In what was one of the more anticipated releases this year, "Pacific Rim: Uprising" was unleashed to audiences around the world. While visually bombastic, "Pacific Rim: Uprising" entertainingly captures the fun of Guillermo Del Toro's original 2013 action flick, but fails overall to tell a compelling story and joins the ever growing list of inferior sequels. This is because the...

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Bruno Mars, the famous and acclaimed American pop music icon, has recently been accused of cultural appropriation by the online community. The debate started when an online activist accused Mars of using music that has been associated with African-American culture. This, of course, is absurd. Mars is simply expressing himself in his own way. This kind of reaction shows that...

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Student Trustee candidates as well as the Vice President candidate participated in the 2018 Associated Students of Cerritos College Presidential and Student Trustee Forum. The candidates promoted what their plans would be if elected. There are a total of six student trustee candidates, with only five showing up to the Presidential and Student Trustee Forum. The President and Vice President...

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Reboots seem to be all the rage in Hollywood today. The newest one coming out of tinsle town this week is Roar Uthaug's "Tomb Raider." Uthaug gives audiences a reasonably entertaining movie. The Tomb Raider franchise that gave way to this film started with video games in the late 1990's. In the early 2000's, Angelina Jolie stared in a movie...

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Albert Hammond Jr., lead guitarist of the Strokes, played an unforgettable show at The Observatory in Santa Ana on the eve of his newly released album, "Francis Trouble" on March 8. Playing at the Observatory, a small and intimate venue for the third time, Hammond Jr. played with more soul and enthusiasm than usual, making this one of his most...

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Disclosure: for those of you that haven't watched the all-telling trailer nor have read the book, this review has potential spoilers. The cookie-cutter rom-com that is "Love, Simon" is the kind of representation that the queer community has been asking for from mainstream Hollywood. As a generation, we’re used to seeing heterosexual couples in their teens experience a story we...

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Disney's "A Wrinkle In Time" premiered over the weekend to audiences around the world, but it may not meet the standards we have come to expect from the major studio. Directed by Ava DuVernay, "A Wrinkle In Time," while a sincere attempt at modern adaptation of the acclaimed and classic novel, did not live up to its source material. The...

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The Cerritos College men’s basketball team’s season wraps up in the CCCAA State Tournament Final Four, with an 83-89 loss to the No. 1 ranked team in the state, the City College of San Francisco on Saturday. The game started off on a good note for the Falcons, sophomore guard Keshaun Mack (No.14) was able to get his hands on...

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Club leaders and members gathered together to compete with one another for cash prizes and victory as Cerritos College held The Falcon Games for the fifth year, March 5-7. The three-day competition was themed after the Star Wars franchise -- specifically the fifth "episode" of the series, "The Empire Strikes Back." For the students involved the games have a higher...

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The Cerritos College men’s basketball team advance to the top four Community College’s in the state—with an 83-77 win over Yuba College in the CCCAA State Tournament Elite Eight on Friday. However, one of the biggest storylines of the game happened with about four minutes remaining in the second half, with the Falcons leading by only one basket—Jason Carter (No....

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