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The Female vs. Male Gaze

Milla Hirsch and Christiana Cino March 21, 2024

What was your diet for the movie role? Are the dating rumors true? What was the hair and makeup process for this red carpet? Imagine devoting months or years to a movie production only to be asked fluff...

My Top 5 Wes Anderson Films

My Top 5 Wes Anderson Films

Cierra Nervo, Opinion Editor February 25, 2024

Wesley Wales Anderson, better known as Wes Anderson, is an American filmmaker and director renowned for his unique cinematography. His movies feature beautiful stories about the complexity of the human...

The Boy & The Heron

The Boy & The Heron

Owen Noble and Ada Green February 2, 2024

100 Years of Disney

100 Years of Disney

Cierra Nervo, Opinion Editor January 12, 2024

Described as a “love letter” to Walt Disney Animation Studios by the directors, Walt Disney Pictures released an animated short film to celebrate 100 years of film production. Featuring characters...

Hollywood on Hold

Hollywood on Hold

Cierra Nervo, Opinion Editor November 16, 2023

For the first time in 60 years, Hollywood writers and actors went on strike in retaliation against unfair wages and artificial intelligence programs replacing script-writers and voice actors. The strike...

Barbie Review

Barbie Review

Owen Noble and Sofia Ramirez November 14, 2023

Entertaining, artistic, and complex are just a few of the words Laguna’s students used to describe the 2023 summer blockbuster, “Barbie.” Thanks to Barbies extensive history the movie caught the...

welcome to victory

welcome to victory

Cierra Nervo and Elli Westmacott June 16, 2023

Welcome to the future. Welcome to utopia. Welcome to sweet sun-soaked success. Welcome to the flawless reality of the “Victory” project, an epiphany of the ideal society. This is the setting of film...

Santa Barbara Film Fest: Celebrating Cinema

Santa Barbara Film Fest: Celebrating Cinema

Luca D'Agruma and Alexandra Siegel April 9, 2023

Lights, camera, and action! This phrase is often used to describe the excitement and anticipation that comes with the start of a film or video production, and it perfectly captures the atmosphere of the...

Instant Gratification

Instant Gratification

Phoebe Stein June 3, 2019

"Can I see it?” one may ask as soon as the camera shutter goes off. “Just take a few more, I think you caught my bad side,” is muttered as people flip through an array of digital photos. This is...

The Future (of film) is Female

The Future (of film) is Female

Ava Morouse April 19, 2018

As she stepped onto the stage to present the award for Best Director at this year’s Golden Globes, actress Natalie Portman drew a deep breath and said,“And here, all the all-male nominees.” This...

Network Medicals Through the Lense

Network Medical’s “Through the Lense”

February 24, 2016

  Network Medical Women's Center is a non-profit primary care medical clinic that has an annual fundraiser each year held at the Granada Theatre. Last year our keynote speaker was Nick Vujicic,...

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

February 28, 2013

“In We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks,” Academy Award winning documentary film maker Alex Gibney masterfully weaves together the complex story of Julian Assange’s famed and controversial website....

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