No Reason to Close the Shutter

By Peter Tran, staff writer
Coming off of his Oscar-winner The Departed (2006), world-renown director Martin Scorsese returns with his most recent film Shutter Island (2010).  The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio in his fourth collaboration with the famed director as Teddy Daniels, a duly appointed Federal Marshal assigned to the craggy Shutter Island to find a [...]

Dear John – A Review

By Marwa Aboubaker, Staff Writer

Like many other romantic films, Dear John wasn’t in my favorites. If you’ve ever read books by Nicholas Sparks, you’ll notice that his storylines are generally the same. Two people fall in love in a short amount of time and of course, in nowhere else than North Carolina. In the opening [...]

Sherlock Holmes: A Discussion

By Thomas Panaccione, Staff Writer
Chances are you’ve already heard about the new Sherlock Holmes that has been playing in theaters since Christmas Day.  Talk about the movie has also reached most of everyone as well, and so the movie can still serve an article of discussion.  Commencing!
When Guy Richie first talked about his plans to [...]

Amelia: Flying High in the Sky

By Briana Nickol Staff writer
George Putnam:  Amelia, why do you fly?
Amelia:  Well, why does a man ride a horse?
George Putnam: A man rides a horse because he wants to.
Amelia smiles.
The quote above is from the movie Amelia, the life story of the brave and courageous Amelia Earhart, who embarked on courageous adventures in aviation during [...]

Ponyo Review

By Perry Meas, Staff Writer
Have you ever wished you knew a world where everything you can imagine is bizarre and mystifying? Well, famed academy award-winning Japanese Director Hayao Miyazaki does. If you are familiar with Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s other works like Howl’s Moving Castle, or the critically-acclaimed 2001-hit, Spirited Away, then you should be [...]

Past, Present, and Future – Muse: The Resistance

By Jazmin Temores, Staff Writer
It seems like the world’s greatest scientists have been beaten to discovering how to travel through time not by extraterrestrials but by a band. With their fifth-highly anticipated album released on September 14th, “The Resistance”, Muse has created a wormhole to an alternate universe where the listener can travel through a [...]

It Did Get Loud, and Good Reviews

By Brie Roche Lilliott, staff writer
As the ten audience members settled into their seats and the lights of the theater dimmed, the film opened with a strangely dressed man, an amplifier, and an old country house. The man, Jack White, then began to construct an electric guitar- out of a 2×4 piece of wood, a [...]

District 9 Review

Thomas Panaccione, Staff Writer
A few years ago, when Peter Jackson decided he wanted to make a movie about the video game mega-franchise known as Halo, he chose Neil Blomkamp as his director. That movie was never completed, so they decided to create another one, a movie that cost about [...]

Inglorious Basterds Review

By Thomas Panaccione, Staff Writer
If you have ever seen a Quentin Tarantino movie, then you know he’s a movie buff at heart, that each of his projects tend to focus on cheesy movie genres from the 70’s and 80’s, and that he complements plots with modern visuals and strong characters. [...]