“The Nun II” is a graphic example of the typical, predictable horror feature, via the director of “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.” We always expect less from a sequel, no matter the genre....

If it weren’t for comedies like “You Hurt My Feelings,” I’d lose faith in the genre’s ability to produce candid and touching films. Beth, a writer who recently finished her final draft for...

A grad student in physics has difficulty in the lab, and his teacher mocks him for it. But he's exceptionally talented in the theoretical side of his major. The student is Robert Oppenheimer. What stood...

Barbie (Margot Robbie) is having real-world problems. Thoughts of death, and then a heap of bodily symptoms, including flat feet, bad breath, and worst of all, cellulite. To remedy this, she seeks the...

“Run Rabbit Run” is a slow-burning thriller that came to Netflix this summer.  It begins with a shot of Sarah, the mother, who doesn’t know what to do with her daughter, Mia. Ever since Mia’s...

A progression of villagers, dressed in the same red robes, slowly walk over a bridge and into an awning. They all don identical masks, and all carry a lit torch. They arrive to sit at a noh play, an example...

"Turning Red" is a movie about a daughter freeing herself from the restraints of her family, especially her mother. It reminds me of another movie about an immigrant family whose second-generation daughter...

Florence, a middling woman in her twenties, housekeeps for the Greenbergs, a well-off family living in California. When they're away in Vietnam for the opening of one of the father, Phillip’s hotels,...

Fame and fortune are looked upon with awe. "Hunger,” a 2023 Taiwanese film directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri, sees the attention and calls it what it is: an obsession with being special. For this, as...

Love is complex. This truth is something we must learn over the course of our lives. But, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" dedicates itself to revealing that truth to us, and through its superb...

"Little Miss Sunshine," an idiosyncratic movie released in 2006, starred some now-recognizable names, namely Steve Carrell of "The Office," Toni Collette of "Hereditary" and Paul Dano of "The Batman."...

The film starts with an introduction of the main character, Lydia Tar (Cate Blanchett.) She’s a composer and maestro whose reputation is too long to list here, accomplishments including graduating from...

The story of Abraham from the book of Genesis has been told for thousands of years. I hadn’t really taken in the story before, so I entered “His Only Son” this past Easter not knowing what would...

Metalcore is commonly misconstrued. We tend to associate metal with large scary men with guitars with two necks, leather jackets, long hair and a fanbase as brutal as the music. While this may be the truth...

"Ruth," a yet-to-be-named character warmly narrates. She’s reading a letter addressed to Ruth in the beginning of "Fast Color.” The audience is introduced to a world in chaos, where the water has dried...

“Car crashes are a celebration… an event of optimism,” Professor Murray (Don Cheadle) at the College-on-a-Hill says to his class. “Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of...

Ove, a geriatric man with a perturbed expression, is in a flower shop where he finds a little pink bouquet. After getting in line to buy it, he sees a woman come up and cut him in line when he blurts,...

In the opening scene, we see Debbie and Peter, played by Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, respectively. The movie's captioning provides some humor to the scene, as well as the ridiculousness of pretending...

"Empire of Light" opens in a theater with an antique popcorn stand, a ticketing booth and film reels piled on top of each other. It's an early winter morning, and the Empire Cinema hasn't opened yet. That...

Leslie (Andrea Roseborough) is kicked out of her hotel. Considering who she could go to for help, she asks to live with her 19-year-old son James, played by Owen Teague.  Owing to the need she has...

The titular feline, once again played by Antonio Banderas in a silky Spanish accent for “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” saves the day as usual in the vein of a cat-sized Robin Hood, pouring the gold...

Before this thanksgiving, I tried going vegan, and since then I haven't looked back. That’s not to say it’s been easy. I’ve had to scrape the cheese off of a slice of pizza. I had to decline an...

An open-to-all screening of the film “At the Fork,” a heart-felt documentary about the animal agriculture industry, was hosted by COD Students for Animal Welfare as their first event of the fall semester...

Robert Moorehead, an associate professor of sociology at COD, dispelled long standing falsehoods about people who immigrate to the United States. As part of a presentation Moorehead gave last Wednesday,...

Gathered at Naperville's Fredenhagen Park, a group of organizers talked amongst themselves and got ready for a march. The march would begin in less than an hour and go through downtown Naperville. The...

A pregnant mother was traveling with her child from Indiana to Illinois. Her destination was a health center in Flossmoor. Once there, she realized she was too far long for what the health center offered. At...

This month was Suicide Prevention Month. During this time, COD hosted Burpees, BBQ, and Mental Health, an event centered around promoting the mental health and physical well-being of all students, including...

This past week was Chaparral Week which hosted events for COD students. Among the events was a volunteering event hosted by Phil's Friends. At it, students gathered to make blankets for chronically ill...

COD-bound high school students were shut in by the pandemic while in high school and are now recovering from years of taking online courses. Mia Cheaure is one of those students. Cheaure is a first-year...