The Student Newspaper of Acalanes High School
Tag: Arts
The New Nintendo Switch Proves to be Revolutionary
By Zachary Varela, Staff Writer Any person who has a minimal understanding about gaming knows about Nintendo’s incredible ability to innovate. The Nintendo Wii introduced the motion sensor and the Wii U incorporated the idea of a gamepad. With every passing console, Nintendo looks
Student Filmmakers Producing Silent in the Moonlight
By Sasha Chernomorsky, Staff Writer Acalanes student film Silent in the Moonlight directed by senior Matthew Magnus, set to come out in June of 2017, focuses on an aspiring high school filmmaker named Damien. While working on his biggest project yet, he falls in
Get Out Breathes New Life Into the Horror Comedy Genre
By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer Coming off of five seasons of the hilarious Key and Peele and a starring role in Keanu, Jordan Peele has delivered his first feature directorial effort with the astonishingly impressive Get Out. The film follows an African-American
Musical Review: Bye Bye Birdie Flies Audience Away
By Annika Walker, Online Editor-in-Chief Who doesn’t love a hunk in a dazzling gold suit crooning to swooning masses of teenage girls? Through pristinely sweet soprano lines and bass parts that caused the very stage to tremble, Bye Bye Birdie hit all the
Movie Rewind: Drive Dazzles with Style and Intensity
By Kahren Eloyan, Opinion Editor // Movie Rewind is a new feature at Blueprint where one of our writers uncovers and reviews a great film that either no one knows about or that everyone’s forgotten. First up in this series is the film whose
Top 10 Greatest Cinematic Hits of 2016-2017 Season
By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer // The Oscars are coming around once again, and the time has come to examine the movies of 2016. A large portion of the year in film was very disappointing, with a summer movie season that flopped critically
New High School Shows Opening in the New Year
By Fiona Burrows, Staff Writer For the high school theatre scene, the new year means dozens of new shows. March is musical season in Lamorinda’s local high schools’ performing arts programs. Acalanes will be putting on Bye Bye Birdie, a musical comedy set
While the Beasts are Fantastic, the Movie is Not So
By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 marked the end of the Harry Potter film franchise, which had spanned ten years and eight movies, and inspired a demographic of children and adults alike. The legacy of
Marvel’s Doctor Strange Bends Audience’s Minds
By Karl-Erik Mills, Staff Writer and Videographer //Doctor Strange is the 14th installment into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and marks the second film of phase 3 of Marvel films, following May’s Captain America: Civil War. Phase 3 of MCU films marks a large turn
Cast of Radium Girls Delivers Glowing Performance
By Fiona Burrows and Clara Kobashigawa, Staff Writer and News Editor //With a only a year left to live and 250,000 dollars to spend, what would you do? In the 1920’s, factory workers named “the radium girls” are faced with this question as time slowly