The action-adventure game, Red Dead Redemption was developed by Rockstar San Diego and released in 2009. It’s one of the only games that allow the player to experience a different country, namely Mexico, as you move through the campaign. Mo Van Barr is a western-style minor villain and the second leader of an outlaw gang […] Read more

In the 2005 political action film V for Vendetta, an anarchist and a freedom fighter try to ignite a revolution by instigating terrorist acts. The main character, V, takes over a T.V. broadcast with the purpose of provoking unrest. His speech is a call to arms, and it has been used by libertarian leaders and […] Read more

Retired sportscaster Vin Scully is well known for his 67 seasons behind the microphone calling Major League Baseball games. He had the second-longest tenure of any professional broadcaster in sports history. During his record-breaking term as the Los Angeles Dodgers play-by-play announcer, he also called for a variety of football, baseball, and golf contests for […] Read more

Michael Jackson’s classic hit “Thriller” has great makeup, costumes, and a high-energy pop sound that made him a legacy. In 1982 Jackson created a music video that started a trend of theatrical, dramatic arrangments with a balance of dance-floor beat and Broadway-style narrative. His interest in horror movies led naturally to collaborating with Vincent Price, […] Read more

Vita est Lavorum is pseudo-Latin for “life is a job” and was made familiar by Father Guido Sarducci. In the late 1970s, comedian and writer Don Novello created this fictional character and made prominent appearances on Saturday Night Live. Father Sarducci is a priest, a US gossip columnist, and a rock critic for a Vatican […] Read more

The third-worst poetry in the known universe is Vogon poetry. That of the Azgoths of Kria is the second worse. Grunthos the Flatulent recited his poem Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning when four listeners died of internal hemorrhaging. Plus, the president of the Mid-Galactic […] Read more

W. C. Fields, also known as William Claude Dukenfield was an American actor, writer, juggler, and comedian who attained international success. He started with vaudeville and then incorporated comedy and performed his act in the Ziegfeld Follies for years. As a Broadway musical comedian, he played the con man, scoundrels, and an intoxicated egotist who […] Read more

This biographical sports drama tells the story of a plane crash that killed 75 people, many of them players of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team. In the wake of the tragedy, the community pulls together to rebuild the football program and heal as a community.     […] Read more

The 2002 drama was based on the book, We Were Soldiers Once… and Young and shows the role of the battalions of the 7th Calvary in the first large-scale battle of the Vietnam War. It is about soldier loyalty, uncommon valor, and nobility. The movie was praised for its portrayal of the sacrifice and heroism […] Read more