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Review: “Cocaine Bear,” the most intriguing title you’ll find in 2023 [MUSE]

Review: “Cocaine Bear,” the most intriguing title you’ll find in 2023 [MUSE]

Ryan Zhang April 2, 2023

“Cocaine Bear.” It’s a title that made me think twice and then I came across the line, “Based on true events” and it truly drew my attention. In fact this event did happen to some extent. In...

Club Spotlight: Horror Club

Club Spotlight: Horror Club

Ryan Zhang March 21, 2023

Amanda McDonald, Horror Club leader and junior  Why was the club created? It was created near the beginning of second semester, which was my goal. Unfortunately because I couldn't really advertise...

With International Women’s Day on March 8, take a look at some movies that don’t pass the Bechdel test, learn about other diversity-based media tests [MUSE]

Maddie Misterka March 7, 2023

Media Tests: Bechdel Test: The Bechdel test is the most famous diversity test for media with three criteria. One, there are at least two named female characters, two, they speak to one another, and...

Why books are preferable to movies in light of new book-to-movie adaptation “A Man Called Otto”

Why books are preferable to movies in light of new book-to-movie adaptation “A Man Called Otto”

Nora Mariano February 6, 2023

The line between books and movies has become blurred as many popular books earn their own movie adaptations. The most successful recent examples are the Harry Potter series, Hunger Games and Jurassic Park.  Recently,...

Review: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is the perfect model for Chinese-American representation [MUSE]

Review: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is the perfect model for Chinese-American representation [MUSE]

Chenyao Liu January 21, 2023

My Mandarin is very bad. The flow of every sentence is broken up by the occasional English word, culminating in what I have termed “Chinglish.”  Chinglish is the way I naturally communicate with...

Review: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days villainizes femininity [MUSE]

Review: “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” villainizes femininity [MUSE]

Arya Pinnamaneni January 6, 2023

With the growing popularity of the TikTok sound from “How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days," ("and all the girls dreamed that they'd be Ben’s partner, they'd be partner"), I went back to rewatch the romantic...

Review: The battle of the Pinocchios [MUSE]

Review: The battle of the Pinocchios [MUSE]

Chenyao Liu December 28, 2022

2022 has seen the release of three “Pinocchio” movies and, to be honest, only one of them is worth watching.  Starting with the worst, Disney+ released their live-action “Pinocchio” on Sept....

Superhero movies need more female roles, directors for representation

Superhero movies need more female roles, directors for representation

Nora Mariano November 17, 2022

Marvel has released a steady slew of new superhero movies and TV shows over the past few years. But unlike some other titles, the newly released “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever '' features a cast of...

Representation in film must go beyond actors, extend to writers, directors

Representation in film must go beyond actors, extend to writers, directors

Chenyao Liu November 10, 2022

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will be released on Nov 11. The first “Black Panther” movie shattered box office records, becoming the highest-grossing film ever by a Black director, Ryan Coogler....

Lights, Camera, Action!

Lights, Camera, Action!

Elise Varhan December 13, 2021

Check out National Short Film Day facts, relation to CHS Dec JAM    

With Halloween approaching, film students reexamine gender roles in horror, psychological thriller movies

Jillian Moore and Arya Pinnamaneni October 19, 2021

In the 1996 horror movie “Scream,” director Wes Craven references the common horror film tradition of killing off the majority of characters when he scripts Tatum, played by Rose McGowan, as saying,...

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