Halloween Movie Reviews
Erika Glass, Staff Writer
October 25, 2020
With Halloween just around the corner, and the gradual arrival of fallen leaves, brisk air and pumpkin scents, it’s time to curl up with a cozy blanket and a good movie to help get you into the season. One movie, “Girl vs. Monster,” brings back 2010s Disney nostalgia and is abou...
Cuties review
Rachel King, Staff Writer
October 7, 2020
“Cuties” is a movie by French director Maïmouna Doucouré that was recently released on Netflix in the US after coming out in France about a year ago. Upon the US release, “Cuties” was met with backlash—critics and movie fanatics condemned the film for oversexualizing the young actresses i...
The Social Dilemma review
Emilie Takahashi, Staff writer
October 1, 2020
Halfway through watching “The Social Dilemma,” I deleted YouTube and Instagram off of my phone, and in the next few days I stayed off of my phone religiously. “The Social Dilemma” is a documentary that gets expert testimony from tech developers that are “sounding the alarm on their own creat...
Trina and Mia’s Movie Recommendations
September 30, 2020
“Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons: the Movie” by Trina Kolas With plans to be a twelve-episode web series on CW Seed, this idea was eventually scrapped in favor of releasing the first episode to the official website, and repurposing all twelve episodes into a 90-minute movie, which was rele...
New and not so improved
Nadia Bidarian, Features Editor
September 7, 2020
★★★☆☆ Despite the changes Disney’s live-action “Mulan” employed to separate itself from the original 1998 film— no singing, no sidekick Chinese dragon Mushu and the removal of Mulan’s love interest, army captain Li Shang— the latest “Mulan” film is more dry and predictable than an...
The feline film is a flop
Grace McGonigle, Editor-in-Chief
January 30, 2020
The time I spent watching Cats is one hour and 49 minutes of my life I will never get back. Cats, which premiered on Dec. 20, had all the right ingredients for success. The inspiring musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history. With an all-star cast ...
Long awaited
Harper Lee Jones, Staff Writer
November 12, 2019
Formulated two decades ago, Gemini Man finally managed to move through its development to be shown on the big screens this year. The final product has recently made the news for its many negative reviews, reviewers such as nypost calling it “an often-draggy, muddled misfire.” However, after seeing...