To See or Not to See: The 400 Blows and the beauty it gives backThe 400 Blows 5/5 François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) is not a film for those just getting home from a night of debauchery; if you’re reading this while you sip gingerly on a cup of coffee, I advise that you turn to the hangover’s best friend, Netflix. This isn’t a film for a casual […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: An end to the foxes?A couple of issues ago, I wrote about former NBA player Rick Fox and his entry into the e-sports scene. Since then, his team Echo Fox has had some ups and downs in its play in all the different games they partake in. Most noticeably, the League of Legends branch of the team has been […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Of Dwarfs and princes“Human beings need flattery; otherwise they do not fulfill their purpose, not even in their own eyes,” said Piccoline, a 26-inch-tall dwarf who is the strange and misanthropic anti-hero of Pär Lagerkvist’s 1944 novel The Dwarf. Lagerkvist—who was a Swedish poet, novelist, and playwright in the first half of the 20th century—won the Nobel Prize […] Continue Reading |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Indigenous realityLiving as an indigenous person today is seemingly not so bad for most people, but it isn’t as great as everyone thinks for every person. We all have variable experiences. It is not possible to just put someone in an indigenous box—you don’t have an indigenous experience; you have a human experience. There are opportunities […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: Over the moon for MoonstruckMoonstruck 4.5/5 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: no other genre of film has more potential to be transcendental than the rom-com, which is why it’s also so easy for rom-coms to go wildly and disastrously astray. Moonstruck (1987) lands itself a spot among the transcendental; it’s in the upper echelon of […] Continue Reading |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Why oh why, oh Canada?While parades unfold, barbecues blaze, and fireworks launch in celebration of Canada Day, I find it more important than ever to critically engage with Canadian identity. The reality is that we are a diverse country with a vast array of identities, knit together on contiguous land yet apart because of our different access to power: […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Something new with OverwatchI’ve been playing a lot of the new game Overwatch. As a first-person shooter with aspects of LoL, Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty thrown in, it’s honestly a good game. (I didn’t think I would ever be saying that, as I despise Blizzard, the game company that made Overwatch, due to their policies, […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Beating the tin drum with Günter Grass“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred,” said Günter Grass, a German novelist and political activist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 and is best known for his sweeping novel The Tin Drum. The novel tells the story of World War II from the perspective of Oscar Matzerath, a dwarf who willfully stopped […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: The hi-fi humanity of High FidelityHigh Fidelity 5/5 High Fidelity (2000) is a rom-com in all the right ways. It’s a movie that knows how people work and what motivates them; it knows that people aren’t perfect, and it works with that fact. The humour in the film is paramount, and it’s not the kind that you’ll find in most […] Continue Reading |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: The story of the great floodGood afternoon, morning. Evening, hello. Today I would like to share with you the WSANEC flood story. It is the story of our territory, our nation’s experience with the great flood. Many, many years ago, we lived with, shall we say, extravagance. We had plenty of food—that is great wealth, to be fed with lots […] Continue Reading |
