Directed by Reginald Hudlin Based on true events, Marshall, directed by Reginald Hudlin and released in 2017, follows one of the most high-profile cases the young but diligent Thurgood Marshall faces in his career as a lawyer for the NAACP. The firm advocates for innocent Black people across America. The case is the alleged rape…
Movie Review: Pacific Rim
Directed by Guillermo del Toro 2013’s Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro, is set in an age where colossal dinosaur-like creatures that bleed a radioactivity neon blue occasionally ascend, one after the other, from a crack in the pacific ocean and wreak havoc on major cities across the globe. To combat these monstrosities, the…
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
Directed by Peter Jackson 4 Stars In 2009’s The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, 14-year-old Susie Salmon narrates the story of her murder. For most of the movie, Susie resides in an identical but desolate dimension between reality and the heaven explicitly built for her killer’s victims. Here, she struggles to come to terms…
Book Review: On Looking
by Alexandra Horowitz 5 Stars A wonderful book that makes the world come alive, this non-fiction piece by Alexandra Horowitz follows her adventure in learning about the often ignored parts of the city she walks through every day. In each chapter, she enlists a different expert on a subject to walk with her around the…
Movie Review: Avatar
Directed by James Cameron 5 Stars The wonderful movie Avatar is a science fiction/action movie that takes place in a world far away from Earth called Pandora in the year of 2154. Jake Sully, who is a fictional character in the movie Avatar, is a paralyzed Marine veteran. Even though he might be injured, he…
Book Review: It Happened One Summer
by Tessa Bailey 5 Stars Wow. So it was not what I expected from this book. Based on the title, I expected a cute little romance book, but boy, it was so much more! This was my first Tessa Bailey book, and now I want to buy them all. I never expected to give this…
Book Review: The Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren 5 Stars The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren has to be one of my absolute favourite books I've read this far. Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating shellfish…
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