Review – The Herald

Your New Quarantine Queue

April 14, 2020

Disregarding the title, Niall Horan’s new album, “Heartbreak Weather” has been the sanguine music to this depressing quarantine. Niall Horan has stepped out of his hopeless romantic box with this album. Although the album still has tastes of the old, slow Niall Horan, it is full of energy and high spirits. The albu...

New Call of Duty reboot proves to be successfull

December 10, 2019

Call of Duty. A common name in video game culture, whether it be the less than nice words about the recent year entries into the franchise or the genre defining early titles the series is almost synonymous with the words video games. As of recent years the entries in the series were less than stellar. Starting with Advanced...

Max Egger’s The Lighthouse a movie

December 10, 2019

I remember the first time I finished watching The Shining very vividly. Part of the reason why it is still so fresh in my mind even now is its classic refusal to make sense. I obsessed about what all of it could mean; it prompted me to trek to the center of what made film itself tick. I researched subtext and the use of color ...

Yeezus is no longer king: a review

December 10, 2019

Everybody has feelings about Kanye West. Every person you will see doing person things in a normal fashion participating in society has heard of and has to some degree developed a codified idea and opinion of Kanye West. Throughout his 15 year bender-esque career, he has rubbed elbows with entire trunk loads of genres, reputation...

“Dear Evan Hansen” musical inspires audience

November 11, 2019

When it comes to entertainment our phone or computer is often the first place we look to get it. But even the immense 30ft tall screens that we encounter in movie theatres can’t compare to the experience of something so up close as live theatre. I recently went to see the musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” and it truly rekindl...

Father’s influence inspires love of Tarantino films

JACK WILLIAMS

October 1, 2019

If you were to ask anybody my age how they connected with their fathers when they were just becoming children, a hearty number of them would most likely point to sports. And notwithstanding my fathers attempt to siphon golf into me, the movies and music shown to me by him continue to stuff my brain with inspiration and love...

Mayhem is coming in Borderlands 3

September 24, 2019

The day was April 3, I was sat in sixth period German 1 as a livestream for Gearbox Software started. The screen flashed with a picture of the Iconic Psycho mask, I knew exactly what was coming. A few minutes later and the tagline was shown: “Mayhem is coming”. Fast forward to present day, and Mayhem did come, in a b...

Us: a review

Lauren Burgin, Reporter

April 29, 2019

When I began to see the trailers for the film Us, it was very blatantly a horror themed movie. There were a lot of eyes on this new movie, and a lot of it was due to the fact that Jordan Peele was the writer, producer, and director. This name will sound familiar from the widely known movie, Get Out. The two movies seemed to...

The Act: a review

Lauren Burgin, Reporter

April 29, 2019

The Act is an American, true crime series on the streaming service, Hulu. The show follows the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, and the event that led up to a murder. I had heard little about the case of Gypsy Rose, but I knew the basis of it before the series started airing. The story is ...

Shazam: a review

Katherine Carson, Online Editor

April 29, 2019

In early April, an incredible superhero movie was released into theaters and it wasn't Captain Marvel or the soon to be released Avengers: Endgame, it was Shazam. As a superhero enthusiast and comic shop worker, I went into the movie expecting DC Comics to again butcher one of its characters with forced exposition and dark lighting. Wit...

Mean Girls: a review

Halle Roberts, Editor

April 29, 2019

“Mean Girls” is not only a hilarious book written by Rosalind Wiseman, and a classic screenplay written by Tina Fey, but is now a phenomenal Broadway play. Filled with great musical numbers and humorous scenes, it portrays a great message of being true to yourself. While on a trip to New York, I had the privilege to watch this g...

Five Feet Apart: a review

Gory George, Reporter

April 29, 2019

Five Feet Apart where love is found but then faces an obstacle between two strong lovers is a 2019 American romantic drama film written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis and directed by Justin Baldoni. Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a patient. Her life is about routines, boundar...