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Review on ‘10 Things I Hate About You’

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By: Marina Yang

This is my review on ‘10 Things I Hate About You’. ‘10 Things I Hate About You’, is directed by Gil Junger, produced by Andrew Lazar, and written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith. Our main characters consist of Bianca and Kat Stratford (sisters), Patrick Verona (acquainted with Kat), Cameron James (acquainted with Bianca) and the antagonist Joey Donner.

The movie is an early 2000s romance movie that revolves around two developing relationships with problems to overcome, inside the relationships and out. It all starts off with Cameron, who is a new student, who sees Bianca and crushes on her hard. There’s another thing though, she’s boy crazy for another dude named Joey. Also, Bianca is under a new rule where she can’t date unless her sister Kat is too. This seemed easy for Cameron to fix until he realized who her sister was, a total ‘loser’ who isn’t interested in boys or relationships. He ends up finding a fitting candidate for the job, of dating Kat, in Patrick.

I found this movie to be an emotional ride, it had its ups and downs, cringey moments and a little tears, but overall I found it pretty sweet. It has the old-school romance a lot of people romanticize and admire, really capturing the lover-boy and hard to get girl relationship dynamic.

Besides just the romance, it briefly covers the changes Kat goes through from middle-school to high-school, expressing the truth behind her “rebellious” act in the movie. Teaching people the importance and impacts of pushing yourself to fit into an/or someone’s image of you, and diving into something you’re not ready for. Which I feel is valuable to a certain crowd who dreams for a relationship, and romanticizes all the cute acts in these kinds of romcoms.

Though, I don’t think they truly know how differently this generation has changed over time, we’ve grown into a generation where it’s normal to ask people out via text or phone number, etc., not any love letters or devoting themselves through a song.

Besides that, I’d give it a 4.5/5. It’s good in my book, but I may just not have enough pages to really consider it a finalized product/book to truly read and believe. What I really like about this movie though is the ending, Kat says something truly heart-warming yet sad in the moment, showing how much she cherished the time they shared together.

You can watch ’10 Things I Hate About you’ on Netflix or Disney+, or rent it on other streaming services.

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My review on ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’

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By: Kendra Shanklin

*Warning: this review contains spoilers

‘The Recap’

‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ is a horror movie that was released on September 5th, 2025. It’s about a married couple named Ed and Lorraine Warren who were paranormal investigators and also help families get evil spirits out of their homes. The movie is rated ‘R’ for its bloody images, violent content, and terror.

In previous movie’s investigations, they have had bad entities but nothing ever experienced like this before. This movie’s investigation is one of the worst they had and is what brought their careers to an end.

In the first half of the movie there’s a flashback of Ed and Lorraine as they had investigated a haunted antique mirror. Lorraine goes up to the mirror and says to it that she can feel the spirit. When Lorraine touches the mirror she is sent into early labor, and out of nowhere she sees a vision of a demonic entity and her unborn child. She gives birth to her daughter Judy, who is a stillborn child but survives.

In the present day of 1986, Ed and Lorraine are now older and now already thinking about retiring from paranormal investigations. But they get a call from a family about how their daughter, named Heather, is getting haunted by a mirror that she was gifted from her grandparents.

A little while later Heather is about to blow the candles off her cake but magically it blows out by itself. Instantly she blames her sister Dawn. They start bickering but then they brush it off. Then, out of nowhere, the light from above Heather comes down and hits her in the head and she falls to the ground and starts bleeding.

A little while later Heather and Dawn are in the room together and Heather says that she feels weird about the mirror and hates how creepy it is. So they make a plan to take it out to the trash, The next morning everyone is eating breakfast and Dawn says she doesn’t feel good. She starts gagging and throwing up blood; everyone is shocked and screaming.

‘My Review’

When I saw the trailer of the movie I already knew I wanted to watch it because I always loved ‘The Conjuring’, and just scary movies in general.

But one thing I love about this movie is that it shows all the backstories leading up to what happened and even sometimes other backstories from the previous Conjuring movies. But I do wish it has a little more jump scares and things to make the movie more scary like how it is in the other Conjuring movies because it’s mostly just a lot of talking.

But either way the movie was pretty good and it’s based on a true story so that’s what makes it already kinda creepy.

If you like horror movies that are based on a true story and that scare you, I’d recommend this movie for you.

