George Ibarra/Staff Writer For anyone who watched the horribly unfunny trailers for Brian Henson’s “The Happytime Murders,” it’s no surprise the “comedy” film is a vacuum that sucks all emotion from its audience. “The Happytime Murders” follows hokey buddy-cop mystery clichés, feels half-written and has no jokes beyond a juvenile level. In a world where […]
Gabriella Pinos/Staff Writer As if Disney wasn’t powerful enough, they now have an even stronger hold on American entertainment. On July 27th, the company purchased the majority of 21st Century Fox’s assets for $71.3 billion, according to a statement by Fox executive chairman Rupert Murdoch. Along with film franchises such as “X-Men,” “Avatar,” and the […]
Erik Jimenez/Staff Writer If I were to choose a mascot for the Walt Disney Corporation, I would easily pick Winnie-The-Pooh. As the face of many of the company’s projects and programs, the famous bear, along with his crew, come back to the big screen for a wonderful tale of imagination and reflection. All of them […]
Erik Jimenez/Staff Writer I think it’s safe to say the original Jurassic Park is one of the greatest blockbusters of all time, and revolutionized the movie scene when it came out 25 years ago thanks to it’s astounding visual effects, iconic score and landmark directing from director Steven Spielberg. Throughout its multiple sequels, many […]
George Ibarra/Contributing Writer Rarely do audiences get to experience a film that’s escaped from development hell. Unfortunately, despite over a decade of waiting on Brian Henson’s dark comedy spin on a murder-mystery set in a puppet filled world, the new trailer for “The Happytime Murders” doesn’t sell a great image for a movie with […]
Erik Jimenez / Staff Writer “Deadpool 2” is a gory and gleeful send up of the superhero genre that spawned it, and if you’re still feeling depressed after the end of “Avengers: Infinity War,” this flick is the cure. Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and director Tim Miller were set to return for the […]
Caroline Lozano/ Assistant Opinion Director As a once avid anime viewer, I always found it disappointing that live-action anime adaptations haven’t fared well anywhere, especially when compared to live-action comic book adaptations, like those belonging to Marvel. In fact, anime (and of course, its manga counterpart) and comic books have similar qualities that have made […]
By Jose Gil “Love, Simon” is the first studio teen film whose focus is on a gay lead character, and, in a world that is aiming for representation, it’s a good first step. The film isn’t perfect. It’s filled with cliches, an uneven attention to plot points and some meh performances, but its message of […]
By Erik Jimenez I have never read Madeleine L’Engle seminal 1961 children’s novel, “A Wrinkle in Time”. It was apparently required reading many a K-8 students in the United States educational system, but for whatever reason, I was never forced to read it. So, I went into Disney’s adaptation of this (from what I’ve heard) […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer When people mention spring break most people think of constant partying for a whole week, but that is not everyone’s experience. Whether it be high school, love or spring break, mainstream media often overemphasizes reality causing people to mistake fiction for reality. I was 14-years-old when the movie “Spring Breakers” came […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer Marvel’s roaring success “Black Panther” is worth talking about for it’s all-black cast (ignoring the only two white characters, played by “The Hobbit” alums Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis) and embracement of an Afro-futuristic setting. But what makes it shine above the other seventeen movies that make up the Marvel Cinematic […]
By Erik Jimenez Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are freed from “Fifty Shades of Grey” at last. For years, audiences with decent taste have been subjected to both in novel and film form to a trilogy of “romance” novels so bad, they could have been “Twilight” fanfiction. Actually, it was. E.L. […]
