Category: Entertainment

The Village Café offers a big Greek welcome to all Chocolate Madonna and The Salad Sassinator / Foghorn staff As college students we can probably all agree that money is constantly an issue. We have tuition, books, bills and, most importantly, appetites. With that in mind, the Foghorn is continuing its mission of finding the best restaurants within walking distance of East Campus that offer a full meal, plus drink, for $10 or less. This week we decided to walk to The Village Café, at 920 Louisiana Ave. As usual, we’ve gone incognito to maintain the integrity of the review.…

Fans eagerly await midnight release of new game, are not disappointed Jonathan Garcia / Reporter Dozens of local gamers eagerly awaiting the recent release of “Destiny,” the newest first-person shooter for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, flocked to Gamestop on South Staples at Saratoga for a midnight release party on Sept. 8. Many set up tables outside the store as early as 9 p.m. to get their hands on the highly anticipated game developed by Bungie Studios, makers of the “Halo” trilogy. Gamestop, in addition to buying pizza for those waiting in line, hosted a “PlayStation:…

Victor Rhodes / Reporter “The Sims 4” was finally arrived on PC with a new and improved look. It was officially announced at Electronic Expo on June 6 by videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA) and developer EA Maxis. “The Sims 4” is part of a popular life simulation series, “The Sims,” created by video game designer Will Wright. In “Sims 4,” players create or control virtual characters known as “sims.” These sims can interact with other sims, do various real-life activities, have families, careers and live in pre-built or custom-built houses created by players. EA heavily marketed the Create-A-Sim feature. This…

Horror movie aims to gain scares, falls short By Jonathan Garcia / Reporter “As Above So Below” is a found-footage horror movie directed by John Erick Dowdle and starring Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman and Edwin Hodges. Found-footage style movies have been deeply criticized as a lazy way of filmmaking because even if the film is no good it still manages to make profit on opening weekend alone because of its low-budget ways. The film that overuses this style of filmmaking is the “Paranormal Activity” series, which has left a bad name for found-footage movies. This movie isn’t any different from the…