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Not your usual love story

January 14, 2020 9:59am | Itzel Velazquez

A Sucky Love Story is based on a true events that happened to Youtuber Brittani Louise Taylor and how she risked almost everything for falling in love. The book starts off with Brittani trying multiple dating sites in order to meet her true love and […]

“All American” great for football lovers

November 14, 2019 11:07pm | Ashlyn Carrillo

All American, a television series also on Netflix, premiered on October 10, 2018, with a new season premiering this fall. New episodes air Mondays on the CW channel. Season 2 is not yet on Netflix, but will be in 2020. All American is all about […]

Finding a family means finding the truth

October 31, 2019 2:02pm | Sherlynn Rodriguez

After visiting family for Thanksgiving, a father, mother, and daughter take a quick stop at a gas station. While they are there, an accident occurs and they are quickly rushed to the closest hospital. Later, mother and daughter end up disappearing in the emergency room […]

Netflix movie is perfect for a teen audience

October 7, 2019 7:05pm | Angelica Garcia

Tall Girl is a Netflix film about high school teenage girl, Jodi, who is 6’1” and is constantly bullied for being the tallest girl in their school and for not being like the rest of the girls. No guy has ever paid attention to Jodi […]

New music show draws a following

March 11, 2019 1:32pm | Megan Wedhorn

The Masked Singer is a new celebrity singing competition that has quickly become one of the most popular shows on television. The show is an American spin-off of the Korean show, King of Mask Singer. The first episode of The Masked Singer “Mask On Face […]

Archie comic characters take on a new look

February 27, 2019 1:14pm | Kaline Martinez

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a dark tale, a coming-of-age story, that centers on the Archie Comics character Sabrina Spellman, portrayed by Kiernan Shipka, and also stars Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis, Chance Perdomo, Michelle Gomez, Jaz Sinclair, Tati Gabrielle, Adeline Rudolph, Richard Coyle, and […]

“Bird Box” full of suspense and action

February 24, 2019 1:00pm | April Martinez

Sandra Bullock’s Netflix thriller spawned dozens of memes and show references over the holiday, and they continue to bombard social media. Bird Box shows the world turn from normal to apocalyptic in the course of a day, with society now filled with mass suicides and […]

Body size isn’t everything

February 18, 2019 11:01am | Kyla Harmon

The Netflix movie Dumplin makes a statement about body image and appearance and how our society views us according to how we look. A teen girl, Dumplin (Danielle Macdonald), is a plus-size girl who enters a beauty pageant. She thinks her size will be a […]

“Arrow” sees villains come and go

January 27, 2019 1:01pm | Itzel Velazquez

A billionaire playboy suffers massive personal tragedy which turns him into a mask-wearing vigilante determined to protect his beloved hometown. Arrow is a tense action-adventure series that’s loosely based on a DC Comics story about a castaway survivor who returns to his hometown to […]

Netflix series heartwarming and sweet

November 16, 2018 8:16pm | Tana Cleveland

Netflix recently added a new teen heart-melting rom-com called To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, directed by Susan Johnson. The movie is a sweet take on what many teenage girls have dreamed about: their crush to notice them. The story begins with a girl […]