By Faith Orcino Arts and Entertainment Editor   Many flocked to the venues hosting this year’s San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) from Nov. 6 to 15. For 10 days, people viewed the fruits of the labor of many filmmakers from various locations, including a number of local talents. With...

By Lexy Perez Arts and Entertainment Assistant Rating: 2.5/5 Paws The time has come for movie-goers to be introduced to yet another love story. It is a new addition to the Nicholas Sparks collection, a.k.a: the sappy, tearjerker, Hollywood hunk-filled, ‘why can’t this be my real life’ type...

By Zach Schanzenbach Senior Staff Writer Rating: 4/5 Paws   Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 were decent, but Captain America: The Winter Soldier is just what you’d hope for from a Marvel Studios film, and maybe even then some. This latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes some...

By Alex Maravillas Staff Writer Different lights uncover the bohemian kineticism that thrived amid the 1940s and 1950s in New York City. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the American biographical-drama Kill Your Darlings, written by Austin Bunn and directed by John Krokidas in his feature...

By Sonni Simmons Staff Writer The movie theater experience isn’t cheap. You pay for the movie, the popcorn and the Swedish Fish with money and the experience with your time. It seems as though most movies nowadays are pumped down an assembly line and adorned with big name actors to get some...

By Lexy Perez Arts and Entertainment Assistant If "Project X," “The Hangover” and "Spring Breakers" had a crossover movie, it is guaranteed that "Neighbors" would be their comprised product. Seth Rogan and Zac Efron star in this generation's "Animal House," embodying the young, wild and free...

By Pierce Brenner Staff Writer The Drop is one of the smaller films I’ve been looking forward to for quite a while now. It’s a crime drama starring Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Locke) and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) with a screenplay written by author Dennis Lehane (Mystic...

The Giver: Giving life new meaning By: Lexy Perez Assistant to Arts and Entertainment Editor If it hasn’t been conspicuous enough, today’s cinema world revolves around the generation of young readers. While “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” proved to be box-office successes,...

Most recent Christian film struggles to make its mark, unless you’re a Christian. By Zach Schanzenbach Staff Writer Feature-length Christian films have a reputation when it comes to the big screen. I would say it isn’t positive, but then I’d be dishonest. The reality is that Christian...

By Lexy Perez Staff Writer A teen heroine living in a dystopian society realizes a need for their corrupt government to be taken down. Throw in some action sequences, impressive visual effects, young up and coming actors/actresses, a love story and a best-selling novel as inspiration and you have...