BY THOMAS WOOD Just last week as of writing this, Nintendo did the unthinkable. In collaboration with Illumination, the studio behind Despicable Me, Nintendo actually released a fully animated Super Mario movie. In the wake of the Italian’s recent success, ranging from his usual video games to more […]
BY ROSA PRESTON I’ve tried to write two other stories, each of which aren’t doing so great. Mostly because: Both of which are issues writers at Truman High School commonly face (but having a cold while writing also doesn’t help). So, here’s some advice from an exhausted teenager […]
BY ADAM PRESTON It feels as though nowadays that extremes make up the majority of political life. Whether it comes from the far-right or the far-left, extremism has undoubtedly taken center stage for American politics; a familiar feeling since the rioting, looting, and political violence that took place […]
BY THOMAS WOOD Near the end of the 1980s, Disney began a resurgence in its animated movies. The movies released in this era, 1989 to 1998, are considered by many to be the best work Disney has made in its lifetime. The thing that spurred this renaissance was […]
BY ROSA PRESTON I’m going to go ahead and say it, no one’s perfect. Not students. And not teachers.We can always strive to improve ourselves, but no one can be perfect. But even knowing that, there are certain things a teacher should never say to or about their […]
BY KRISHAE FRANCO I think almost everyone has heard of the classic story “Pride and Prejudice”. The popular, well-known story has been adapted into not one, but at least seventeen different movies since 1938. I recently wrote about books and their movie adaptations, and the struggles that come […]
BY THOMAS WOOD In 2008, DreamWorks animation created a film by the name of Kung Fu Panda. It was met with a resounding box office success, having blown its budget out of the water with profits. Wanting to capitalize on this success, DreamWorks began work on a sequel […]
BY THOMAS WOOD In the later months of 1999, Disney produced a Disney Channel original film by the name of Horse Sense. It was received with complicated reviews, many viewers merely thinking it was a decent movie. Disney “capitalized” on this reception by making a sequel two years […]
BY ROSA PRESTON As I’m writing this, I’m going back and forth between this story and playing Sudoku. Yep, I’m playing Sudoku and working at the same time. That’s mainly because most other games are blocked. Even typing in the word “games” sends you to your favorite unblocked […]
BY BAY COLT Exhausting, vapid and tactlessly inane, New York Times bestseller Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn proves to be yet another soulless and derivative YA (Young Adult) novel that disrespects the craft of dystopian fiction with a fundamental disconnect from the roots of the genre, just one […]
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