![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
No, It Isn’t Romantic
Why I Didn’t Like Rebel Wilson’s New Movie
I walked into the movie with high expectations and I was disappointed.
February 20, 2019
Let me get right to the point, “Isn’t it Romantic” was an okay movie. It’s wasn’t bad, but there wasn’t anything that I truly loved. There are some spoilers below, so if you want to see the film, I wouldn’t read this yet.
The movie is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, who is the director of the “Final Girls” movie as well. It stars Rebel Wilson (Natalie), an architect who doesn’t believe in love, Adam Devine (Josh), Natalie’s best friend, Liam Hemsworth (Blake), a client for the company Natalie works for and Priyanka Chopra (Isabella), a yoga ambassador and swimsuit model.
As mentioned, Natalie doesn’t believe in love, and especially hates cliché romantic comedies. After an altercation in the subway, she ends up in the hospital and suddenly wakes up in a romantic comedy universe.
Now, I think I would have enjoyed the movie if there was truly something unique about it. When Natalie rants to her assistant Whitney (Betty Gilpin) earlier in the movie, she points out every single cliché in rom-coms. To my disappointment, everything she mentioned happens later in the movie, in her rom-com universe. There were no surprises, and to be honest, the plot was plain and boring. I understand that the whole point of the movie was to showcase the clichés, but I feel that they could have included other plot elements to make the movie interesting. Also, there’s a parking garage analogy that related to her situation of self-doubt and not loving herself like she should, but to me, it was forced.
Although it wasn’t my favorite movie, I did like some parts of it. I liked the comedy; it was very much Wilson’s style of comedy, similar to her character in “Pitch Perfect.” I also liked the musical numbers, and my favorite one was the karaoke to “Dance with Somebody.” The lighting, background music and different cinematography styles and techniques used were really well done.
The movie runtime is 88 minutes and is rated PG-13, with minor references of drug use and sexual references. You can see it at AMC, Cinemark, Alamo Drafthouse and other local theaters.
My rating is two out of five rom-coms.
