Film & Television
Any articles related to film and television should fall in this category. This category will most likely be filled with reviews and/or commentary on films and/or television series.
Damn ladies, back at it again
Whether life imitates art or art imitates life, the introspective questions of the past don’t always matter. Especially not when art looks so fashionable. Films, in particular, have a habit of influencing a wide realm of people and cultivating ideas regarding romance, friendship and, of course, fashion. “Clueless” (1995) Dionne:[Read More…]
Review: ‘Carol’ is music to the ears
Directed by Todd Haynes, “Carol” tells the “love-at-first-sight” story of two women, socialite Carol Aird (portrayed by Cate Blanchett) and part-time department store worker Therese Belivet (portrayed by Rooney Mara). The narrative follows them into their quiet, elusive world of hidden romances during the 1950s. Adapted from “The Price of[Read More…]
A look back at 2015’s best films
Mad Max: Fury Road Micayla Vermereen, Opinions Editor Let’s, for a second, consider a world in which women are tradeable commodities, stockpiled by power-hungry male overlords to expand the family line and told to breed until their backs break. Let’s consider a world in which women are named for their[Read More…]
SPOILERS: 49ers strike back on ‘The Force Awakens’
The nostalgia was strong in this one. J.J. Abrams’ “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” broke the summer blockbuster “Jurassic World”’s opening weekend box-office record to become the highest grossing opening of all-time – and rightfully so. Is BB-8 cuter than a bunch of baby chicks? Greg Diaz: Is there anybody[Read More…]
CSULB alumni’s film ‘Star Trek Wars’ hyperdrives onto the silver screen
Captain’s Log: A year ago, in a college not too far away, director and California State Long Beach film alumni Joshua Hoh set out the create the next big fan film after his award-winning “Steven Spielberg and the Return to Film School.” His new film, “Star Trek Wars,” follows the[Read More…]
Review: ‘Spotlight’
Tenacity. Patience. Bravery. Such are the characteristics of the investigative reporter as eloquently portrayed in Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,” a fast-paced, voyeuristic perspective of what it was like to be a reporter in 2001 at the Boston Globe before and during the world-rocking, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into Catholic priests sexually abusing[Read More…]
Ash and his boomstick are back to save the fall
It has been 23 years since Ash Williams last took on the evil hoard of Deadites in “Army of Darkness”; twenty-three long years without Ash’s boomstick, his evil twin, his one-liners or his “hand that went bad” that got replaced with a chainsaw. Except none of that is true. Because[Read More…]
Spying into the mind of Steven Spielberg
Like many of us speed-walking up a sweat, a young, shaggy-haired Steven Spielberg found himself victim to parking woes, 10 minutes too late during his first go-around pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at California State University, Long Beach. “I remember I was late for my very first class on[Read More…]
‘The Martian’ is out of this world
Every young child’s dream of exploring another planet quickly turns into a nightmare of unfathomable despair as a man is left behind alone on the harsh landscape of Mars. Houston, we have a problem. In a testament to human ingenuity, “The Martian,” based on the novel by Andy Weir, pulls[Read More…]