En 7 de marzo, Venezuela tuvo una falla en la red eléctrica dejando gran parte del país sin luz Las fallas origino en la hidroeléctrica del Guri dejando sin corriente a Caracas y 22 Estados. Casi 20 horas del incidente, buena parte seguía sumida en el colapso. La vista de Caracas era noche la de una ciudad espectral. Solo los...

Student journalists from The Breeze received the exciting opportunity to spend two days in Los Angeles visiting newsgroups and participating in different learning experiences. On the first day of the trip, twelve students packed into two Chaffey vans and headed off to the first stop on the large itinerary list: YouTube Space LA. We arrived unannounced, so it came as...

he film is a prequel to the spin-off to “The Conjuring” telling the origin of “Annabelle,” again. When this film was announced I wasn’t excited. The first film was extremely horrible, it had a badly written story and incredibly stupid characters, especially compared to “The Conjuring” (a great film), but when David F. Sandberg (“Lights Out”) was brought into direct...

As the global order frays at the ends, and cosmic inertia extends the edges of an indifferent universe, the transience of existence lures the armor of nihilism. But Rick, the belching alcoholic, genius, whose character embodies a Kierkegaardian anxiety, the bodily pleasures of Camus and the rebelliousness of Sartre, returns for a long-awaited third season to break the fourth wall,...

In an age of piracy, interconnectivity and technological advances, one would think that the casting for the live-action Hollywood adaptation of cyberpunk anime film "Ghost in the Shell" would adhere to the source materials themes regarding gender and identity—at least on a basic level of translation. Nope, not Hollywood. They know better. Early last year, Dreamworks finally announced that the...

The 2.3 million that we as a nation incarcerate has become a defining quality of this nation of ours. The US prison system costs taxpayers more than 80 billion dollars a year, a sum that eclipses the gross domestic product of more than 125 countries. Here in California the CDCR budget is ever-increasing, now over 12 billion dollars a year,...

2015 was a record-year for cinema. Not only did certain titles eviscerate box-office and weekend numbers, but the year also brought some shining examples in films that comment, inform, and improve the medium on artistic, technical and conceptual levels. 2015 looked into the past to bring cinema into the future in exciting ways. Below are a selection of the strongest...

Summer 2016 was a dark time for movies. The big superhero films that audiences now expect featured heroes and characters fighting amongst themselves, destroying their legacy in addition to major landmarks. Fandom showed it's ugly face during the "Ghostbusters" reboot controversy, flooding creators — especially the lead actors —and critics with remarks of racism, bigotry, misogyny and flat-out sexism. There...

Doing a sequel/reboot of the 1999 lightning in the bottle "The Blair Witch Project" for 2016 feels especially odd. More than half a decade has passed since the peak of found-footage horror films (e.g. "Cloverfield," "R. E. C.," and the mega-successful "Paranormal Activity" series)—a genre that quickly tired as fast as horror reboots did in the late aughts. Despite all...