This Luc Besson film is a vivid portrayal of the life of a professional assassin. Jean Reno plays a skilled hitman who befriends a young, troubled Natalie Portman. Gary Oldman plays a short-tempered crooked cop who kills Portman’s family over a misplaced...

Pop-culture critic David Eggers theorizes we listen to songs to "solve" them. When a track loses its mystery, it loses its purpose. If so, The Cribs’ sophomore LP poses one riddle: "Where have we heard this before?" The English siblings’ mimicry is...

Scanning parking lots for damaged property and escorting students back to their dorms in the dark are typical job responsibilities for junior journalism major Tim Davis. Davis is a supervisor for the Huskie Student Patrol, one of 24 employed students...

Ever wish you could lay in bed every night, gazing up at the stars? For three girls in Douglas A, that’s exactly what they get to do. Lisa Gianpetro, a sophomore pre-elementary education major, Jacklyn Trznadel, a sophomore pre-elementary education...

The smell of alcohol in the air, loud cars peeling out and snack food everywhere. With this description, one would think it was a NASCAR race. But, sorry to disappoint, it’s DeKalb. It’s past midnight on Saturday. What is there to do? Well, if you’re...

Ready, set, spike! For more than a decade NIU’s faculty and staff have been getting together to play volleyball on their lunch breaks. No one is really sure why the weekly games got started, but according to Steven Lux, University Health Services health...

Wes Craven has a shaky relationship with the horror community. His "Nightmare on Elm Street" helped define the slasher genre in the 1980s, but his "Scream" movies openly mocked such conventions. After his last offering, "Cursed," proved to be too aptly-named...

It’s easy for someone to strap on a guitar, take their pent-up emotions and dedicate a whole album to a former flame. It’s easy because it’s been done to death. However, it’s tough to pull off a rebellious attitude when holding a mandolin or fiddle,...

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be middle-aged and still a virgin? According to this movie, it may not be so bad - unless of course, other people know about it. Andy (Steve Carell), aka "the forty year old virgin," is one such character....

Students will enjoy an improved Ruckus network this year after offering suggestions for improvement during last spring semester’s trial run in Grant and Stevenson towers. The network worked closely with NIU students by giving them a chance to offer...

This current Southern rock revival would be annoying except that, for the most part, bands in the genre all have one thing enjoyable about them. The Kings of Leon would be maddening if it weren’t for the smarmy attitude that oozes from each guitar lick....