Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
The Bradley Scout
Real life is hard. College is expensive, the economy is awful and cable news is constantly preaching the end of the world as we know it. With that said, who can really blame anyone for wanting to escape all of that for a half an…
The Bradley volleyball team finished the non-conference portion of its schedule winning two of three games in the Coastal Carolina Classic last weekend. The Braves defeated Iona and Gardner-Webb 3-0 and 3-1, respectively. Against Iona, sophomore Alise Tupuritis recorded a career high 17 kills and…
45 years ago this month, a new television show debuted “The Man Trap” aired on NBC. Star Trek premiered with this episode, beginning one of the most successful franchises in television history, including five different series, along with 11 movies. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of…
CNN’s Peter Bergen spoke to a full house last Thursday about the reshaping of the Muslim community addressing events like the Arab Spring, and how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the general direction of the United States. Bergen is CNN’s National Security Analyst, an…
Bradley student identification cards have under gone a major facelift, providing new features and tools for the convenience of students. The new ID cards serve the same functionality as the older ones, but now they have several added bonus features such as access to dormitory…
Ten years ago, FX was one of the most useless and rightly forgotten networks on basic cable, showing non-stop reruns of some of the worst sitcoms of the late ’90s, namely Just Shoot Me, the later, Charlie Sheen-dominated seasons of Spin City, Dharma and Greg…
Peoria has always been a city that was in desperate need of realizing that it had become a college town. Barring a few friendly establishments downtown and the rote businesses that catered solely to college students around campus, there’s not much to let residents know…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made it easy to see the movies that have recently come to DVD and be able to enjoy them whenever you desire. Of course, instant view services are also loaded with discarded and forgotten films that only occasionally show…
Like nearly all of his films, Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” is hyper violent, disturbing and cerebral as an examination of violence in culture. But “Straw Dogs” was not a box office success. According to imdb.com, the film only grossed just over $11 million worldwide. In…