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Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

"Hostiles," with its star-studded cast, breathes new life into the Western genre.

Out with the Old West, into the new

Harrison Bloom, Staff Reporter February 16, 2018

Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles” is a Western film which had its limited release last December and was released worldwide on Jan. 26. It tells the story of Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), an American...

"Ex Machina" revisits the Turing Test to explore the differences between  human and robot.

The sci-fi sleeper hit of this summer

Winston Eng, Staff Reporter May 2, 2015

It’s not often that I see science fiction represented well on film. Often, the need to exemplify advanced technological achievements or extraterrestrial invaders overshadow the philosophical thoughts...

“Get Hard:” Offensive, but funny

Roy Chan, Staff Reporter March 27, 2015

Offensive? Definitely. Homophobic and racist? Check. Prison rape? Mentioned every 30 seconds. But is the movie hilarious? Oh, yes it is, very much so. “Get Hard” will not garner stellar critical...

All-star cast can’t save confusing plot

Winston Eng, Staff Reporter October 18, 2014

What could have been a tightly-worded, effective tool to demonstrate the social crisis overtly embedded in modern society, is no more than a confusing and honestly frustrating 119 minutes of stories which...

Embrace the well-written female in cinema

Winston Eng, Staff Reporter October 9, 2014

There is absolutely no reason why we should be rooting for strong female characters in our cinema today. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that those who identify as female should not be written...

Dash toward the movies for “The Maze Runner”

Sanjana Singh, Contributing Reporter September 25, 2014

After the continuous success of movies based on Young Adult novels, such as “Divergent” and “Hunger Games,” it was unsurprising to have another dystopian, post-apocalyptic trilogy come to the big...

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