Although Canada has become a hotspot for film and television from a technical standpoint, it’s been slower in its tra…
Reimagining A Genre: The Orville versus Star Trek: Discovery
As we suffered through a drought of reruns over the summer, the only thing more exciting than the debut of a woman Do…
This Is What Life Looks Like
My prelude to watching Logan was a CBC news report on Emerson, Alberta where hundreds of asylum seekers from the Unit…
The Force Awakens From A Long Slumber And Reminds Us Why Star Wars Is Iconic Sci-Fi
For someone who’s been in the movie industry as long as J.J. Abrams, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that his ambit…
Challenge Accepted: Chris Shalom And J.S. Johnson Return With Android Night Punch
After winning the Royal Reel Award at the 2013 Canadian International Film Festival for their psycho-horror film Trut…
Shugendo Now
The philosophical practice of Shugendo finds its roots in many of the proto-religious paradigms that made up Japan pr…
“Le Diable Probablement”: The Dissatisfaction of Youth
There’s something deeply disturbing about the hopelessness one encounters in Robert Bresson’s 1977 film Le Diable Pro…
“Le Pond du Nord”: Rivette Questions Death, Authority, Life
Set in the birthplace of some of our modern conceptualizations of existentialism, Jacques Rivette’s 1981 hyper-real n…
“Somm”: The Hardest Test You’ve Never Heard Of
If you thought studying for your SATs was difficult, a new documentary by director Jason Wise called Somm will put th…
How Happy Became Homosexual and Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts
Language, like culture, is continually subject to a biological evolution – the result is often spontaneous, surprisin…
DC Introduces First Transgender Character
The world of superheroes has become a lot more progressive in the past decade as old biases and taboos have been shed…
A Profound and Perplexing Love Story
When you give a philosopher a camera, you have to expect a product that defies (or otherwise transfigures) convention…
