Category: reviews
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Shameless Review
Shameless is a dramedy based on siblings who live in a dysfunctional household. Fiona, age 21, takes the role as the mother of the household as she raises her five other siblings. Their father,…
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Album review: the record -boygenius
About boygenius The indie rock trio, boygenius, dropped their first album, titled the record, on March 31, 2023. The band, consisting of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, formed in 2018. They dropped…
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What is Twitch
Twitch is a live streaming platform used for content creators to stream video games. The app has become the top streaming platform with accumulating well over 31 million daily active users. On the app,…
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Super Mario Bros Movie Review
In The Super Mario Bros Movie, Mario and Luigi live in New York City working as plumbers. Mario is determined to prove that they will be able to make it as professionals. After finding…
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Overview
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is a first person shooter game where teams of five compete in game modes such as rescuing a hostage, defusing the bombs, or securing an assigned area. There are…
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The rise of Jynxzi
Jynxzi is a Twitch streamer who has been the most trending streamer within the past few months. He currently has 76,629 current active subscribers as of April 18, 2023. As of April 18, 2023,…
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Rating Kendrick Lamar’s Top Five Songs
Kendrick Lamar is an old-school rapper coming from Compton, California. After releasing his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city in 2012, Lamar caught the attention of Dr.Dre and quickly became well known. Then Lamar…
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Purple Hibiscus Book Review
Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. She’s best known for her themes of politics,…
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Melanie Martinez: PORTALS Deep Dive
Melanie Martinez released her first album in 2015 Cry Baby reached 6th on Billboard during its first week and sold 41,000 units. The album consists of songs that have sexual, descriptive, and dramatic content.…
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Eat Your Young Album Review
Hozier is an Irish singer and songwriter who has been writing and creating music since he was fifteen years old. In 2013, his song “Take me to Church” put him on the music charts…
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Five Easy Hot Dogs Album Review
On January 20, 2023 Mac Demarco released his latest Album Five Easy Hot Dogs and the almost 35 minutes of instrumental tracks didn’t quite match the standards of most of his popular releases. Demarco…
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Rocket League Overview
Psyonix released Rocket League in 2015 to Xbox and Playstation consoles. According to nfhs.org, “Rocket League is a fantastical sport-based video game, developed by Psyonix (it’s “soccer with cars”). It features a competitive game…
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Book Review: Small Great Things
As a part of the Five Themes Research Project, in AP Human Geography, LRHS students are expected to pick a work of fiction or nonfiction to write an essay and create a physical presentation…
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Creed III Review
Creed III was made as a continuation of the Creed movie series. The movie was released on March 3, 2023, and has an 88% rotten tomato score since. The plot of Creed III is…
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Clash Royale Overview
Clash Royale is a mobile game known for its strategic playstyle and competitive feel. Clash Royale first released in 2016 and has nearly 600 million downloads across all mobile devices. The concept of the…
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Suicideboys Album Review
The awaited SHAMELESS $UICIDE album has been released. With the album only being out for less than a week, it took their fans by storm. “There are a couple of really good songs and…
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That 90s Show review
That 90s Show is a spin-off of the world-renowned show That 70s Show. It features the daughter of Eric and Donna Forman, Leia Forman, as well as Jay Kelso, who is the son of…
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Album Review of Beatopia
Beabadoobea is a rising Filipino-British artist. She’s written several well-received albums and extended plays. Beabadoobea is a hard-to-pronounce name, so I will be referring to her as Bea, the name she prefers to go…
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The Reality of Ginny & Georgia
This season picked up with the strained Miller family as Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her younger brother Austin (Diesel La Torraca) riding a motorcycle out of Wellsbury, where they live, in an effort to…
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Taking the PISA Test
Have you ever seen those little graphs on the news that compares the United States’ education to other countries’ education? Well, that’s what the PISA test is for: it’s to gauge how well the…
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Album Review: Midnights
Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album, Midnights, came out at midnight today, October 21. The 13-track and 44-minute album received a 100/100 score from The Independent the day before its release, so I have…
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Pep Rally 2022
Leesville Road High School held its first pep rally since my freshman year. As a 14-year-old, fresh out of middle school, the homecoming week’s hype was unmatched. Between the pep rally, spirit week, the…
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The Simpsons: My Octopus and a Teacher
After the death of Marcia Wallace on October 25, 2013, The Simpsons retired her character of Edna Krabappel. She played a cynical, chain smoking fourth grade teacher from America’s longest running comedy. Bart Simpson…
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Jack Johnson: From Here to Now To You
Jack Johnson is an artist that you’ve heard whether you know it or not. Most people now know him as the writer of the “Curious George song.” A song that will turn the most…
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Review
Marvel Cinematic Universe released its 52nd film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, on May 6, 2022. Marvel Studios introduced Doctor Strange into the MCU in 2016, and his presence in Avengers: Infinity…
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What is Worldle?
