Film
Tomorrowland is a lighthearted apocalyptic film
May 25, 2015[caption id="attachment_2697" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios.[/caption] One thing I’ve never understood about people who love action movies is the thrill they get out of seeing skyscrapers, cities, and the world explode à la Michael Bay. Popular blockbusters like 2012, Godzilla, Man of Steel, and Avengers: Age of Ultron have played on our fears of environmental disaster, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Even the fantastic post-apocalyptic Mad Max: Fury Road plainly tells us to just settle for the broken, insidious world we have. We are more than comfortable with our inevitable demise: we have fully embraced it, to…
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Is there such a thing as a Good Kill?
May 19, 2015[caption id="attachment_2565" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo courtesy of IFC Films.[/caption] Someone playing Call of Duty or Halo presses the trigger, and bang, a character dies. But they’re not actually dead — they can respawn and get shot again, and again, and…
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Scientology is exposed in Going Clear
May 19, 2015[caption id="attachment_2568" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Jigsaw Productions.[/caption] Everyone has a need to find a sense of purpose in what can sometimes seem a meaningless world. Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, an exposé of…
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Muppet films and specials you may have forgotten about
May 19, 2015[caption id="attachment_2598" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Cultjer[/caption] With everybody’s favourite felted hooligans returning to television this fall on ABC — and a new trailer just released last week — we’re looking back at some of the Muppets’ wackiest adventures.…
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Avengers: The Age of Ultron is an entertaining blockbuster
May 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2443" align="alignright" width="955"] Photo courtesy of Rolling Stone.[/caption] Too often, you will hear the term ‘popcorn movie’ thrown around in a negative context. Sometimes you will hear ‘blockbuster’ uttered as if it’s poison, as if the mere idea of…
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SFU film students present short at DOXA
May 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2425" align="alignright" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora.[/caption] Many SFU students are strong, caring people who support each other’s success, so I wasn’t surprised to find plenty of folk from the School for Contemporary Arts on…
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Montage of Heck is an intimate look into Kurt Cobain’s short life
May 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2479" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Photo courtesy of Rolling Stone.[/caption] At the centre of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is not a mythical hero or a deplorable villain but a man and a young boy crying out for normality only to…
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Six films to see this summer
May 11, 2015Everyone lets themselves go in the summer. School is over, the sunshine is out, ice cream becomes a regular part of your daily diet. Maybe you don’t get as much work done, maybe you don’t use your time so efficiently,…
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Cinephilia: Inherent Vice is a convoluted tale of ’70s debauchery
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1984" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.[/caption] Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Inherent Vice is a labyrinth with no way out; the more you think about its plot and try to piece together all…
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An alien race clashes with humanity in Home
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1960" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Dreamworks Animation.[/caption] Tim Johnson’s Home is a computer animated science fiction-comedy film about an alien invasion with an interesting twist. Themes such as friendship, accepting differences, and finding a place of belonging are…
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