‘One Piece’ season two sails straight to Netflix’s top ten
By Katlynn Rossignol
Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat crew finally enter the Grand Line, where the fabled pirate treasure, the One Piece, is said to be hidden. The voyage is treacherous, and the Straw Hat pirates must face off against old foes and the deadly assassin group Baroque Works. Only by standing together can the crew sail through the rough seas and achieve their dreams.
The production crew behind the live-action “One Piece” understands what it means to pay homage to the ...
Bruno Mars does not need to ‘Risk It All’ in his newest album, ‘The Romantic.’
By Eva Tweeten
Bruno Mars is finally back, releasing his album ‘The Romantic’ ten years after the award-winning ‘24k Magic.’ Short and sweet, ‘The Romantic’ is composed of 9 songs with a total runtime of just over 30 minutes. This is the perfect length, as each song is carefully crafted and unique, yet not one feels out of place among the rest.
The album opens with “Risk It All,” a nostalgic-sounding piece with forgettable lyrics but a beautiful melody. At the heart of ...
‘Paul McCartney: Man on the Run’ is unique and intriguing
By Amelia Morris
Paul McCartney, known best as a member of the Beatles, has had a successful music career after the band parted ways. This documentary follows McCartney as he continues to make music, both in bands and as a solo act.
The documentary, “Man on the Run,” concentrates on what came after the Beatles broke up, honing in on McCartney’s career in the 1970s. The story is crafted only from old footage of events that are narrated purely by interviews, with McCartney himself ...
‘Hoppers’ rings in spring
By Amelia Morris
“Hoppers,” the latest edition to Pixar’s expansive library, is a typical save the nature storyline with a sci-fi twist. As usual Pixar delivers heart warming stories with a real world theme and application.
“Hoppers” takes place in the town of Beaverton, a city surrounded by nature. The mayor, Jerry, has decided to build a beltway right smack dab in the middle of Beaverton’s glade - to secure his reelection, while also destroying the ecosystem.
Mabel ...
‘The Bluff’ is a moderately entertaining take on pirate movies
By Carly Shaner
If you were an ex-pirate captain, now mother, and someone came to your island and sent men to kill you, how would you respond? By driving a knife into one of their necks? In front of your children?
It’s 1846, and real pirates are a dying breed in the Caribbean. When pirate Captain Francisco Connor (played by Karl Urban) finds some of his gold on a small merchant ship, Connor follows the ship’s captain to his home island in search of the man’s wife, Ercell (Priyanka ...
Stinger adds three unidentifiable yellow jackets to his cohort
By Aubrie Rickett
Stinger isn’t the only yellow jacket on Cedarville’s campus operating under disguise. Somewhere, three mysterious creatures known as “The Babylon Yellow Jacket,” “The Other Babylon Yellow Jacket” and “The Real Babylon Yellow Jacket” observe the activities of Cedarville’s campus and subject unsuspecting professors and students to satire on their website, The Babylon Yellow Jacket.
The exact nature of these writers is unknown, as they take extreme ...
‘I Can Only Imagine 2’ is a testament to the power of song
By Josh Ball
For the last 150 years, Christians have sung the words “whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say ‘it is well, it is well with my soul.’” Horatio Spafford’s words remain as one of the most beautifully poetic Christian hymns.
After the success of “I Can Only Imagine,” the band MercyMe was struggling to write a hit. Bart Millard (John Michael Finley) was on tour when his son collapsed. A decade later, Sam Millard (Sammy Dell) struggles to connect with his ...
‘How to Make a Killing’ violently addresses key themes of money, greed and the soul
By Gabriel Payne
What would you do for twenty-eight billion dollars? Or rather, what wouldn’t you do? Is there any length that is too far to go for a life-altering, generationally impacting amount of money? Some people would lie to achieve such wealth. Some would cheat. Some would steal. Some would even kill seven of their distant family members.
At least, Becket Redfellow would. Ever since he was a child, Becket was told of the famed Redfellow family fortune that he was in line ...
The Cedars 2025 awards of the century presented by Arts and Entertainment
By Danielle Cherry and the A&E writers
Everyone loves a good award. As the Oscars approach and TV-shows and movies get their chance to win recognition, Arts and Entertainment at Cedars was excited to highlight the top movies we reviewed this season.
While the categories we walked through are less drastic than the Oscars, our take was both fun and only slightly biased. Arts and Entertainment covers a wide variety of shows and movies - ranging from some of the worst ...
Aiden Hibbard’s solo win leads to a fourth place finish for the Jackets
By Evan Martens
With the spring season underway, the men’s golf team took a trip down to Lexington, North Carolina, to play at Sapona Golf Club, where they finished fourth, shooting +31, after a tough start to round one.
Coming into the tournament, Cedarville knew it would be challenging with top players from schools such as High Point, UMass, Montana State Billings, and finally the 52nd and 59th nationally-ranked players from Missouri University of Science and Tech.
Round one was a ...
