It’s an age-old story: prince is turned into a frog, princess kisses frog, frog becomes man, and they live happily ever after. The new Disney version of this fairytale, an attempt to embrace political...
When one visualizes a detailed, traditional image of Queen Victoria, a peculiar portrait is often produced. The general public usually depicts the famed eighteenth century ruler with a scowling expression,...
The recently released, heavily anticipated (especially among St. Louis natives and frequenters of the Lambert-St. Louis airport) film Up In the Air, starring George Clooney, came as somewhat of a surprise...
Susan Boyle’s first album “I Dreamed a Dream†captivated me from the title track with her exquisite cover of various songs, all of which showcase her wonderful abilities as a singer....
Eleven years ago, Matthew Shepard, a homosexual man in Laramie, Wyoming, was tied to a fence and beaten to death. Shepard’s murder was a shocking revelation of hate crimes against homosexuals. This...
The year is almost over, and since January there have been a ton of great and memorable films. Some were big-budget explosion movies that were more entertaining than great, and others were smaller films...
While many CHS students haven’t been thinking very much about the holiday season so far due to increasing amounts of exams and college applications, reminders of it can be seen everywhere. After...
An evening of Charles Dickens may not sound like the most scintillating weekend activity for CHS students. The cast of "Great Expectations", however, destroyed that assumption and showed, in a set of bewitching...
Amelia Earhart defined feminism. She was a heroine of the 1930s. She inspired women to be bold.
The film, “Amelia,†certainly captures this – Amelia Earhart’s tremendous impact...
To many, it may to be hard to find the location of The Upstream Theater. It seems to be almost always disregarded since it lies right next to the Fox Theater which takes away all the attention with its...
The Coen Brothers’ newest film opens with a grotesque scene of a 19th century Yiddish couple at their home in an Eastern European Shtetl. Cold, but joyful, the bearded husband has recently returned...
A picture must be worth a thousand words. How else does one turn a 10 line children’s book into a 95 minute production inhabited by ferocious, though loveable, Wild Things? A classic children’s...
