Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: Movie Review

Last weekend the highly anticipated movie adaptation of the Ransom Riggs bestselling novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, hit the screens. Tangled, whimsical, and absolutely peculiar, the film is quintessentially Burton-esque. The story follows Jake Portman’s (Asa Butterfield) journey into the looped world of  “peculiar” children with abilities beyond imagination. Whether it be exhaling bees,…

A Lily-white Hollywood – Not Just During Oscars Season

I have a bone to pick with the #Oscarssowhite movement that has taken social media by storm for the second year in a row. Imbalances in racial diversity shouldn’t only be noticed when all the nominees for an awards show are white. Though I’m appreciative of the media and Twitter users for finally getting the…

2015 Recap & Hopes for the New Year

{Source} You never really know what the New Year will bring until it’s December 31st and you’re trying to piece 12 months worth of memory. 2015, undoubtedly, was a year that flew right by. But that’s not without a laundry list of events we’d like to forget about or remember for the rest of our lives.…