A Romantic Snooze Fest | Review of ‘If I Stay’

By: Cynthia Ayala

If I Stay follows a young girl as she is caught between live and death.  But as the movie follows her inner journey and the events that follow, there is little developed to keep this movie afloat.
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An Exquisite Take on Connectivity: Review: “Cloud Atlas” – Emertainment Monthly

By: Cynthia Ayala ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer

Cloud Atlas is a stand-alone novel that shifts between timelines to bring together multiple genres Science Fiction, Drama, and Fantasy as it goes from the past to the future and back. Continue reading “An Exquisite Take on Connectivity: Review: “Cloud Atlas” – Emertainment Monthly”

Secrets, Secrets Hurt Someone | Cyn’s Book Review of Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)

By: Cynthia Ayala

Pretty Little Liars is already a hit show on the ABC Family network.  This is the novel that started it out.  What made me pick it up?  I honestly have no clue, but I loved it.  Read on to figure out what made this novel so captivating. Continue reading “Secrets, Secrets Hurt Someone | Cyn’s Book Review of Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)”

Disastrous doesn’t begin to cover it | Cyn’s Movie Review of Pompeii (2014 Film)

By: Cynthia Ayala Directed by: Paul W. S. Anderson Screenplay by: Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler & Michael Robert Johnson Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, Jared Harris, Sasha Roiz & Kiefer Sutherland Genre: Action, Drama Set in 79 A.D., ‘Pompeii’ tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race … Continue reading Disastrous doesn’t begin to cover it | Cyn’s Movie Review of Pompeii (2014 Film)