Christopher Nolan
The erasure of Black narratives persists
February 21, 2024By: Michelle Young, Opinions Editor Content warning: mentions of racism and enslavement. Perhaps we know Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks — but what else is known about how Black people shaped history in Canada and the US? There are many “forgotten” histories that feature the intersectional work of Black people. The quotation marks around “forgotten” are meant to question — forgotten by whom? There is so much history not taught by our institutions, and many people don’t know more solely because it wasn’t taught to them, or they didn’t look. Canadian Viola Desmond, for example, challenged racial segregation…
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“Tenet,” the failed saviour of cinema, is a convoluted mess
January 26, 2021By: Lester Leong, SFU Student Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced movie studios to delay their upcoming releases, Tenet was one of the most highly anticipated films of 2020. With the renowned success of Christopher Nolan’s filmography, many people were looking…
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Which prolific director should make a live-action version of your favourite Disney movie
March 23, 2015[caption id="attachment_1646" align="alignright" width="300"] Image by Rachelle Tjahyana[/caption] Earlier this month, Disney announced that Tim Burton had been tasked with bringing a live-action version of Dumbo to the silver screen. Perhaps even more surprising is how unsurprising the announcement is,…
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Interstellar is an epic study of evolutionary possibility
November 13, 2014The theory of evolution proposes that all of mankind developed through natural selection from a single-celled organism to the species we exist as today over the passing of millions of years. Should this be true, there are implications that run…
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