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
Full Circle Film Festival
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| Author: Sarah Moloney | Artist: Isabella Limbo
Do you have a passion for filmmaking? Would you like to see your work up on the big screen? Then there is an event coming up just for you! FSU’s Student Life Cinema, in partnership with Aquila Entertainment, presents the Full Circle Film Festival on September 29th.
Category: Film, Miscellaneous
One Man's Trash Planet is Another Man's Treasure Planet
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| Author: Daly Mann | Artist: Isabella Limbo
In the late days of November 2002 came the release of a film that should have been another multi-million success story for Walt Disney Studios. After all, how could it possibly do bad?
The Strange '80s: Stranger Things Brings Back '80s Culture
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| Author: Soylmar Estrella | Artist: Al Kilkelly
The tight grip that the ‘80s has on our generation is gnarly, as they used to say. A time of hairspray, phones that resembled cement blocks, and the uprise of what we recognize today as a modern society.
Greek Myths Live On
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| Author: Maria Assimakopoulos | Artist: Isabella Limbo
Ancient Greece started thousands of years ago. Being one of the first advanced civilizations, not only is its lore rich and diverse, but much of the modern-day also has roots in Greece or Greek traditions. One of these similarities is through the ever-growing media landscape.
Category: Miscellaneous, Movies
Top Gun: Maverick is a Reference Point for Sequel-Making Magnificence
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| Author: Shawn | Artist: Isabella Limbo
Thirty-six years after the first film, audiences had the opportunity to bundle into theatres to view Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited sequel to 1986’s Top Gun. Reaching Mach-10, the action sequel hauled in more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box offic
Category: Review
Abbott Elementary Delivers Critical Commentary on the American Public Education System Through Satire
The American public education system while, having undoubtable strengths, has been a lesson in imperfection. For the past fifty years, funding constraints, compensation dilemmas, and resource shortages have been perennial plagues of an arrangement designed to educate the Union’s brightest.
D&D for Dummies (It’s me, I am the dummy)
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| Author: Mia Hernandez | Artist: Mia Hernandez
I recently ventured to unlock my inner "gamer girl" persona by joining my friend’s D&D campaign. I’ve always loved the idea of role-playing games (RPGs) but have never really made an effort to learn about them.
Category: Gaming
Top 12 Best Shows to Watch This Summer
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| Author: Mia Hernandez | Artist: Laura Pellini
If you’re anything like me, you look forward to the summer semester for its calmer, less stressful course load, not to mention Tallahassee’s diminished traffic (as a college-driver, I would like to apologize on behalf of my schoolmates for the nonsense we pull on Tennessee St).
How Bel-Air & Atlanta are Changing the Narrative for Coming-of-Age Black & POC Stories on Television
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| Author: Shawn | Artist: Meg Cabras
Bel-Air and Atlanta, with undeniable bravado and charisma, captured the imaginations of viewers and reinvigorated modern storytelling in unlikely ways. The story behind the creation of these two televised gems, even more unlikely.
Why the Umbrella Academy’s Viktor Hargreeves Matters: A Brief Analysis of Trans Representation in Television
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| Author: Mia Hernandez | Artist: Eve Larkin
With the new season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy being released June 22nd, Elliot Page has announced that his character in the TV show will be transitioning from Vanya to Viktor Hargreeves. In his Instagram post, Page re-introduces his character as Viktor Hargreeves.
2040: The Earth Has A Chance
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| Author: Maria Assimakopoulos | Artist: Meg Cabras
There is no more time for denying. Climate change is real and people around the world have already been feeling the consequences due to the inaction by those in charge.
The Legend of Vox Machina: The Best New Animated Series You Haven’t Heard off
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| Author: Mia Hernandez | Artist: Mia Hernandez
The Legend of Vox Machina is Amazon Prime's newest adult-geared animated fantasy series based on a DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (D&D) campaign by Critical Role, a well-known D&D roleplay group.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: A Bizarre, Absurdist Triumph
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| Author: Mia Hernandez | Artist: Solymar Estrella
When I first walked out of the theater after watching Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, the first sentence I said to my mother was: “What the f&%$?” Caught up in the sheer chaos of the movie’s plot, my mother and I both failed to appreciate the movie’s deeper hidden messages
Exposed in Your Living Room
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| Author: Maria Assimakopoulos | Artist: Yanni Spanolios
Content Warning: Potentially Triggering Topics
Why Everyone Should Watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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| Author: Yanni Spanolios | Artist: Judah Bachmann
There are a few films which are so definitive to their genre that they not only provide an unforgettable viewing experience but also serve to enlighten viewers to the possibilities of cinema as an art form.
