Marco Ovies
Soundtracks for your major
August 30, 2019By: Kelly Chia, Nicole Magas, Lubaba Mahmud, Marco Ovies, Andrea Renney, and Winona Young There are several factors that can contribute to a student’s choice in major: eventual career prospects, passion for a subject, or pressure from family. Sometimes we’re happy with our decision, sometimes we regret it, sometimes we change our mind and pick a new major. And sometimes, we turn to music for guidance, inspiration, comfort, and validation when we’re making our academic choices. The Peak staff come from a variety of academic backgrounds, and we’ve curated playlists specific to our chosen majors to give you an idea of…
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Columbia StrEAT Festival’s top 10 must-visit food trucks
July 21, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Peak Associate The Columbia StrEAT Festival is happening again on July 27 from 4–10 p.m. It's the largest one-day food truck festival on the continent featuring over 100 different food trucks. In addition to that, there will…
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Top 5 free outdoor movie nights to attend this summer
July 9, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Peak Associate Every summer there are tons of free outdoor movie screenings, so it can be difficult, even overwhelming, to decide which one is worth your time. I’ve broken down my top five favourite outdoor movie events…
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Hollywood’s latest nostalgia film
May 27, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Peak Associate Within the first couple shots of the Pidgeot flying across the screen, I felt like a kid starting my own Pokémon adventure again. Seeing all these creatures I grew up with perfectly exist in the real…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 27-31
May 26, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Peak Associate, Winona Young, Head Staff Writer, and Alison Wick, Arts Editor Trottier Observatory Starry Nights If you ever wanted to learn more about space, look no further than Starry Nights at the SFU Trottier Observatory on…
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Roma is Alfonso Cuaron’s best film yet
March 21, 2019Written by: Marco Ovies Alfonso Cuarón delivers his most personal movie to date with Roma. The story revolves around Cleo (played by Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker, who helps Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in Roma,…
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Staying In: Final Space
February 18, 2019By: Marco Ovies Best for: Rick and Morty fans, sci-fi fanatics, heartfelt comedy lovers If you’re looking for your next animated comedy, look no further than Final Space. The cartoon follows Gary, an astronaut who is a prisoner…
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Album Reviews
February 10, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Geron Malbas, and Winona Young Heard It In A Past Life, Maggie Rogers Maggie Rogers got her start after a video of her performing impressed Pharrell. From there on, Rogers rightfully caught the attention of the alternative…
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Bird Box delivers a deeper message that you may have overlooked
January 19, 2019By: Marco Ovies, SFU Student At first glance, Netflix’s new original movie Bird Box may seem like your cookie-cutter suspense film, joining A Quiet Place and Don’t Breathe. With flat characters that never venture past their stereotypes, negative depictions of…
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is more than just another dystopian story
March 1, 2018By: Marco Ovies Now I know what you’re thinking, not another post-apocalypse story. But hear me out, The Road is not something you want to miss out on. Cormac McCarthy takes a seemingly overused plot and through his mastery of…
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