Charity Cyclist Visits USD’s Campus
This past week, Ex-Royal Navy Submariner George Barks paid a visit to a University of South Dakota classroom to promote a Charity Cycle Across the USA to Build Futures Ghana. Barks is attempting to ride his bike across as many U.S. states as possible with the aim of raising awareness and donations to help remote […]
Movie Review: “Weapons”
First impressions can be a tricky thing to pull off, and rarely does a movie’s marketing capture my attention almost immediately while showing very little. The initial teaser for “Weapons”, released in April 2025, was heavily cryptic, showing only silhouettes of children silently running across a neighborhood in the middle of the night. This wordless […]
Vermillion Welcomes New Music Club
Earlier this month, it was announced that Vermillion’s own AV Lounge would be the setting for a brand new album club that invites music fans of all types to come together and talk about the different kinds of music. The first meeting, hosted by AV Lounge owner Joseph Raiche, will be on September 30th at […]
Summer 2025 Movie Preview
Here is a quick list of movies coming out this summer that I recommend keeping an eye out for. “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” (May 23) The recent Mission: Impossible films have shown themselves to be some of the best offerings the series has ever had, leaving me with much faith in this supposed […]
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
When people talk about anime films, the conversation usually relates to movies made by Studio Ghibli or are connected in some way to a popular television series. Rarely do films outside of these two criteria get mentioned in popular discussion, which is a shame. I’ve found many of these more obscure movies to be just […]
Movie Review: To Live is to die Again
For many people, their introduction to South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, was from the immense success of his previous film “Parasite” in 2019. His latest work, “Mickey 17,” pulls ideas from many of Joon Ho’s earlier works while also adapting the sci-fi novel “Mickey 7.” The film presents a fascinating dystopian sci-fi world that […]
Movie Review: The Brutalist
The opening scene of “The Brutalist” is spellbinding and gives the initial impression that this is a film that attempts to be larger than life. You begin with a dizzying closeup of our lead character, Lazlo Thoth, played by Adrian Brody, as he arrives in New York by boat after escaping the Holocaust. Thoth makes […]
Movie Review: The Original Vampire Rises Again
In our modern entertainment age, it is easy to be cynical about the number of remakes of older films there are over wholly original stories. Nowadays, I find myself far more interested in watching original movies over these remakes unless they truly do something unique with the source material. Robert Eggers’s film “Nosferatu” achieves that […]
Movie Review: A Chaotic, Funny Cinderella Story
“Anora” is one of those films that once I heard about it, I was curious as to what sort of a tone it would take its story in. Director Sean Baker’s films are primarily character pieces that focus on people who rarely get as much attention in the media. “Anora” fits this bill […]
Movie Review: Family Cares for Each Other, No Matter What
A Real Pain was a surprising film for me as until about a few weeks ago I had never even heard of it due to a severe lack of advertisement for the film. The film is directed by actor Jessie Eisenberg who in recent years has become more involved in cinema than just acting with […]