
Movie Review: The Hunting Ground
By Kim Reynolds, Contributor [Cinedigm; 2015] Rating: 5/5 “One in five women in college is sexually assaulted.” This daunting statistic has created enough momentum to engender a nationwide conversation. The Hunting Ground is an incredible piece of introspective art helmed by Kirby Dick, who was also the writer and creator of The Invisible War. The Hunting Ground delves into the epidemic of sexual assault and rape culture on college campuses. The film dives into this issue by

Movie Review: The Visit
By Haadiza Ogwude, Contributor [Blinding Edge; 2015] Rating: 2/5 M. Night Shyamalan, writer/director of The Sixth Sense, Signs and The Happening, recently released a low budget ($5 million) thriller within the found-footage genre. The Visit is about a pair of teenage siblings on a weeklong visit at the home of grandparents they’ve never met. 15-year-old Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and her younger, wannabe-rapper brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) are eager to meet their Nana (Deanna Dun

Movie Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment
By Thalia Badio, Contributor [Sandbar; 2015] Rating: 2/5 The Stanford Prison Experiment, based on an infamous and unethical experiment performed in 1971, is a movie with great promise and hype that unfortunately, to some degree, let audiences down. The premise of the movie is both chilling and politically relevant, which inevitably is the story’s greatest accomplishment. The film is easy enough to watch, and admittedly captured most of my attention for the two hours it runs.

Movie Review: The End of the Tour
By Thalio Badio, Contributor [Modern Man Films; 2015] Rating: 4/5 Director James Ponsoldt attempts to explain in his new film, The End of the Tour, the painful decline of new-age Hemingway author David Foster Wallace in a perplexing five day adventure. Through a cryptic exchange between an emerging journalist and a clearly depressed and brilliant writer, this film skillfully shows the effects of social anxiety and paranoia on one of our generation's most gifted authors. David

Movie Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
By Eli Schoop, Contributor [Sony Pictures Classics; 2015]
Rating: 4.5/5
I've never been a teenage girl, and this is probably a lucky thing. Judging by what Minnie Goetze goes through in The Diary of a Teenage Girl, it'd be too strenuous and nerve wrecking to even consider wanting that lifestyle. After all, she has to deal with her drugged-up mother, mom's seductive yet profusely sleazy boyfriend, classmates behaving just as badly and a burdening sexuality that's nigh uncon

Movie Review: Straight Outta Compton
By Kim Reynolds, Contributor [Legendary Pictures; 2015] Rating: 4.5/5 Making $60,200,180 on its opening weekend, Straight Outta Compton has proven to be an incredibly successful and impactful film. The movie tells a story of power, love, money and the provocative art of hip hop and gangster rap. With that being said, so much of the film was incredible. The movie makes you feel like you want to get on stage with them or be in the audience at one of their shows. It was inspirin

Movie Review: Amy
By Alexa Smith, Staff Writer [On the Corner Films; 2015] Rating: 4/5 A disheartening record of a jazz musician’s rare talent and full life, up until their tragic, untimely end. Hold up. This sounds familiar, predestined, cliché even. The tale of a rebellious childhood, daddy issues caused by divorce, discovery and accelerated fame, then unwanted fame, finally the scumbag boyfriend-turned-husband who led her to a life of drugs and ultimately her death... This has all been hear

Movie Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
By Abbie Doyle, Editorial Director Rating: 3/5 Hello, George Miller, one easy question for you: Where are the persons of color in Mad Max: Fury Road? Did they go missing along with the plot of your story? Did something catastrophic happen to the two during your 45-minute desert chase scene? Alright, so there’s more than one question for the director of Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. The stylization of this movie is magnificent, rivaling the aesthe