Andrew Hrip

Movie Review: Beautiful Boy: Emotional film about drug addiction 0
- Campus Life
- November 16, 2018
Everything. It’s what all good parents want to do for and give to their children to help them succeed in life. It also demonstrates that their undying love will prevail, even through the most dire of circumstances. This is a sentiment reflected but also put to the ultimate test in “Beautiful Boy,” directed by Felix
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Movie Review: Halloween (2018): This film frazzles instead of frightens 0
- Campus Life
- October 25, 2018
A rather meager budget of $300,000. Making summer in southern California look like autumn in the Midwest. A simple music score involving the repetition of a few notes. An opening sequence which would make brilliant use of a new kind of camera. Most importantly, an altered William Shatner “Star Trek” mask, conveying the blank stare
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Movie Review: Peppermint: This movie is more stale than sweet 0
- Campus Life
- October 11, 2018
I will look for you. I will find you. And I will kill you.” These simple words may be one of the most popular film quotes forever ingrained into our lexicon and into the psyches of filmgoers from the recent past. Convincing. Intense. Fear-inducing. The jump-off point of Liam Neeson’s desperate search for his kidnapped
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Movie Review: “BlacKkKlansman”: Powerful, relevant today 0
- Campus Life
- September 13, 2018
A plain-clothed African-American police officer chases after a white woman who has just planted a bomb on the hood of an African-American woman’s car. He tackles her to the ground trying to arrest her. A police car pulls up. Two white officers emerge with their guns drawn as the woman falsely shouts, “Rape!” Trying to
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