How movies instill stereotypical ideas in the younger generations
January 8, 2020
Peter Pan. Dumbo. Snow White. Tom and Jerry. We’ve grown up watching these films — cheering on as Peter Pan and his cohort of Lost Boys battled Captain Hook, and sighing in defeat when Snow White bit into the poison apple. These movies and TV shows have accompanied us throughout our childhood, in...
‘Abominable’ Review: The importance of Asian representation
October 9, 2019
The cultural significance of ‘Abominable’ and what it means for Asian Americans
Kickstarting the year: MV Cinema Club hosts first meeting
September 16, 2019
Club hosts different Kahoot games testing movie trivia and distributes free donuts
Life isn’t picture perfect, movies prove it
May 4, 2019
Seeing myself in the films I’ve watched through high school
Marvel vs. DC Comics
April 10, 2019
ajor Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was in need of cash. It was 1937, and he was writing for pulp magazines, another name for inexpensive fiction magazines. Partnering with magazine distributors Harry Donenfeld and Jack Liebowitz to get money, he founded Detective Comics, which, after a series of mergers and changes in own...
The Class of 2021 prepares for its first-ever bonding activity
March 18, 2019
Despite an unsuccessful campaign last school year, the class of 2021 has set the date for their first‐ever bonding activity: a relaxing movie night to be held after school on Friday, March 29. After months of consideration and negotiation, the officers are optimistic that the event will be successf...
Music in film: MV Cinema Club discusses movie composers
Rana Aghababazadeh and Ruth Feng
March 13, 2019
“xcuse me, cupcake coming through.” Arbitrary phrases such as this may be heard during the MV Cinema Club’s meeting, along with competitive yelling about which composer curated the music for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” Vice President and sophomore Arjan Madan revealed that throughout March,...
To be a kid again: Students share opinion on upcoming Disney-Pixar sequel, “The Incredibles 2”
December 12, 2017
hirteen years. That’s how long it has been since the first “Incredibles” movie was released in theaters. And over a decade later, the teaser for its sequel, “The Incredibles 2,” is now attracting the attention of teenagers who had fallen in love with the film during their elementary school y...
A Film Lover: Razi Mahmood
Karen Sanchez
December 12, 2017
or senior Razi Mahmood, film is the best kind of art. There’s a sense of joy, a small satisfaction and excitement, when the theater slowly grows darker before a movie. The same can be felt when lying on the couch, warm, watching Netflix. The screen enters full screen mode and your eyes lay upon ...
The roots of this year’s biggest summer reboots
August 20, 2017
This summer’s most exciting movie releases, from “Baby Driver” to “Dunkirk”, brought many MVHS students back to the movie theater. But this summer was also home to many franchise reboots — new movies that reinvented the way people viewed old stories. Rebooting a movie franchise can also...
