for two days straight now, and my brain shows no signs of letting up. I certainly did not walk into a movie about talking toys with the expectation that it...

To look back on Philip Seymour Hoffman's highly variegated, tragically short career is to see before you a gallery of characters who could've easily been camera-hugging caricatures. A technician working...

In our popular culture, we deem something "revolutionary" just about every other month. If revolutions were this frequent, we would not even have a stable status quo to revolt against, for God's sake. Therefore,...

Since I last wrote for the Trinitonian in early December, I have noticed two major trends in the world at large. First, Chris Christie can do nothing right. And second, it would seem that Jennifer Lawrence...

Rather than simply regurgitate my own utterly incoherent and random holiday reading list or start foisting my all-time favorites on you, I thought I would instead offer a list of books that, in this avid...

In a few more weeks, yet another year of cinematic highs and lows shall be left behind us. It was not a great one, like last year, which brought us everything from "Les Misérables" to "Moonrise Kingdom,"...

Although Thanksgiving is and forever will be my favorite holiday, I must admit that it has yet to really impact popular culture in the way that Christmas has. There's no Thanksgiving music channel on XM....