Month: February 2014

The Best of Sundance Film Festival 2014: Whiplash Scores Top Honors BY CHRISTYNA PHILLIPS ____________________________________________________ The Sundance Film Festival is best known as the land of Filmmakers & Celebrities, Mountain Chic Fashion and Glamorous Festivities. The festival is a calling card for those hoping to break into the film world. Social Entrepreneurs flocked to Park City, Utah where 119 feature films were chosen from 4,057 submissions which included tons of short films. This year, Whiplash completely dominated and took home both the "Grand Jury Prize" and "Audience Award for Dramatic Feature." Damien Chazelle's debut feature, about a tense relationship between a teacher and student at a New York music school, scored big at this year's fest. J.K. Simmons stars as...

Frozen: A Movie Review BY KIMBERLY BENNETT _________________________________________ In Ancient Greek, there are four different words to describe feelings of love: agape, eros, philia and storge. Most spiritual books and films, such as Facing the Giants, Courageous and Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly series, focus on agape love, where God’s love is unconditional and selfless towards all humankind. Many romantic works, like the Harlequin books, E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey and James Cameron’s Titanic, center on eros—where the attraction between two lovers is mostly physical or sexual. Sherlock Holmes is a great example of philia—a bromantic love through friendship between its main characters, Sherlock and Watson. However, Disney’s newest movie, Frozen—directed by Chris Buck and Jen...

Beauty & the Beast ~ TV Series Review BY KIMBERLY BENNETT _________________________________________ Before Oct. 11, 2012, I had never come across a television show worth obsessing over. If you ask me, I would admit to watching anime, Boy Meets World, Cold Case, Numbers, 24, Ghost Whisperer, The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, etc., but not one of these shows can compare to the die-hard love I feel for the CW’s sophomore series, Beauty & the Beast. CW’s Beauty & the Beast (BATB) is a modern remake of Ron Koslow’s 1987 three-season series. Before I started watching the series in 2012, I had never even heard of its forerunner starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton. In fact, I thought the re-make would be more closely related to Disney’s Beauty & the Beast, but I was mist...

TV Review: How I Met Your Mother BY BRITANI BEASLEY __________________________________________ In September 2005, the voice of character Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) was introduced talking to his two kids in the year 2030 about how he met their mother. Throughout the seasons, Ted has been telling these stories towards the ultimate build-up of who exactly the mother is. Nine seasons later, on the 200th episode, we have finally discovered that the mother does, indeed, get introduced to the series, and she explains what she has been up to for the past eight years. Whether you relate to Ted, Marshall (Jason Segal), Lilly (Alyson Hannigan), Robin (Cobie Smulders) or Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), this show has left you with a ton of laughs and some tears as it entered its final season. The finale is...