By LAUREN LEE Staff Writer With the new decade rolling and award season coming about, it’s a good time to look at the movies coming out this year. The foundation of the film industry has drastically changed and moviegoers are highly anticipating big films coming out. From small low budget movies to huge franchise movies, movie...
By JUDE SALAM Staff Writer The 2020 GRAMMYs Award show was hosted by singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and featured a collection of stunning performances from the music industry’s greatest artists of the year. The show was cast with a somber presence in light of the tragic death of retired basketball player Kobe Bryant that happened the morning...
By MAX SCHMIDT Contributing Writer BoJack Horseman was the first animated series Netflix produced, and has become one of the most critically acclaimed animated shows, nay, television shows ever made. The show takes place in a world where animal people exist alongside regular people. Our protagonist, BoJack Horseman, a horse, was “in a very famous TV...
By ADITYA TYAGI Staff Writer Have you ever seen one of those videos detailing the process behind making a McNugget from McDonalds? For a moment, you think, “Wow, that’s absolutely disgusting!”. Then, you take another bite. Much like your chicken nuggets, video games often have atrocious paths to their completion, yet we digest them without knowing....
By DAVID MIN Staff Writer On January 31st, the Youth Action Team held its fourteenth annual Akustikoff, which is an event where student performers and groups from across Irvine Unified School District compete against one another for the chance to play at a summer music festival. Hosted at the Heritage Park Events Center, the sets included...
By JAX ARMSTRONG Staff Writer University Town Center’s newest dessert restaurant Insomnia Cookies has recently been included in the conversation of “best places to go” at University Town Center. Insomnia Cookies is known for their ice cream-brownie hybrid, which is pretty much a brownie sandwich with an ice cream center. However, to no surprise, the...
By NIMA MOVAHEDI Staff Writer Unveiled at Blizzcon 2014 and later retailed in 2016, Overwatch has been accepted as a game of the decade. Becoming the highest-grossing paid game for personal computers in 2016 and having around 50 million players, Overwatch has been very successful throughout its life as a 6 person team based first person...
By ALYSSA TANG Contributing Writer Two new specialty ice cream shops, Cauldron and Saffron & Rose opened in Irvine in 2019. Cauldron Ice Cream, featuring handcrafted ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, opened its first store in South Coast Metro in 2014. They recently opened their newest location in the Cypress Shopping Center in Irvine...
JOSHUA NGUYEN Staff Writer A sequel to Angry Birds the Movie, with characters based on the famous mobile game Angry Birds, the movie Angry Birds 2 was released August 13, 2019.The movie’s budget was $65 million as of September 15, it has grossed $118.6 million. It also has received a 72% on Rotten Tomatoes which...
DANIEL HONG Staff Writer Downton Abbey is a historical period drama directed by Michael Engler, starring Maggie Smith in its massive cast of returning characters and newcomers. This feature film is a sequel to the British drama series, Downton Abbey, which had received much acclaim from its fans and critics. Set in 1927, approximately one...