It may be a relatively slow weekend for big Hollywood releases. The book-turned-animated feature Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has taken a commanding role atop the box office list since opening last Friday. $20 million behind is The Informant, starring Matt Damon. Everything else seems to be scrap-metal or old news. My wife and [...]

Have you heard about ACORN? No? Hm. Everybody these days grows up indoctrinated in the virtues and heroism of reporters. We see movies that show us how brave and important they are — they expose corruption, help society become aware of problems and shed light on momentous events. They bring us the Truth. If it’s [...]

Last Friday, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs opened in wide release. If early reviews are to be trusted, this film adaptation of the beloved children’s book will be another entry into the growing corpus of animated films that delight kids, adults and critics. To mark the occasion, here is a list of ten animated [...]

Critics of health care reform, specifically of the public option, often point fingers at “socialized” countries and complain that they don’t want the government running their lives, both of which are logically unsound. Besides the fact that these “socialized” countries have better health care results for less money, opponents of real reform still refuse to [...]

If you’ve ever been to the Redbox machine, you know that 90 percent of the movies are absolutely silly. The Day the Earth Stopped is one of my favorites, even though I haven’t seen it. Mind you, this is not the same as The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves. So even though [...]

I’m starting my final year here at BYU and somehow I managed to never learn of the Mona rope swing until just about a month ago. As soon as I mentioned it to my friends, they all said something along the lines of, “Oh yeah, that’s a lot of fun! I went there over the [...]

While the media were atwitter this week with the unveiling of Max Baucus’ health care plan, average Americans were more invested in the unveiling of NBC’s The Jay Leno Show. Or at least, NBC hoped they would be. In reality, however, the show the Associated Press has described as a “grand experiment” has been met [...]

Isaac Russell, “Why” We here at Rhombus haven’t been shy about our feelings for RuRu — or Isaac Russell, as he’s now known. (No matter what Columbia Records calls him, he’ll always be plain old RuRu to us.) Provo’s own musical prodigy has blessed us all with so many great live shows over the years [...]

Week 3: BYU vs. Florida State Every once in a while it’s nice to eat a cupcake. These delicious baked goods are sweet and fluffy, but any more than two and you get bloated. Trust me, I know this from many years of overeating. The same philosophy goes for college football scheduling. Any team that [...]

Matt & Kim, “Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare” We featured this great minimalist Brooklyn dance-pop duo a couple months ago, but I couldn’t resist pulling this song up in light of this evening’s events. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, chances are you didn’t catch the pilot episode of NBC’s new comedy Community, [...]