La La Land: Bitterweet Eye Candy

Dane Dorius, Academics and Arts Editor, Ostensibly

February 9, 2017

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La La Land is a music romance starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Ryan Gosling plays Sebastian, a jazz pianist who aspires to bring jazz back to the mainstream and run his own club, and Emma Stone plays Mia, a struggling actress. The movie, like its characters, take the imagery, styles, and dreams of...

The Remorseful Review: Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Elizabeth Jackson, Reporter

February 8, 2017

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As the opening theme of the show warns viewers, to look away, look away I highly suggest you do the same with this review. The release of the Netflix original series A Series of Unfortunate Events was highly anticipated for many reasons. One being that the talented actor, Neil Patrick Harris graced us with his incred...

Moana

Sonja Paulson, Features and Profiles Editor

December 21, 2016

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Princesses have come, and princesses have gone. Moana is here to stay. As the only Disney princess movie without a love story entangled into it, Moana stands her ground as a strong female lead. Tapping into Polynesian culture, the movie accurate represents a world entirely new to what we have seen from s...

Arrival Review

Dane Dorius, Academics and Arts Editor

December 16, 2016

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Coming hot off the heels off of Sicario, a tense tale of cartels and a raid south of the border and Enemy, a strange, surreal, and nightmarish film that eludes one single genre, director Denis Villeneuve further shows his mastery of any type of film he tries his hand at with Arrival, which is the best science fiction ...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Sam Stuve, Reporter

December 9, 2016

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“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a solid Harry Potter series movie but often prioritizes setup over memorable drama or spellbinding action.” -Ben Kendrick (Screen Rant) “As promised, the title critters in Fantastic Beasts are whimsically entertaining and occasionally as entr...

Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life

McKenzie Reimer, Co-Editor In Chief

December 5, 2016

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By now, everyone and their dead ancestors should know that the popular TV show, Gilmore Girls, has returned for a 4 part miniseries on Netflix. If this is somehow new information to you, where have you been? Living under a rock? Gilmore Girls ran from 2000-2007 and stole the hearts of many. It stars...

Titanfall 2

Dane Dorius, Academics and Arts Editor

December 5, 2016

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Titanfall 2 is a new first-person shooter by Respawn, a team mostly made of the developers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and MW2. Taking place far into the future, the singleplayer and multiplayer deal with a struggle between two factions of humanity. You play as “Pilots,” elite troops who have ...

Dr. Strange Review

November 29, 2016

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Dr. Strange is a very different movie than what I was expecting from a Marvel movie. For frame of reference I have no experience with this character from the comics, in fact, I had very little knowledge about this movie going in. I was going in blind and was pleasantly surprised. Let’s talk abou...

World War Fun

Peter VanDerZanden, Reporter

November 17, 2016

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For the past few years big first person shooter franchises have been making games take place further and further into the future. A lot of member in the community wanted to see these game developers create a shooter that takes place in the past, or at least stop making games in the future. People wer...

Samuel L. Jackson

Sam Stuve, Reporter

November 8, 2016

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Samuel L Jackson is the highest grossing actors of all time. He has accumulated 4.3 billion dollars since he was in his first movie back in 1972. Samuel L Jackson has played a plethora of awesome roles in his career. From Coach Carter to Mace Windu in Star Wars I, II, and III, and many other notable roles in his illustrious career. Samuel L Jackson has app...