Movies
Hot-take: Shrek is anti-ogre
June 25, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor Let’s get this out of the swamp: Shrek is not the ogre ally you think he is. Sure, he’s an ogre. Sure, he lives in a swamp, eats eyeballs like olives, and has a roar that can clear out an entire Disney knock-off kingdom. But let’s not confuse identity with ideology. I am here to make a bold, probably an obvious claim: Shrek hates ogres, including himself, especially himself. You may be thinking, “But wait! Shrek taught us it’s OK to be different, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that ogres…
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Peliplat and the patchwork future of film discourse
June 15, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Once, reviews were handed down from the altars of broadsheets and bylines. Today, film opinions are filtered by algorithms, taking the form of Letterboxd one-liners, TikTok edits, Reddit debates, and YouTube video essays. In this…
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I don’t know how to feel about Kung Fu Panda 4
May 16, 2024By: Jin Song, Peak Associate It’s hard to understate the impact of Kung Fu Panda (2008) on pre-teen me, along with many others. The scene revealing the truth behind the secret ingredient is something I still think about to this…
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A spoilers-free review of The Inventor
May 10, 2024By: Jin Song, SFU Student Sometimes, you watch a movie and you can feel how much fun the creators had making it. The Inventor is one of these movies. This movie follows Leonardo da Vinci, the titular inventor, and his…
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Black excellence in sports as told through media
February 15, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Content warning: anti-Black racism and enslavement. Films and Documentaries Remember the Titans (2000) Where to watch: Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ Based on a true story in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, Black football coach…
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Standout films released this fall
December 7, 2022By: Kiara Co, SFU Student Tar directed by Todd Field [caption id="attachment_124114" align="alignnone" width="243"] PHOTO: IMDb[/caption] This film is about the world-famous classical music composer and conductor Lydia Tar. She’s known to be the first ever woman to chief conduct…
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The Oscars need to stop pandering to the masses
March 23, 2022By: Emma Best, Peak Associate For 93 years, the Oscars have honoured the art and craft of filmmaking, recognizing the year’s best films. They’ve made changes to evolve alongside the developing film industry: select categories were once divided by colour and…
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Oscar Watch 2022
March 22, 2022By: Sara Brinkac, Humour Editor Oscar night is approaching and glamour is in the air! While it may be an exciting time for film buffs and movie lovers alike, you may feel a little lost on which films to check out…
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Movies are better without the 3D
January 20, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate Imagine this: you’re going to see a movie that you’ve been looking forward to. You have your tickets paid and your seats reserved. As you walk to the theatre, your excitement growing by the step,…
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Top Ten movies “cinephiles” can namedrop to assert their dominance over casual film viewers
May 24, 2021By: Sara Brinkac, SFU Student The Shawshank Redemption (Dir. Frank Darabont, 1994) If you’ve got a heartbeat, you like The Shawshank Redemption. Name-dropping this film in conversation not only shows people that you can recognize a good story, but that…
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