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Want to get out of your dorm and take a study break but don’t know where to go? Then head on over to the High Bridge Trail, the longest recreational bridge in Virginia, located in and around Farmville.
Just about five miles down the road from Longwood University lies a restaurant which offers unique cuisine and the chance for Longwood students to try something new. The Fishin' Pig, located on Farmville Road, is considered a halfway point between Longwood and Hampden-Sydney College.
After opening in 1994, Main Street Lanes has remained one of the most entertaining places in town because it provides a plentiful amount of activities students can participate in.
Out of the many restaurants in Farmville, Macado's is one of the most popular eateries to choose from. First established in Roanoke, Virginia in 1978, the restaurant expanded to Farmville in 1984 and has also expanded to other college towns in Virginia.
High wooden ceilings and a classic, rustic interior make up Charley’s Waterfront Cafe, a restaurant tucked away and hidden off of Farmville’s Main Street. Though affectionately called a “cafe,” Charley’s Waterfront is so much more than that. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with an array of desserts catered by Farmville’s very own Mill Street Sweets Bakery.
Situated on the Main Street strip amidst furniture and book stores, a quaint cafe where students and residents of Farmville go to socialize stands tall. Uptown Coffee Cafe has served the community since the summer of 2014 and has continued to thrive.
Just around the corner from Macado’s, there’s a little theater most in Farmville know. While it doesn’t have the glitz and glamour of a theater the size of an office building, Sunchase Cinema 8 has a special place in the hearts of many of Farmville’s residents.
Quentin Tarantino sure does love his revisionist history. That fact shouldn’t be too out of the blue for anyone who has any knowledge of his previous films. “Django Unchained” and “Inglorious Bastards,” two films most argue are Tarantino’s best, are known for injecting a bad-ass good guy wins in the end style to their historically based plots.
How does one follow the end times? Well, director Jon Watts (“Cop Car,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and writers Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna (both “The LEGO Batman Movie,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp”) decided to follow the end times with a vacation, taking one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) smaller scale heroes on a globe-trotting adventure with “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”
What does a filmmaker owe their audience? The argument can be made that people who decide to buy a ticket to “King of the Monsters” know what they’re getting themselves into. They want to see big monsters fight, so why bother trying to do more? This kind of an excuse is why genre films have languished in the realm of laughability for decades and why the few that do break out (“Godzilla (2014),” “Mad Max Fury Road,” “Logan”) make such an impact.
There are a fair number of comparisons to be made with “Rocketman” to last year’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The crossover in directors and characters, both centering on LGBTQ+ musicians with drug problems considered to be legendary musicians and both featuring extravagant costumes.
The John Wick series is about two things: professionals and consequences. You’d be hard-pressed to find action films so meticulously obsessed with justifying the events that take place within their world and aren’t based in some other reality. This series that Keanu Reeves (“The Matrix,” “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”), director Chad Stahelski (“John Wick,” “John Wick Chapter 2”) and writer Derek Kolstad (“The Package (2013),” “John Wick,” “John Wick Chapter 2”) created, seems determined to be as elaborate and detailed as possible, in both its action and its mythology.
Sometimes, even the best films in a genre can lack that special something that makes them truly stand out. As good as movies like “Blockers,” “America Pie,” “Superbad” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” are, most are capable of providing laughs and that’s about it.
Becoming the Athletic Director at Longwood University was not something Michelle Meadows, former interim athletics director, saw happening. For 13 years she worked alongside former Athletics Director Troy Austin as someone he could share ideas with to better the athletics program.
There are two ways to judge “Pokémon Detective Pikachu": either compared to the general culture and craft of films as a whole, or to the specific category of video game movies. That body of work hasn’t exactly set the world on fire- while there are box office hits like “Rampage (2018)” or “Warcraft,” you’d be hard pressed to find a game adaptation the general populous would agree on as being good.
Seth Rogen’s latest feature has remarkably less drug-induced chaos than previous works. Along with a myriad of other small changes, that makes his latest film “Long Shot” immediately feel distinct, even for someone who’s filmography includes a stoner Christmas flick, a biopic about a master of trash cinema and an R-rated Pixar parody.
Part of the journey is the end: this line quoted by virtually every piece of “Endgame” marketing material is undoubtedly true. Whether it went on for ten years or a hundred years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) crescendoing story-line would eventually come to its conclusion; its “Endgame.”
Throughout my time at Longwood, I have been a part of several different organizations. By far, The Rotunda has been one of my favorite. Though I have only been in the organization for a short time, saying goodbye is hard.
For the last Rotunda edition of the 2018-19 year and as campus gets ready for finals week and graduation, I found it fitting to write my first "Letter from the Editor" as the new Editor-in-Chief.
Senior Class Council
