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What Should the Grand Theft Auto VI Story Look Like? - Emertainment MonthlyChester Deorocki ‘26 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer / Webmaster On Monday, December 4th, highly praised video game development studio Rockstar Games released the first trailer for their heavily awaited, up-and-coming project, Grand Theft Auto VI. Grand Theft Auto VI, otherwise known as “GTA 6,” is the sequel to perhaps the most successful game of …

Travis Scott’s UTOPIA vs. Drake’s For All The Dogs - Emertainment MonthlyChester Deorocki ‘26 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer & Webmaster 2023 has been an excellent year for music all around, especially in the rap and hip hop scene. Travis Scott released his highly anticipated album, UTOPIA, and Drake released his biggest solo project since 2021, For All The Dogs. Although it’s been a few months …

A ★★★½ review of Warfare (2025)There's a lot to unpack from Warfare but at the same time I'm still putting together exactly how I feel from it. To put it straight Warfare is an hour and a half thrill ride, but the kind you're constantly clutching your seat through and asking yourself "is my heart really beating this fast?" Warfare really holds no punches in telling a very contained story about this group of soldiers on their fateful day. The validity for accuracy in war movies today really depends on the lengths they go to stick to realism while also sharing the message it intends

A ★★★★★ review of The Zone of Interest (2023)Perspective is one of the most important aspects to connect viewers with the characters on screen. Zone of Interest has one of, if not the most unique and effective approaches to perspective I've ever seen. There are no closeups in this movie. Besides a few medium shots, every single shot in the film is a wide or long shot, where the characters in focus full bodies are completely visible. The film is through the perspective of Nazis, but it doesn't let you identify with them. By restricting how close we as viewers get to the characters, the film blocks us

A ★★★★½ review of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)Martin Scorsese's career has been defined by his large filmography of heavy drama, true crime, and American history. But never before has he been able to combine them all in a way that this film does. Killers of the Flower Moon is a true achievement for Scorsese, proving that the growing length of his films doesn't equal to any drop in quality, as he adapts the tragic story of the Osage murders into a highly intriguing three-and-a-half hour film. Although the movie is extremely long, I never found myself explicitly bored, or hoping for the credits to start rolling. The

A ★★★★★ review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999)Mesmerizing, spine-tingling, and heart wrenching- Kubrick captures every feeling one might have in a state of unchecked liminality. Tom Cruise is as effortlessly charismatic as he is vulnerable, making the perfect vessel for us as an audience to step into, as his character spirals down into an unimaginable journey. This being Kubrick's final film that he reportedly finished whilst on his deathbed is an almost chilling send off when you consider what type of future this film would grow a legacy in. The content of this plot, which Kubrick adapted from a story written a hundred years ago, becomes more

A ★★★★★ review of The Matrix (1999)The Matrix genuinely might be the greatest movie ever made. Well, that's subjective, but there is no world where it isn't among one of the most influential ever to be made. Seeing the cinematography was by Bill Pope made so much sense, considering the heavy similarities to this movies cinematography and Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. Seeing this also got me thinking how The Matrix may have actually changed the "chosen one" genre. Stories where a hero is proclaimed the "chosen one" go back as long as humans have been creating stories. But in film, some of the biggest ones include Star

A ★★★★★ review of Dune: Part Two (2024)Movie sequels have always been one of my favorite aspects about the movie business because of what they mean for the filmmaker and the scale of their storytelling. Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Aliens, The Dark Knight, The Godfather Part II; all bigger budget, bigger scale versions of their predecessor that have essentially been deemed just as good, and if not better than the original. But then there's Dune: Part Two. I liked Dune (2021), I saw it twice in theaters, and overall had only positive things to say about it. But, it didn't blow me away, or change my

A ★★★★★ review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)Seen in front of a live orchestra. There's nothing that hasn't already been said about this movie to further emphasize its status as a masterpiece, but I may as well try to add something new. Despite it not even being his own movie at all, Peter B. Parker really is the best take on Peter Parker and Spider-Man we've seen on screen. So far, every live-action version of Peter, even the ones with multiple sequels, have all more or less been trying to do the same thing, and be the best adaptation of that classic comic book Peter the world

A ★★★★½ review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

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