Karen Ostrander
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GRFF celebrates their seventh year
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Grand River Film Festival (GRFF), now in its seventh year, has one main aim: to give the Kitchener-Waterloo region more options than just Hollywood-esque films. “We like to show films that haven’t been shown in the [Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge] region to bring something new to our audiences,” said executive director Tamara Louks in an interview…
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Making its mark at Twin
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Last Thursday the Princess Twin Theater in Uptown Waterloo hosted the premiere of Watermark. The film is a look at the global narrative on arguably the world’s most precious commodity, water. Co-director Edward Burtynsky was on hand to introduce the film to a curious and enthusiastic audience. “Water is the most important resource on the…
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Born Ruffians show their raw talent
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The weather might have been dreary for most of Thursday October 17, but it certainty wasn’t humdrum for the Born Ruffians at Starlight. Coming from a strenuous tour itinerary that saw them play Hamilton the previous night, the band showed no signs of fatigue as they blazed through a crowd-pleased set around an hour in…
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The Weeknd hits his mark
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In a short two or three years, Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, has seen a rise to R&B fame that seems to be more unorthodox, organic and accidental with each turn he takes. From his mysterious trilogy of mixtapes, which were first launched in March of 2011, all the way to his recent…
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British Fancy a delight
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The Wilfrid Laurier Wind Orchestra played their first concert of the year to a full house this past Saturday at the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. While classical music could be sometimes stereotyped as being dull, the WLU Wind Orchestra’s performance was anything but. The pieces chosen for the performance and the instruments used in the…
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The ‘authentic’ concert-going experience
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This may come as a shock, but I’ve been to many concerts. I’ve covered a wide variety of genres—from rap to heavy metal. Fundamentally, the idea of a concert is always the same. It’s a gathering of a large number of people who crowd around a stage to see their favourite artist perform songs and…
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Joining film and community with Cin-E-merge
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Cin-E-merge WLU is tired of film studies students being unaware of the career options that they possess once they graduate with their degree. Cin-E-merge WLU is an educational outreach program that hopes to connect students from Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo (UW) and various high schools to film industry professionals in the Kitchener-Waterloo and…
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In review: Captain Phillips
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Perhaps best known for his work done with Matt Damon throughout the Jason Bourne trilogy, director Paul Greengrass has now joined forces with Tom Hanks to present audiences with Captain Phillips, a depiction of the real life events that happened in 2009 when Captain Richard Phillips’ United States cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked…
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Arts Bites
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Charlie Hunnam Gains Self Respect Back Charlie Hunnam, star of the popular television show Sons of Anarchy, has somehow escaped the furry handcuffs of the trainwreck-to-be Fifty Shades of Grey. According to various gossip websites, Hunnam reportedly had problems with the script content and the fact that he would only be making $125,000 for ruining…
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Bring back the brains
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What defines a scary movie? The wretched horrors of the afterlife? The risk factors involved? How about those ever-changing technological special effects that tend to scare people out of their seats? In present day, the ‘horror genre’ is loosely thrown out to moviegoers who want to get a scare from a ghost, alien or any…
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