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Dreams are Made in the Trenches
In November, it’s hard to forget. Now I don’t mean your keys or your economics quiz; those still slip our minds with regularity. No, as…
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Crimson peak: A Gothic Romance
Ghosts are real, that much I know. Well, okay, I don’t know, but Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) can certainly tell you a thing or two…
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After Alice: Beyond the Rabbit Hole
How many characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland can you name off the top of your head? It’s alright if you can’t name them…
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Hannibal: What do you see?
Sight is the key to appreciating the design behind Bryan Fuller’s three seasons of Hannibal. Television is first and foremost a visual medium, and no…
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Not Your Usual Post-Apocalypse: The World of Stand Still Stay Silent
Ninety years later, everything is gone. Everything except Scandinavia, that is. Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are all that remain of the Known world,…
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Ex_Machina – I am become Death
Somewhere in the wilderness of Alaska there is a house, and inside that house are four people. At least one of these people is not…
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Passably Psychotic: A Review of Psycho-Pass
I have never committed a crime (well, I’m not counting that one time when my six-year-old self treated Bulk Barn as though it was a…
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What does Mars tell us in The Martian?
This post contains spoilers. Imagine this: you are stranded on a distant planet without water, food, internet access, your smartphone, or even other humans. What…
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Lilo & Stitch: it only gets better
Check out Part One of this two-part blog series here! Before we delve back into the serious stuff, let’s take a moment to admire the unique…
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OHANA Means Quality Film-Making
The recent addition of Lilo & Stitch to (Canadian) Netflix answers the call of a generation. As we enter the latter half of the 2010s, our cultural shift toward…
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