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Crazy Rich Asians isn’t just crazy good — it’s crazy spectacular
September 1, 2018There is so much to say about a movie as groundbreaking as Crazy Rich Asians: Things like “representation is so important,” or “it’s okay one movie can’t represent an entire continent,” or even, “was Awkwafina’s accent kind of racist?” But one image of the movie that remains visceral in my mind is one that wasn’t even on the screen. It was an image I saw as the credits rolled onscreen — while other moviegoers left their seats, a select few stayed. Namely, an Asian kid sitting alone wiping tears from his eyes while he watched the name of…
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At the PNE Amphitheatre
July 6, 2018Ambiance: B+ I’m at the PNE Amphitheatre for a two-day rap and hip-hop concert called Breakout Festival. While most of us can agree that there is nothing better than an outdoor concert on a warm summer evening, the weather in…
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Incredibles 2 makes for an incredible sequel
June 29, 2018In 2004, Walt Disney Pictures released a superhero family film that had an impact on the animation world, but it wasn’t the characters’ abnormalities that garnered the film such astounding critical and commercial success. Rather, it was the way the…
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Cheesy to gritty: the turning point for Batman’s character
June 19, 2018In February 1986, DC Comics began publishing Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue comic mini-series by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley. By the 1980s, people were used to seeing Batman as a source of cheesy one-liners and…
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Actor’s Spotlight: Timothée Chalamet
June 14, 2018You might vaguely remember him playing Matthew McConaughey’s son in Interstellar (2014), or his appearance in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age film, Lady Bird (2017). But this year, after being the youngest Best Actor Oscar-nominee in almost 80 years at 22…
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Album versus Album: Brockhampton
June 13, 2018All-American Trash (2016) Think more Boyz II Men, less OFWGKTA. All-American Trash was Brockhampton’s first mixtape and it’s clear they hadn’t cemented their recognizable sound. The mixtape is overall slower, more seductive, and has an edge of blues with bouts…
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Bringing colour and community to SFU Burnaby
June 12, 2018SFU Colour is a club dedicated to enhancing physical spaces with art and colour on Burnaby campus. Currently consisting of three club executives, it was launched as a club in January 2018, but has been running as an initiative since…
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Deadpool 2 is still dead funny
June 9, 2018Warning: this article contains spoilers. For years, Ryan Reynolds tirelessly worked to bring beloved Marvel superhero Deadpool to the big screen. After all his persistence, Deadpool hit theatres in February 2016, and the movie was a massive hit — for…
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The true story behind That Dragon, Cancer makes it more than a game
June 6, 2018That Dragon, Cancer is a game created by two parents, Amy and Ryan Green, to eulogize the life of their son Joel, who was diagnosed with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) at just one year old. Joel went through extensive…
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Q&A with SFU stand-up comedian Sam Gorick
June 3, 2018Sam Gorick, a fourth-year communications student, does stand-up comedy as a hobby. The following is our conversation with him. The Peak: How did you get into stand-up? Sam Gorick: It was a dare. I was dared by a guy, I…
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