Uncut Gems: Is Sandler Making A Comeback?
MacKenzie Morris, FCHS Journalist
January 23, 2020
Movie Mogul Adam Sandler is back on the movie scene after the recent flop of his Netflix movie Murder Mystery in early 2019. With the release of his newest piece, Uncut Gems, ringing in the new year, fans of the actor fled to theaters hoping for a hit. Luckily, Sandler has indeed delivered a true art-piece to his ...
Star Wars: The Rise Of Disappointment
John Bernat, Fluco Beat Editor
January 16, 2020
Despite earning nearly $1 billion dollars at the box office, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is one of the worst Star Wars films to date. At first, Disney's three-part addition to the Star Wars saga showed promise with its first release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens back in 2015. While flawed, the characters we...
The 10 Best Movies Of The 10 Best Years
John Bernat, Fluco Beat Editor
December 18, 2019
The 2010’s has started, ended, and given new life to some of the greatest movies and movie franchises in all of cinema. So with the decade coming to a close, it’s time for a proper send off with the 10 best movies from the past 10 years. 10. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) Kicking off the li...
Lucifer Provides a Devil of a Good Time
Courtlynn Evans, FCHS Journalist
December 10, 2019
Arguably one of the best Netflix original shows, Lucifer, which is now in it fourth season, is a comedy/drama/supernatural show based on the premise that Satan, otherwise known as Lucifer Morningstar, has taken a vacation from his underworldly duties and has decided to stay and party on Earth. There, ...
The Invincible Ip Man Trilogy
John Bernat, Fluco Beat Editor
November 22, 2019
If Bruce Lee was the greatest martial artist to live, what does that make the man who trained him? Ip Man, also known as Yip Man, was the grandmaster of Wing-Chun, the school of martial arts which produced Bruce Lee (who became famous in the 1970’s for his films including kung fu movies Fists of Fury an...
Spreading Awareness Through Melodies
Aubreanna Gray, FCHS Journalist
November 15, 2019
Singer Melanie Martinez got her start from her 2012 audition on The Voice, and although she didn’t win, she only grew from there. Martinez’s very first album dropped in 2015, and was called Cry Baby. This singer from Canada let her creativeness shine in this album. Since then, Martinez has been k...
Book Review – Carrie By Stephen King
Madison Fain, FCHS Journalist
November 5, 2019
If Halloween inspired you for a spooky read, look no further than Stephen King’s classic horror story, Carrie. King is a New York Times bestselling novelist who has written many horror and fantasy novels including Pet Sematary, The Dark Tower, Cujo, Christine, Thinner, It, and The Shining. His first ...
Is ‘El Camino’ Breaking Bad?
MacKenzie Morris, FCHS Journalist
October 22, 2019
For many years, fans of the Breaking Bad franchise have followed the show’s twisted story-line since its original release in 2008. From a glance, this series appears as a perfect ballad of crime escapades, with everything from intense shootouts to stacks of money piled high to the ceiling. The st...
Joker: The Darkest Comic Book Movie
John Bernat, Fluco Beat Editor
October 22, 2019
Joker is a dark, realistic character study of a mentally ill man whose entire life has been meaningless--meaningless, that is, until he sparks political controversy by murdering three men on a subway and slowly losing touch with reality. Arthur Fleck (played with broken perfection by Joa...
Bringing Home The Blood: Rambo, Last Blood
John Bernat, Fluco Beat Editor
October 4, 2019
The character of John Rambo set a new kind of action character standard in 1982 with First Blood, leading to a series of movies collectively known as Rambo. Mostly silent and efficiently destructive, John Rambo is emotionally, mentally, and physically scarred from the loss of his friends in the Vietnam...