An “Elite” high school mystery show
Ryan Yoo, Director of Design
February 1, 2019
Netflix released “Elite” on Oct. 5. The show follows three working class friends, Samuel (Itzan Escamilla), Nadia (Mina El Hammani) and Christian (Miguel Herran), who are given scholarships to attend Las Encinas, after a mysterious accident that destroyed their old school. The school, Las Encinas, is ...
Unfortunately ending
Yvonne Pan, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 1, 2019
No one was more excited than I was when the third season of the Netflix adaptation of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” came out on Jan. 1 this year. Anyone who knows me knows “A Series of Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket, pen name of Daniel Handler, is my favorite book series. I devoure...
Phillip Wang discusses “Yappie” after CWRU showing of limited series
Yvonne Pan, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 1, 2019
“You know if you meet an Asian guy, there’s a one in 13 chance his name is Andrew. There’s a one in five chance he’s an engineer.” This quote is one of the first things you’ll hear when you watch “Yappie” and is a good example of what’s to come. “Yappie” follows the life o...
Don’t hug me, I’m Trump
Ryan Yoo, Director of Design
January 25, 2019
Your favorite surreal horror comedy series is back for a second season. On Sep. 13, Blink Industries released a 30-second trailer for the new season of “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared,” titled “Wakey Wakey.” The psychedelic horror-comedy series first gained popularity in 2011 through its sh...
The subversive, effective conclusion to the Glass trilogy
Lars Torres, Staff Reporter
January 25, 2019
Nineteen years ago, M. Night Shyamalan directed a radical film known as “Unbreakable,” a film that looked to be a conventional mystery and psychological thriller but was in fact a slow-burning and grounded take on the superhero genre. The film revolves around a security guard, David Dunn (Bruce Wi...
Film Society prepares for 44th marathon
Yvonne Pan, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2019
The first week of spring semester, also known as “syllabus week”, is full of exciting activities from sorority and fraternity recruitment to new classes. Another beginning of spring semester staple is the CWRU Film Society’s annual science fiction marathon, which will begin at 8 p.m. on Jan. 18...
“On the Basis of Sex” portrays Supreme Court justice’s early career
Ryan Yoo, Director of Design
January 18, 2019
“On the Basis of Sex” is a biographical film that follows the early career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The film, directed by Mimi Leder, features Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Armie Hammer as Ginsburg’s husband, Martin D. Ginsburg and Kathy Bates as civil rights attorney ...
Discovery warps into season two
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2019
This week, Star Trek returns to the silver screen as its newest starship, the U.S.S. Discovery, returns for season two of the logically named “Star Trek: Discovery.” The Discovery, co-opted from its purpose as a scientific vessel to fight the a war waged between the United Federation of Planets an...
Latest J.K. Rowling movie entertaining but cluttered
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
November 30, 2018
After establishing a new set of characters within the fictional world of Harry Potter in 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Warner Bros. returned to the universe earlier this month with “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” Like its predecessor, “The Crimes of Grindelwald”...
“Dirty John” presents disturbing, but poorly acted thrills
Sophia Yakumithis, News Editor
November 30, 2018
Normally, I’m not a fan of true crime. I have this weird anxiety that if I learn about horrific events that actually happened in real life that they will somehow become real and happen to me. “Dirty John” is an exception. Last weekend, my mother—the same woman who got me hooked on “The Real H...
