movie reviews
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GO Train Updates Service for Reading Week
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The GO Train service will be shifting its schedule to offer two-way service between Kitchener and Toronto during reading week on Feb. 17 and Feb. 25. This change comes to assist students in their travels both to and from their week on vacation as GO service to Toronto does not often take place over the…
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A review of “Jujutsu Kaisen 0”
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On March 19, I had the opportunity to see the prequel to the extremely popular series Jujutsu Kaisen. Titled Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the film takes place a year before the series itself and is directed by Seong-Hu Park and produced by TOHO Animation. The story follows Yuuta Okkotsu, a cursed high school student who has…
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“La Saga Gucci”: un héritage pour lequel il ne vaut pas la peine de tuer
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Traduit en français par Emilia Arseneault, Sofia Terpenka, et Maya Yourth. La Saga Gucci (House of Gucci) raconte la dramatique histoire vraie de la famille (tristement) célèbre Gucci et les événements qui ont provoqué le meurtre de l’héritier de la marque du même nom. Basé sur le roman The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story…
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Nous allons tous mourir, mais dis-nous plutôt quelque chose qu’on ignore: une critique de “Déni cosmique” (2021)
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Traduit en français par Anthony Fikry, Ethan Acheson et Kari Beesoon. « La destruction de la planète entière n’est pas censée d’être amusante quand même ». Cette phrase, prononcée par le personnage de Jennifer Lawrence dans le film à succès sur Netflix, est involontairement ironique. La comédie réalisée en 2021 par Adam McKay dépeint de…
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We’re all going to die, but tell us something we don’t know: a review of “Don’t Look Up”
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“Maybe the destruction of the entire planet isn’t supposed to be fun.” This line, said by Jennifer Lawrence’s character in the Netflix hit Don’t Look Up, is unintentionally ironic. Adam McKay’s 2021 comedy portrays the lack of effort to save Earth as humorous, offering viewers that plot and nothing more. As a result, McKay’s satire…
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Cemetery Man – A fabulous oddity
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Mostly comedy, partially horror, a little romance, and a dash of soft-core pornography; I truly have never seen a film quite like Dellamorte Dellamore (1994), or as it’s more widely known in North America, Cemetary Man. Odds are you haven’t heard of Cemetery Man. The only reason I did was because it appeared on my…
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“House of Gucci”: A legacy not worth killing for
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House of Gucci tells the dramatic true story of the (in)famous Gucci family and the events that triggered the murder of the heir to the Gucci label. Based on the novel The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden and directed by Ridley Scott, the film…
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Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” may be a signal to change the director needs
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It’s 1996 and a film came out called Bottle Rocket. The film itself was okay, a quirky romantic-comedy story with some off-beat and fun characters. You wouldn’t expect that kind of quality from the box office numbers though as it managed to only make back about a twelfth of what it cost to make the…
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“While We’re Young” balances layered and nuanced plot
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While We’re Young is the seventh film written by Brooklyn-born director Noah Baumbach—starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. The film tells the story of forty-something-year-old, childless couple Josh and Cornelia—played by Stiller and Watts—in New York, who have the course of their lives changed forever by artsy hipster mid-twenties’ couple Jamie…
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The 20th anniversary of these three classic films
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Well, 2020 is finally over. Thankfully, we somehow managed to make it to the end, which means we can all continue to progress back towards normality, and I can continue to rant and rave about semi-obscure films that not enough people know about. In 2021, many films will reach their 20th anniversary since release, so…
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