Film Review
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3 Movies To Change Up Your Holiday Viewing List
It’s that time of year again when people are pulling out boxes with Christmas ornaments and fairy lights, and getting into the spirit of the…
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Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs in Film: Here to Help, or Out to Kill?
It’s a normal day. You’re walking down Queen Street West and pass a stranger. You smile. They don’t smile back. And then you say to…
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Desperate for more Desolation: A Film Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
When Smaug’s giant reptilian eye slowly slid open and his gravelly growl vibrate through the theatre in the final seconds of The Hobbit: An Unexpected…
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Castle in the Sky: Entering Miyazaki’s World With Guillermo del Toro @ TIFF Bell Lightbox
The first time I watched Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky I was twelve and sitting in my basement alone. I had been watching Miyazaki movies…
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Antiquity to Dystopia: Genre-Crossing Symbolism in Lang’s Metropolis
Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic, Metropolis, depicts a dystopian future in which an oppressed class of workers is forced to live underground by the wealthy elite…
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A Most Unexpectedly Happy Journey: A Ringer’s Quest to See The Hobbit
From 2001-2003, silver screens across the globe became lenses into another world: Middle Earth. This wasn’t the first time a speculative film attracted such widespread…
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Anti-heroes & Undead heroes: A review of Cargo
When it comes to monsters and the Halloween tradition, what’s more classic than the good ol’ zombie? Everywhere you turn they’re found bashing in skulls…
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