This year, when essays and exams start to pile up, the Wilfrid Laurier University Rotaract has a good idea to help students relax — watching a movie in the pool. The WLU Rotaract is Laurier’s chapter of Rotaract, the community service club that is the post-secondary branch of the organization Rotary International. The club held an untraditional fundraiser this past […]
Watching the trailers for the now critically acclaimed film Get Out had me inexplicably hopeful. I had no clue what this film would deliver, but as an unabashed lover of horror movies with a twist, I was thoroughly impressed with both the execution of the movie genre itself, and the all-too-relevant meaning threaded throughout. This expertly crafted and almost unexplainable […]
It’s not every day you walk into a movie theatre to be greeted with a “Welcome to the Fire Swamp, watch out for the R.O.U.S.’s, but I don’t believe they exist.” On Thursday, Princess Cinemas and the “folkes” from the Royal Medieval Faire hosted a The Princess Bride quote-along (think sing-along with subtitles instead of song lyrics). They gave away […]
Last Thursday saw the return of the Laurier Film series ongoing examination of Indigenous cinema with the documentary of Southern Alberta’s hidden Blackfoot history with Chris Tsiung’s Elder in the Making. In past years, the themes of the film series have been notable for their enjoyable diversity, ranging from topics such as world animation to contemporary queer cinema to memory […]
A while ago, while wandering the bookstore, I noticed a copy of the novel Nocturnal Animals with a large, obstructing, eye-catching sticker on the cover, proudly announcing “Now a Major Motion Picture!” This is a common practice for the sake of sales when these developments of adaptation occur, but then I noticed at the bottom of the cover the disclaimer […]
Disney has been releasing rags-to-riches tales since the dawn of time, though its latest addition, Queen of Katwe, is a far cry from the Cinderella of our youth. While the film opens to a scene of the heroine, Phiona, smartly dressed as she enters a chess tournament, the film quickly rewinds years earlier to Katwe, an area in the Ugandan […]
I had been waiting three long years for this moment. This time, I traded my Hogwarts robes for an orange vest and a black bowtie. It was finally the premiere of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I was excited, but I was skeptical. As an executive member of the Wilfrid Laurier University Harry Potter Alliance, I was really […]
Passing by numerous coloured tapestries inscribed with scriptures of the Dharma, eighty or so people amassed together in the hall of the Emmanuel United Church, took their seats with the chime of a traditional Tibetan Singing Bowl and watched stories of faith, trials, healing, teaching and loss. The 13th Annual Waterloo Buddhist Film festival, put on by the volunteers of […]
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is an internationally acclaimed film festival dedicated to showcasing champion films of various genres from all over the world. With the festival wrapping up the week of the 18th TIFF has a reputation for premiering some of the world’s best films. There will certainly be hundreds of highly anticipated and phenomenal films, prominent directors […]
Among the most well received films released in 2015, standing next to giants like The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road, was a little independent stop-motion animation called Anomalisa. This sombre love story was the latest offering from writer-director Charlie Kaufman whose previous success with bizarre screenplays for Being John Malkovich and Adaptation made him a household name in independent […]
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