Instead of guessing the word of the day, Worldle challenges the player to guess the country of the day. The game launched on January 30th 2022 by a French game developer. Two weeks later,…
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Review: A Must See
If you haven’t seen Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (EEAAO), you should, and soon. Everything, Everywhere arrived in studios to little fanfare on March 30. It didn’t get a ton of marketing, which makes…
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SpyxFamily Review
With shows like Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer, all having new seasons this year and new shows like Love of Kill, Aharen San Wa Hakarenai, and My Dress-Up Darling, coming out,…
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Disney+ has found its Percy Jackson
The wildly popular book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is returning with a new TV series adapted by Disney+. After a disappointing movie series produced by 20th Century Fox in 2010, the former…
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JJK 0 Movie Review
What is JJK? (Release dates etc.) Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) is a phenomenal animanga (anime and manga) originally created by Gege Akutami. Akutami released the first volume of the manga on December 3, 2019, which…
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The Batman Review
The Caped Crusader is back on the silver screen, and he’s better than ever. Matt Reeves’ The Batman has finally released in theaters, after years of hype, and it’s tough to figure out what…
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3 Books That Play with your Concept of Time
If you haven’t noticed, we are limited by time. As hard as we might try, we cannot change the number of hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a year, or…
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Slime Rancher Review
Beatrix LeBeau is an aspiring young woman looking for opportunity in the expansive world of “The Far, Far, Range”, a planet inhabited by several species of cute extraterrestrial slimes. Through Beatrix, the player explores…
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Where to Shop for Your 2022 Winterfest Dress
The month of February is upon us, which means many students are forming groups and making reservations to celebrate Winterfest. One aspect of Winterfest many girls look forward to is shopping for the perfect…
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My Christmas Books Review
I am back again with another book review. Every year I ask for a few books for Christmas. This year, I would like to share the books I asked for this Christmas and my…
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Marvel in 2022: What’s Coming Next?
2021 was a monumental year for Marvel Studios. The massive Disney-owned studio, known worldwide for its blockbuster superhero flicks, branched out for the first time in its 13 year history to official TV shows.…
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Howl’s Moving Castle Review
Anime has become increasingly popular as shows like Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan become more mainstream. However, none of this would have been possible without Studio Ghibli popularizing the genre back in the…
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House of Gucci Movie Review
Ridley Scott’s, House of Gucci, was released on November 24, 2021. Did the two-hour and thirty-minute movie really live up to its hype? The movie is based on the novel The House of Gucci:…
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Review of The Unforgivable
This Netflix movie adaptation of Unforgiven, a 2009 British miniseries, is much better than expected and has captivated the audience. Overview The star-studded cast tells the story of Ruth Slater (Sandra Bullock), a recently…
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Chicago Concert Review: 54 Years Later and Still Going
On November 4, my family and I saw the band Chicago live at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Going into the concert, I was extremely excited because Chicago is one of my favorite bands…
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Note in the Pocket Charity
As the holiday season approaches, it is a time to think of the less fortunate. A stellar charity to give support to this season is Note in the Pocket. Note in the Pocket donates…
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Dune Review
{MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS} Dune was published in 1965 by an intelligent figure in his time. Frank Herbert, who was both ahead of his time and underappreciated by his generation, made a book so unexpected…
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We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal
We Hunt the Flame is a beautiful high fantasy novel by Hafsah Faizal. I love unique fantasies, and this book was very different from most novels I’ve read in this genre. Most popular fantasy…
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Halo Infinite Review
Halo Infinite is a game developed by 343 industries and was available on November 15. The game in its current form has two modes: campaign mode and multiplayer. Each mode is a completely different…
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Tiger King, Season Two
Tiger King, released in March of 2020, is a documentary series exploring big cat breeding and the people behind it. Throughout the series, the film crew follows many weird people including one of the…
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My Experience at Disney World During COVID
What Precautions Have Been Taken? In November, my family went on a four day trip to Disney World. During this trip, I decided to take note of the precautions the company was taking to…
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Samurai Champloo Review
Samurai Champloo is a beautiful anime. The manga originally released in January 2004, and its anime adaptation released soon after in May 2005. Shinchirō Watanabe directed the show. Watanabe is well known for his…
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Aurora Rising Review
Aurora has been asleep in space for two hundred years. When someone finally wakes her up, she finds herself caught in ancient powers far greater than she imagined possible. A team of graduates from…
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Red Taylor’s Version: Everything You Need To Know
The time has come where Taylor Swift has released her version of her 2012 album Red. On November 12, fans not only got recordings of all her old songs, but an additional 10 news…
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The Cruel Prince Review
The world of the fae has been in literature for a very long time. I happen to really enjoy fae folklore and stories, so I was really excited when I first heard about The…