We all like junk food. Yes, even you macrobiotic vegans, with your kale chips and soy- tempeh flaxseed meat alternatives. We’ve seen you face down in a basket of pomme frites, your hands dripping in wasabi mayo (the best mayo). This is because everyone loves to indulge themselves with a little junk, everyone enjoys some trashy non-nutritious fun on occasion.  So now, during this long finals week, don’t you need to indulge yourself in some intellectual potato chips and take a few moments to give your brain cells a break with some non-quality, quality viewing.

So, like the ad men on Mad Men arranging a “date” for some of their clients, we have assembled a few of the best options for some trashy, care free, instant fun: Read more…

Like a dark prophecy that fulfills itself with each semester, finals are quickly approaching. So with your tests, essays, and hours of Bobsting comes the need for the general comfort of nostalgia — especially in the form of some childhood favorites.

Rather than gather up the usual lineup of Hey, Arnold!  and The Lion King, we here at NYU Local searched through our instant queues for those alternative cult classics of our childhood. These are some of the best forms of entertainment from our generation that are not of the popular Disney-infested camp. We’ve got the movies and television shows that will tickle your fondness for the simpler days that do not get the TBS rerun treatment. Read more…

Let’s face it: Easter is like the Tara Reid of holidays. People care less and less about it each year. Somehow, the fun spirit of believing in a creepy bunny that delivers you fruity-colored eggs has vanished. So what are we left with? Easter is now just another holiday when we eat a bunch of food and then complain about going to the gym the next day.

Yes of course, Easter is about Jesus, our lord and savior (amen) – but if you’re Jewish, then Jesus is irrelevant. For all of NYU Local’s Jews out there too, Passover should be equally as fun this year and hopefully, your time celebrating the holiday passes over quickly. If not, NYU Local has comprised a list of movies help you realize what’s truly important this holiday season. Read more…

Let’s face it, the real world can suck. Over our time here at NYU we gradually get larger spoonfuls of what the big, bad adult world tastes like, which we slowly chew and swallow. Once we slip into it we fear that the location of our safety nets won’t be as clear, and the fall maybe longer than we imagined. The approaching vortex of the real world, with its standards of success, failure and casual office wear seems like a foreboding place to begin to inhabit — especially for those of us now approaching graduation.

That is why we’ve complied a list of films and shows at your Netflix streaming finger tips that are about all different kinds of failing. Each of these picks have something to say about a world of winners and losers. They’re all vague about sitting characters in either category too definitively actually. Through them we can begin to see failure not as some survival threatening complication, but a part of our existence that is useful for understanding the world around us, and ourselves. Read more…