Articles by Stewart Boss

When “Brooklyn’s Finest” starts, a cop tells a Catholic priest that he doesn’t want God’s forgiveness, just his help. From the outset it’s clear that this movie is going to be bleak.

The movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua, treading very much the same ‘bad cop’ territory he did in “Training Day.” That film won Denzel Washington an Oscar for his portrayal of a corrupt narcotics officer, and Fuqua shows the same knack for pulling out strong performances in “Brooklyn’s Finest.”

“The Crazies,” a remake of George Romero’s 1973 zombie flick, does basically what you’d expect it to — but it does it well.

In the span of 48 hours, the little Iowa town of Ogden Marsh (Pop. 1,260) winds up being taken over by its own townspeople, infected by an unexplained water-borne virus that makes the local residents bleed from their faces and get violently, incomprehensibly aggressive.

“Valentine’s Day,” the new movie by director Garry Marshall, markets the kind of chocolate-box love that ultimately makes you want to gag.

It’s a flat-out disaster, an undeniable mess that has been overstuffed with A-list actors who barely have enough screen time to make an impression.

The film follows a cast of more than 20 characters around Los Angeles on the titular holiday, making lowest-common-denominator jokes and gross generalizations on romance, marriage, cheating, loss, sex and commitment.

Student Congress is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars during the next month, but there are only a few days left until the deadline for student groups to apply.

The finance committee of Student Congress goes through an annual budget process, in which roughly $385,000 in student fees are given to fund student organizations.