The Bounty Hunter Delivers
April 14, 2010 • Shelby Ross
Filed under A&E, Opinion
Gerard Butler? Um, hot Scottish actor? I’d watch any movie with him in it. From The Phantom of the Opera to The Ugly Truth. And Jennifer Aniston? She is sassy and sexy and determined in all her movies. What a genius idea to put these two hot people together in a movie. The Bounty Hunter is an action-romantic... Read more »
Dragons Rock
April 14, 2010 • Branden Robinson
Filed under A&E, Opinion
How to Train Your Dragon is a classic story of a coming of age boy vying for the acceptance of his peers and father; Hiccup is a teenager growing up in a colony of Vikings, but unlike all of the other teens in this colony, Hiccup is skinny, weak, and amazingly clumsy. The Vikings see him as a burden... Read more »
Field Hockey Fever
April 8, 2010 • Monica Mathieu
Filed under Opinion, Sports
WFISD is home to award-winning bands, stellar soccer teams and a plethora of UIL teams. It is a thriving environment for the academically strong as well as one for traditional sports such as soccer, volleyball and football. However, to put itself over the top and prove to the state that WFISD is truly... Read more »
New “Alice in Wonderland” film is audience pleaser
April 5, 2010 • Sean Underwood
Filed under A&E, Opinion
Disney has for a second time re-done Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” but rather than paying attention to the book’s whimsical attributes like the studio’s original film in the 50’s, the Disney team let Tim Burton bring out the book’s... Read more »
The Road Shows Human Strength
February 12, 2010 • Sean Underwood
Filed under A&E, Opinion
Finally, after many attempts, Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road has been made into an independent feature film. This action thriller will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very last scene. With a constant moving story line and realistic visuals, the film keeps the crowd’s attention... Read more »
Daybreakers Delivers Real Vampire Story
January 20, 2010 • Branden Robinson
Filed under A&E, Opinion
Daybreakers. Yes, yet another vampire movie. With the rampant vampire craze, Hollywood decided to fuel the fire by going back to traditional vampire mythology. These vampires do not sparkle, cannot sustain continuously on animal blood, and they burn to cinders in the sun. Instead of focusing on the... Read more »
2012 Deserves an Award: Worst Movie Ever.
January 11, 2010 • Byron Dowling
Filed under A&E, Opinion
Although there are many other movies that I could rant on that deserve no place within the Oscar’s list, there is one that failed to escape the clutches of this review. The most undeserving movie of the year would absolutely have to be “2012”. While watching the catastrophe of a film I couldn’t... Read more »
Editor’s Playoff Predictions for NFL Wild Card Week
January 8, 2010 • Michael Johnson
Filed under Opinion, Sports, Top Stories
Here we are. 12 teams remain. Eight play this week. I’ll tell who will win and why, and my “clutch” player predictions for each game. AFC New York Jets @ Cincinnati Bengals First of all the Jets shouldn’t even be in the playoffs. Their last two games were against teams who already had a clinched... Read more »
Tiger Woods Overshadows Real News
December 14, 2009
Filed under Opinion
The primary news story is about a famous athlete’s moral mistakes. Not the biggest problem, but apparently interesting enough to make it as the top story. At the same time Tiger’s infidelity was the talk to news stations everywhere, four bombs simultaneously exploded in Iraq, killed 100’s... Read more »
The Blind Side
December 14, 2009
Filed under Opinion
Based on a true story, The Blind Side is this year’s best inspirational movie, telling the heart-wrenching story of Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a teenage boy struggling to survive on the streets after being forcefully removed from his home and bounced around from foster home to foster home. When... Read more »
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