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Review: ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ is back!

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(Graphics/Dior Brown) Luke Brantley Variety Editor Returned, “The Clone Wars” has. Last Friday, the animated “Star Wars series” “The Clone Wars” returned for a final season on Disney +. The original series aired for five seasons on Cartoon Network from 2008 to 2013. A sixth season was released on Netflix, but the series never had an official ending. Until now. The new season is being released after the success of “The Mandalorian,” the first ever live action “Star Wars” series, which was also released on Disney’s streaming service. Unlike “The…

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Review: ‘Joker’ is nothing to laugh at

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(PHOTO/ AntMan3001 photo via Flickr) Joaquin Phoenix’s version of the titular villian is raw, real, and unsettling to the core.  Luke Brantley Variety Editor “Joker” is no joke.  This dark origin story is directed by Todd Phillips, and stars Joaquin Phoenix as the infamous Joker. Despite the name that the character and the movie share, the story isn’t funny. It’s dark, it’s disturbing and it’s sad.  This is a review, so here’s an official SPOILER ALERT. The story follows Arthur Fleck, a struggling, aspiring stand-up comedian who suffers from severe…

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Review: ‘Scary Stories’ doesn’t have the same impact on adults as children

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Sarah Mountain Staff Writer “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” incited a lot of feelings in me in the fourth grade – adrenaline, excitement, intrigue, a little fear and a little rebellion.  This was not the type of story I would normally go for, nor one that my parents would have liked for me to read.   However, everyone else was reading it, which was enough for me to put my name on the waitlist to check it out from the library.  I read the whole thing in one…

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‘Mamma Mia!’ offers a welcomed relief from finals blues with high energy, fun show

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Review Pradyot Sharma  Section Editor In the hectic weeks leading to the summer, the Department of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of “Mamma Mia!” was a welcomed relief to many.  Built around the music of ABBA, the show follows the life of Donna Sheridan and her soon-to-be-wed daughter Sophie, who in the quest to find her father, invites three of her mother’s former lovers to the wedding.  What follows is a well-orchestrated comical and rhythmical storytelling. Troy’s rendition of the play was unique, as the cast members were comprised of current…

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Review: ‘Captain Marvel’ is good, but not worth the ‘cultural battle’

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Sam Stroud Staff Writer Ever since the “Captain Marvel” movie was announced and Marvel Studios began to indicate that this character would become the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been a of cultural battle between two opposing camps of Marvel fans.   The first group are people want this movie to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. The second group wants it to sink faster than the Titanic — the ship, not the film.  Some see “Captain Marvel” as a cultural landmark for women and female…

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