The Stargazer is a student-led entertainment platform that gives students the opportunity to write, review, and publish online articles covering movies, games, and entertainment news relevant to them and the ASLC. It provides hands-on experience in content creation and writing, while also serving as a unique outlet to showcase ASLC events beyond traditional social media channels.
The Stargazer
Twisters Review
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| Author: Tony Molina | Artist: Tony Molina
Lee Isaac Chung’s Legacy sequel to the 1996 disaster movie classic Twister, aptly named Twisters, represents an exception to blockbuster filmmaking that prioritizes in-camera effects and awe inspiring spectacle achieved through the actors tangible interaction with their ca
FNAF Lore: 1990s- 2023 Summarized
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| Author: Dylan Wood | Artist: Tony Molina
Michael Afton and Ennard (Sister Location) – Late 1990s: In the Sister Location game, you play from the perspective of Michael again, working overnight at an underground storage facility to tend to his father’s creations, which have now turned into rental animatronics.
Category: Gaming
FNAF Lore: 1970-1993 Summarized
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| Author: Dylan Wood | Artist: Tony Molina
The Beginning (FNAF 4) – 1970-1983: Two men, named William Afton and Henry Emily go in on a Chuck-E-Cheese-like establishment called Fredbear’s Family Diner.
Category: Gaming
The Minecraft Movie Trailer: Aw, Man
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| Author: Addison Delgado | Artist: Brooke Barnes
I’ve been a longtime Minecraft player, my earliest memories of the game are playing on Xbox 360 with my four sisters. To put how long I’ve been playing into perspective, I played before creative mode was released.
The Shining: Why it Works
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| Author: Giovanni Rodriguez | Artist: Solymar Estrella
The Shining. If you were to walk around asking strangers about this movie, the chances are most of them would at least know of it, and those who had seen it would mostly agree–it’s a pretty solid horror movie.
The Best Musical Scores of 2023
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| Author: Chris Robertson | Artist: Solymar Estrella
2023 was one of the most memorable years for film. Perhaps even more memorable than the films themselves were the musical scores that accompanied them.
It's Funny How One Verse Can F**k up the Game
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| Author: Tony Molina | Artist: Solymar Estrella
Kendrick Lamar said that on Hood Politics from To Pimp a Butterfly. He was right in 2015 when the song was released the same way he was right in 2013 and right again in 2024.
Category: Music
Kung Fu Panda 4: The Five are Gone, and the People are Furious
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| Author: Phaedra Mladenovic | Artist: Newt Wilder
On a calm December day, the masses were blessed with the gift of the first Kung Fu Panda 4 trailer. While most had not even known about the film’s existence, the gleeful surprise would be a chance to see our favorite characters once more: a lovable panda, a wise master, a cunning villain, but mostly a stern, ferocious, oddly attractive tiger voiced by Angelina Jolie.
Problemista Deserves to Go Far
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| Author: Antony Molina | Artist: Solymar Estrella
“She’s just trying to get to that audition,” Julio Torres says about “our Queen” Anna Faris’s protagonist character in Gregg Araki's Smiley Face. This is part of his answer I asked him in a college roundtable promoting his new Dramedy and directorial debut Problemista.
Category: Movies
Before Midnight; After Dreams
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| Author: Tony Molina | Artist: Solymar Estrella
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset feel like the most important things in the world for these two tender souls. Jesse and Celine’s two most pivotal moments in their lives. When they fell in love, and when they decided to spend the rest of their lives together.
The Musical Success of Poor Things and Where it Came From
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| Author: Tony Molina | Artist: Solymar Estrella
Praise has been heaped ad nauseam on Poor Things. Lanthimos’ pristine direction, with his signature embellishments of morbid deadpan, has now taken to new heights with a whole world to play off of his usual tricks.
Category: Music
Black Swan, Suspiria, and the Horrifically Feminine World of Ballet
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| Author: Phaedra Mladenovic | Artist: Solymar Estrella
As a psychological thriller, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010) borrows heavily from the gendered tropes of the horror genre while also cultivating some of their own.
Disabilities Representation in Reality TV
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| Author: Emily Wilmot | Artist: Solymar Estrella
The Bachelor and all the other shows in the franchise have become a part of my weekly routine in the last couple years. It’s one of my favorite things to do with my friends.
Scott Pilgrim vs.The Romance Analysis: Pixelated Romance and Symbolic Battles
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| Author: Miranda Muller | Artist: Solymar Estrella
If you think modern-day dating is complex, imagine going through the ultimate test of strength and commitment by having to defeat seven evil exes to get the girl. In the neon-colored, video-game-inspired, indie-rock band landscape of Scott Pilgrim vs.
Justifying My Purchase
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| Author: Tony Molina | Artist: Cooper Lyon
We’re at a point right now where the then-niche nerd interests of the past are the driving elements of pop culture. Being a superfan of anime, comic media or fantasy and sci-fi worlds is normal. These things make billions of dollars off of the casual interests of millions.
