UNews won second place for best overall newspaper and a total of 14 awards during last week’s Missouri College Media Association (MCMA) awards. Competing in Division I against the largest schools in Missouri, the newspaper built on last year’s success and earned two additional...

When a big-budget, studio tentpole film fails to deliver, the experience of watching them is often similar. They are overly long and cliched-to-death mechanical messes that care little for quality once people have bought their tickets. “Wonder Woman: 1984” (also known as...

“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” also known as “Borat 2,” is the only pleasant surprise to come out of 2020 so far. Having brought great shame on Kazakhstan after the...

“Tenet” is a bad movie, and not just by its director Christopher Nolan’s (one of Hollywood’s most bankable directors) standards. It is genuinely, for the most part, unentertaining and sometimes a downright chore to sit through. The film follows an unnamed spy (played...

The first trailer for the much anticipated “The Batman” has finally emerged from the shadows.  Matt Reeves (director of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”) will direct the new film starring everybody’s favorite smelly sad boy, Robert Pattinson, as the titular...

“Listen to me. If we break quarantine, we could all die.” These lines are spoken by Ellen Ripley in the film “Alien” after a fellow astronaut has been exposed to an extraterrestrial organism of unknown origin. Everyone else wants to bring him onto their ship to save...

With the US now in an official state of emergency due to COVID 19 outbreak, everything from concerts to sporting events to film releases, are being put on indefinite hold. Here’s a list of all the events and places in Kansas City that have been postponed and/or canceled. St....

The golden nugget any good horror story needs is a monster that reflects some broader human fear. “The Invisible Man”, despite ultimately becoming more of a creepy science fiction film than an outright horror, plays with the creeping sensations of being watched by something...

When Margot Robbie made her debut as the insane clown criminal Harley Quinn in 2016’s “Suicide Squad”, it seemed like a match made in movie heaven. Except that “Suicide Squad” is a truly awful movie, quickly nixing the prospects of seeing more Quinn anytime soon. Now,...

Movies are an American invention, but film is a universal language. From the artform’s most adolescent moments, people from around the world have been putting stories on film. But there seems to be a divide with American movie-goers between foreign and non-foreign films....

The Kansas City Chiefs are a big deal right now, what, with securing their first Super Bowl game in 50 years (but you probably knew that). It’s hard to throw a rock in Kansas City and not hit a Chiefs fan right now, whether they be lifelong or just since the AFC game. The...

Movies like “Little Women” do not come around all that often. Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, it’s a masterful fusion of filmmaking, acting and storytelling that impresses as much as it touches the soul. Set during and after the American Civil War,...

As another semester of UMKC begins, so does another round of theater productions by the UMKC Conservatory. The first comes as early as Jan. 21 with “The White Rose: We Defied Hitler,” written by David Meyers and directed by Jeff Church. A co-production with the Coterie...

Mac Miller had a tumultuous first half of 2018 that saw him go through a very public split with long-time girlfriend Ariana Grande and a DUI charge. In August of that year, he released his fifth album “Swimming”. This album, despite the seemingly downward spiral he was in,...

First and foremost, The Academy Awards do not matter. The merit of a film and the talent of those who made it is in no way dependent on how many statues of naked gold men they get and the ceremony is basically just a place for rich producers to pat themselves on the back. That...

How do you make a sequel to something like “The Shining?” It’s a tall order for even the most seasoned horror director. However, after helming last years fantastic Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House,” Mike Flanagan seemed as up to the task as anybody. Still...