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The Orion

Chico State's independent student newspaper

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Chico State's independent student newspaper

The Orion

Ke Huy Quan as Marvin Gable in Love Hurts, directed by Jonathan Eusebio. © Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Nothing hurts as much as watching “Love Hurts”

Chris Hutton, Entertainment and Features Editor
February 11, 2025

The Universal Pictures film “Love Hurts,” comes in time for Valentine’s Day to remind us all that love hurts. The season of love has arrived and Hollywood is making its effort to rake in that holiday...

Photo taken by Chris Hutton on Jan. 25

The terrifying reminder of our place in ‘Presence’

Chris Hutton, Entertainment and Features Editor
January 29, 2025

“Presence” captures the unfiltered rawness of family life through the point-of-view of a ghost in an exceptionally experimental way. As a family settles into their new house, secrets and tensions are...

Tom Hardy plays Eddie Brock, a journalist turned anti-hero when he gets infected by a Symbiote. Photo Courtesy of Sony Pictures.

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ more like ‘Venom: The Last Time I will See a Venom Movie’

Chris Hutton, Entertainment Reporter
November 7, 2024

“Venom: The Last Dance” may be the final Venom movie, but it isn’t the last movie we will see in this franchise – which either makes me sad or angry. I don’t know or want to think about that....

Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s "Conclave," a Focus Features release. Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved. © 2024 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

‘Conclave’ shakes the very nature of the Catholic Church

Chris Hutton, Entertainment Reporter
November 2, 2024

“Conclave” plays like poetry; its vivid and striking imagery draws viewers in and its slow-burning suspenseful plot keeps them enveloped in the world put on hold after the pope passes in his sleep.  Directed...

Egg yolk on blue surface. Photo by Ron Lach, from Pexels

‘The Substance’ is a body-horror like no other

Chris Hutton, Entertainment Reporter
October 1, 2024

The gut-wrenching examination of societal pressures on women in the film “The Substance” is a blunt middle finger to male-influenced society and the domineering patriarchal hierarchy in entertainment.  Written...

Chihiro and the spirit No-Face make a journey in "Spirited Away." Image from IMDB.

Miyazaki film showings bring awareness of anime to Chico

Natalie Hanson and Ulises Duenas
October 7, 2018

Got any plans for Halloween yet? If you're fresh out of ideas, since Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, "Spirited Away" is playing at your local movie theater that night.If you haven't been to one...

Cinemark Tinseltown in Chico instilled its new bag policy on Thursday. Photo credit: Josh Cozine

Cinemark bans large bags from movie theatres as security precaution

Josh Cozine
February 22, 2018

As of Thursday, large bags are no longer allowed inside Chico’s Cinemark 14 Tinseltown theater.The change comes as an effort to “enhance the safety and security of our guests and employees,”...

Ben Affleck portrays protagonist Nick Dunne, whose wife goes missing just before the couple's fifth anniversary. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox.

Study Break: ‘Gone Girl’ review

Jake Hutchison
October 4, 2014
"Gone Girl," released Friday, is demented, creepy and impossible for viewers to tear their eyes from. The film has the potential to completely re-vamp the suspense drama.