Academy Awards
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This year’s Oscars proved more memorable than the last
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The second least watched Oscars ceremony was held this past weekend. On the evening of March 27, Hollywood’s most esteemed stars gathered at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to honour this year’s greatest films. Last year’s Oscars earned the title of the worst ceremony in Academy history, viewership wise. The low viewership of the…
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The return of the biggest night in hollywood
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The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles is being prepared as we speak. After a full year without a proper ceremony, the Academy Awards is planning for a full-fledged return this March. Better known as the Oscars, this prestigious ceremony aims to celebrate the greatest films released during the previous year. The event is widely referred…
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Emma Stone’s Oscar comment proves she isn’t an intersectional feminist
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Award show season this year have been rife with political messages such as #TimesUp. Female presenters have been standing up for the lack of equal gender representation in the gender neutral categories, such as best director. At the 2018 Golden Globes, Natalie Portman used her opportunity presenting the best director award to call out the…
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Lady Bird flutters across the big screen
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I cried, I laughed and I wanted to watch it 10 more times afterwards — those feelings could only be attained in their entirety by watching Greta Gerwig’s film, Lady Bird. Before going to Princess Cinemas on Monday night, I had already heard great things about the indie film, and director Greta Gerwig. However, I…
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Art isn’t all about awards
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It’s the recognition we don’t get that makes us crave it more, but it’s the recognition we do get that inflates our egos. I suppose there really is no way to come out on top, even when you do. Our culture revolves around a constant need to rate things and know who’s the best and…
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Casting a spotlight on Moonlight
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The 2017 Oscar race is, unfortunately, with incredible historical precedent. The arguable frontrunner for Best Picture, La La Land, takes the concept of jazz, a black-originated and still predominately black form of art and both whitewashes and romanticizes it. It’s fitting that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, a bildungsroman with an entirely black cast, will likely lose…
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Laurier’s Response to Donald Trump’s Travel ban
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On Jan. 27, President Trump issued an executive order restricting travel into the United States for individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days. Ensuing the announcement, Universities Canada released a statement in response to the U.S. executive order to reiterate their commitment to providing communities that are diverse and inclusive to all: “Canada’s universities…
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