Remember that this movie is rated R because of the blood and terror, so if you’re watching this around children be careful. But overall, I give this movie a 9/10 rating

Thank you a lot for reading this review I really hope you’re willing to watch this movie after seeing my review 🤍You can watch ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, or in theaters.

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‘To the Bone’

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By: Chloe Rocha

*Warning: This article contains details related to eating disorders

‘To the Bone’ is a movie that was directed by Marti Noxon, and it stars Lily Collins as Ellen who later goes by Eli, Keanu Reeves as Dr. William Beckham, Alex Sharp as Luke, and many other brilliant actors.

This film follows the life of Ellen, who is a 20-year-old woman, while struggling with severe anorexia. Anorexia is a form of an eating disorder which causes the person who is suffering from it to obsess about their weight and what they eat. Ellen undergoes treatment at a recovery home that isn’t like the typical treatment place.

This film was able to portray the raw realities of eating disorders and the tolls it takes on the person and also the loved ones all around them. It was inspired by Marti Noxon’s own personal experience with an eating disorder.

Ellen had been to many other treatment facilities before arriving to the one that she is at during the film. The recovery home had a different approach at trying to help the patients.

Rather than solely focusing on weight gain, like a typical treatment facility for eating disorders would, the one run by Dr. William Beckham, was designed for a more personal approach to battling their illness.

It focused a lot on self advocacy and healing at their own pace. At the house, it wasn’t just a place filled with patients, all of the people who were there, were there for very similar reasons. This created a strong bond between them all. They were more than just a group of patients there, they were all a family.

I think that the fact that Marti Noxon made this movie based on her own experiences with an eating disorder was what made the film such an accurate representation of what it can be like. One example I have is when Ellen’s sister said “I don’t get it, just eat”, those words are what many people who struggle with eating disorders constantly hear. They are told to just eat, and the people telling them this usually don’t understand how challenging it can be.

Doing one simple task of just eating, can feel like a chore sometimes and especially to those who already struggle eating. I found this movie very hard to watch at times, but I think that it is one that people need to see. It shows the harsh realities of eating disorders and it lets people learn what it can be like.

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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘SEVEN’

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By: Charlotte Bistodeau

The movie ‘Seven’ (sometimes seen as ‘Se7en’), is a 1995 R-rated, crime/horror film directed by David Fincher (who also directed 1999’s ‘Fight Club’, 2011’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’, and 2023’s ‘The Killer’) and written by Andrew Kevin Walker (who also wrote 1999’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’, 2010’s ‘Wolfman’, and 2023’s ‘The Killer’).

The film follows two police detectives, William Somerset and David Mills, as they hunt down the serial killer who kills their victims based on the seven deadly sins. It’s hard to give any more information on the story of the movie because you pretty much know about as much as the two detectives at the beginning and learn along with them. This makes the movie interesting. Instead of knowing things that the main characters don’t, you know only what they know, making you invested in each scene.

I would say that there aren’t a lot of horror aspects except a few dead body’s. Instead, there is a sense of dread making you feel like something bad could happen at any moment throughout the film. The ending of the movie though, is perfect. There couldn’t be a better ending to it.

I enjoyed the main characters thoroughly. Many horror movies throughout the 1980’s and 90’s have an incredibly stupid amount of main characters. Many times you end up being annoyed with these stupid characters and even end up rooting for the killer (or being extremely disappointed in the killer for not having killed them by now). But ‘Se7en’ is not that movie. William Somerset is incredibly smart, to the point that he’s able to figure out by the first two murders that they were done by the same person. Even David Mills, who is not as smart as Somerset, still has a personality that is able to put two and two together. These things make you root for them. It also helps that the actors of William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and David Mills (Brad Pitt) do a great job at playing their characters.

The background music is something else. You don’t notice it. Or at least I didn’t. It wasn’t bad, in fact it was great, it was just that you get so invested into the story that the background music doesn’t stand out. It adds feeling without making it noticeable.

You can buy the DVD for about 25$ on Amazon or you can watch it on HBO or YouTube Premium.

I’ve watched a lot of horror movies from the 1980’s-90’s and this one is definitely my favorite. Even compared to horror movies today, it’s still my favorite. So, I would have to rate it a 10/10. If you really like psychological horror or crime horror, I would definitely recommend this movie to watch.