Asian American Cultural Center open house unites community By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Oct 5, 2025
College publications speak with ‘Seen on the Screen’ host By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 28, 2025
[Photo] Ebertfest connects film lovers, celebrates Roger Ebert’s legacy By Annisyn Krebs-Carr and Calissa Stevens • Apr 24, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2: Playing with power comes at an expense By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 4, 2025
‘Top Gun’ and ‘Batman Forever’ actor Val Kilmer dead at 65 By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 2, 2025
buzz predicts 2025 Academy Award winners By Gibson Asselmeier, Park Mitchell, Nicolas Roacho and Thomas O’Sullivan • Feb 23, 2025
Review | ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is neither brave nor new By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Feb 20, 2025
Column | ‘The Brutalist’ serves as reminder that AI in movies isn’t okay By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Feb 4, 2025
‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Wicked’ lead the 97th annual Academy Award nominations By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Jan 23, 2025
Review | ‘The Brutalist’ architects powerful narrative By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Jan 18, 2025
Review | ‘Marvel Rivals’ excels for Marvel’s true believers By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 24, 2024
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin creeps its way into The Canopy Club By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 16, 2024
‘ASTRO BOT,’ ‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ lead Game Awards nominations By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Nov 20, 2024
Column | Why Talking Heads will never ‘Stop Making Sense’ By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Oct 25, 2024
Review | The joke’s on whoever watches ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Oct 14, 2024
Review | ‘Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics’ brings classic arcade games to modern audiences By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Sep 24, 2024
Review | ‘Speak No Evil’ doesn’t have anything new to say By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Sep 20, 2024
UI announces record enrollment, largest ever freshmen class By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Sep 12, 2024
Review | ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ is a fun successor to the classic film By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Sep 9, 2024
Midwestern rabbis discuss campus antisemitism, community issues at UI By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Aug 12, 2024
Review | ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ brings back fan-favorite characters, but at what cost? By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Jul 31, 2024
Column | ‘Avengers: Endgame’; 5 years since the MCU changed forever By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 27, 2024
Review | ‘Invincible’ returns with a powerful second season By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 16, 2024
‘50 years of Kansas’ and they still electrify the audience at Virginia Theatre By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 15, 2024
Review | ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire;’ When is nostalgia too much? By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 5, 2024
Review | ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is mind-numbing, monster sized fun By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Apr 3, 2024
Review | ‘Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth’ breaks all of its limits By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Mar 30, 2024
‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan to receive knighthood By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Mar 28, 2024
Best of CU | Best Off-Campus Entertainment: AMC Champaign 13 By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Mar 28, 2024
Review | ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ plays it safe with disappointing sequel By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Mar 12, 2024
96th Academy Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ drops the bomb, takes Best Picture By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Mar 11, 2024
Review | ‘Dune: Part Two’: A modern sci-fi classic unlike anything else By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Feb 29, 2024
Review | ‘Madame Web’: $10 and 116 minutes I’ll never get back By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Feb 20, 2024
Review | Billy Joel returns with emotional ballad ‘Turn the Lights Back Onʼ By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Feb 4, 2024
Review | The Last of Us Part II Remastered is a great upgrade for a not-so-great price By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Jan 30, 2024
96th Oscar nominations see ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things’ dominate By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Jan 23, 2024
Review | buzz picks the best films of 2023 By Dhruv Baronia, Saagar Kolachina and Nicolas Roacho • Jan 9, 2024
buzz picks the most anticipated video games of 2024 By Pratim Vasireddy and Nicolas Roacho • Jan 3, 2024
Column | Is ‘The Exorcist’ still the ‘scariest movie of all time’ 50 years later? By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 26, 2023
Review | ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ is a disappointing farewell to the DCEU By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 24, 2023
Jonathan Majors found guilty for harassment, assault, dropped by Marvel By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 18, 2023
The fifth day of buzzmas | Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie? By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 18, 2023
Review | ‘Wonka’ excels musically, brings fun addition to original story By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 18, 2023
The Game Awards 2023: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ awarded Game of the Year By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 8, 2023
Review | ‘Godzilla Minus One’ contains awesome carnage, humanizes characters well By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Dec 3, 2023
Review | ‘The Marvelsʼ shows that the MCU continues to decline in quality By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Nov 15, 2023
‘Alan Wake 2,’ ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ lead The Game Awards nominations By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Nov 13, 2023
Review | ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ swings its way to greatness on PS5 By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Nov 13, 2023
Column | Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’ is still perfect 50 years later By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Nov 9, 2023
SAG-AFTRA reaches deal with entertainment companies, ending 118-day strike By Nicolas Roacho, Staff Writer • Nov 8, 2023
Review | ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ tries to please hardcore fans, fails to please general audiences By Nicolas Roacho and Kiran Bond • Oct 29, 2023
‘Friends’ actor Matthew Perry dies at 54 By Lillie Salas, Nicolas Roacho and Kiran Bond • Oct 28, 2023
Column | ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a triumph, stays true to Osage culture By Nicolas Roacho, Contributing Writer • Oct 22, 2023
Review | ‘The Boys’ spinoff ‘Gen V‘ starts super-strong By Nicolas Roacho, Contributing Writer • Oct 2, 2023
Review | What to know about ‘Saw Xʼ before watching By Nicolas Roacho, Contributing Writer • Sep 30, 2023