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By Jeremy Mauser || Staff Writer Bong Joon-ho, acclaimed director of the Academy Award’s most recent Best Picture, Parasite, caught the country’s attention when he offered the following comment at…
By: Danielle Rice || Arts & Leisure Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected many businesses and companies around the world, but it has also severely affected the film industry.…
By Kyra Lisse || Contributing Writer The scene opens to an adolescent boy, his face framed with curls, lying on his side atop a kitchen table. It is old…
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer As people living in a culture saturated with moving images, we have all acquired a degree of fluency in the language of film. Part of…
By Alice Lu || Staff Writer At the start of the year, renowned director M. Night Shyamalan released his thriller-horror film, Split. The film centers around a character with Dissociative…
By Jesika Islam || Arts & Leisure Editor Key and Peele is the brainchild sketch comedy of Michael Keegan and Jordan Peele that is arguably one of the funniest, socially…
By Jesika Islam || Arts & Leisure Editor The 89th Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, took place this past Sunday, February 26, 2017, and it was memorable one.…
By Jesika Islam || Assistant Arts & Leisure Editor On Valentine’s Day my roommates and I had the ingenious idea to go see the Fifty Shades Darker film, to simply…
By Jesika Islam || Layout Assistant After months of hearing friends, critics, and commercials praise La La Land I finally caved and decided to watch the Oscar nominated movie. Other…
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor The Bourne saga has been an interesting story to follow. A man wakes up without a clue as to who he is,…
By Caylah Coffeen || Contributing Writer I stagger out of the dance studio closet in my socks, heaving a stack of chairs across the room. My film professor hurries…
By Shaquille Galvan || Contributing Writer Last Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. The film is a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be…
By Joe Yamulla || Sports Editor Straight Outta Compton was a hit that concluded a Summer of good movies. The film was an absolute box office success that grossed $60,200,180…