Review: The Night He Broke Box Office Records: Halloween (2018)
By Alex Romano, Associate Editor Now there is a title that someone should lose their job over. It makes the movie seem unsure as to what it is. Is it not a sequel? It is definitely not a remake; that would be so mid-2000s. It is a reboot, but it does not start from scratch and drag the audience through the events of the 1978 film again. It is not a mere spiritual successor; more than just the essence of the original is reproduced...
Review: A Howl of a Story, The Wolf-Man (1941)
By Alex Romano, Associate Editor So, truth be told, I do not enjoy this movie nearly as much as the title of this review might indicate. Among horror films that I like, this early rendition of the man-versus-beast struggle ranks rather lowly for me. Among the Universal Classic Monsters Series’ franchise openers, this film ranks last. This has been the case for me since I first viewed it as a tyke. Though the hair, makeup, and costume...
Review: The Beginning of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2006), A Bad Apple
By Alex Romano, Associate Editor I have a history with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel. Like many other horror movies spanning from 2003, the year the first Chainsaw remake came out, to the early 2010s, when a casting director made the inexplicable decision to cast Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a suitable replacement for Kurt Russell in 2011’s The Thing, The Beginning was an entry in a series of nostalgic reboots of beloved horror...
Opinion: Seeing the Other Side of the John Dean Retort
By Alex Romano, Associate Editor At the end of summer break, there arose a new kerfuffle in the news, courtesy of- surprise, surprise – Donald Trump’s legal team. The president posted a tweet, this time coming from the boss himself in response to a New York Times article reporting how White House Counsel Don McGahn testified for hours in front of the Special Counsel: Trump called McGahn a “John Dean type RAT,” prompting the...
Get to Work, Write Away
By Alex Romano, Opinions Editor I do not enjoy this, in case you were wondering. I do not enjoy this at all. This section of the newspaper is meant to be filled by all of you: the students, organizations, and administrators of our fine institution. The Opinions Section is supposed to be a page that showcases the school’s diversity of thought and passion for intellectual growth and discussion. When I assumed the...
