After performing for two consecutive nights at Estrella Negra and the House of Blues, the guys of Latin rock band Making Movies were thrilled to be playing once again at the Cobra Lounge for their weekend tour in Chicago.   Making Movies, originally from Kansas City, Mo, is made […]

Period pieces can be hit or miss in film. Sometimes retelling a historical event can lead some filmmakers to take certain dramatic freedom with true occurrences. However, “Even the Rain” is able to eschew these issues by placing a fictional drama inside an actual historical occurrence. The result is […]

#8220;Unknown” feels like a familiar beast. An ambiguous trailer shows you just enough of the plot to get you interested and scratching your head. You know what to expect when you buy the ticket, a high-octane thriller with suspicious characters and a head turning conspiracy plot, and frankly, that is […]

From what originally started as an extremely random crossover game, “Marvel vs. Capcom” has developed an amazing fan following from both professional and casual gamers alike. So much to the point where a sequel was created 2000 that to this day is considered to be one of the best fighting […]

When someone says the phrase “epic fail” in real life, I roll my eyes. It’s trendy, not really that funny, and often, over-exaggerated. But as I sat in Dark Cloud: Urban Coffee Lab, located at 2122 N Halsted St. on a Friday afternoon, the phrase did come to mind. Before […]

For many Americans, there tends to be a yearning for that nostalgic, down-home southern rock sound—not the sound that you’ll find yourself hearing in a grocery store ten years later, but that sentimental, true-to-its-roots southern authenticity that doesn’t try to please everyone but succeeds in rocking your socks off; it […]

Omega Phi Beta held a screening of the documentary, On the Edge: The Femicide in Cuidad Juarezbased on the “brutal murders of 400 poor young women in the border town of Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.” The film, directed by Steev Hise, sets out to explore the social, cultural, and economic factors […]

Despite the 17-hour time difference between Sydney and Chicago, meeting Nik Kaloper of The Jezabels via Skype shed some light on topics like the band’s choice of name, touring with Tegan and Sara, and why they don’t want to be boxed off as just one genre. With three EP’s out […]

Oscar season is upon us; it is time for the Academy to look back on its achievements this past year, and pat itself on the back. However, there is always a discrepancy between what the fans (and sometimes the critics) want and what the Academy deems to be the best […]

The Anime Club’s bi-monthly Game Night was held in SU- 003 on the evening of Jan. 21; the selection of games included BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Halo Reach, as well as card games like Dragon Shield, Magic, and UNO. “Game night is one of the events [that’s] free for NEIU students—everybody […]