Author: Caitlin Abe Gokool
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Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson returned to the big screen in 2021 with his seemingly most divisive, and for some his most controversial film, Licorice Pizza. Following 25-year-old Alana and 15-year-old Gary, as their relationship grows over one year in the San Fernando Valley, the film has often been criticized for its portrayal of this age-gap relationship.…
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Battle of the Stream: Where To Stream Movies in Canada
With uproar last year surrounding changes to Netflix’s password sharing rules, as well as ongoing discussions on increasing streaming prices and streaming services offering lower cost subscription options with ads, it had me thinking about where I go to most to stream films in Canada. Below, I have provided and overview of each of the…
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The Birdcage: From Stage to Screen and Screen Again
Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Known to many as a pair, their work stretched between underground comedy shows, the bright lights of Broadway, and the Silver-Screen of film. Despite this reputation as a pair, much success was gained for each through independent projects, including Nichols’ work on The Graduate (1967), and May’s work as a…
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Altman’s The Player in 2023
One of the most interesting ways a films can age is not when it becomes more problematic, or more removed from the present state of the world, but rather when a critique it makes or topic it satirizes becomes all the more scathing, proving to be even more true as time has passed. This is…
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Biosphere [TIFF 2022]
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Biosphere (2023) is the latest addition to the surprisingly long list of films under the umbrella “it’s hard to talk about this movie because any plot point is a spoiler”. Putting it plainly, Biosphere follows the last two men on Earth, living within their own biosphere, as they change and adapt for the future of…
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Summer 1993
Loss is a tricky emotion to capture in film. Throughout its representations, one stands out in its unique representation of grief and loss through the eyes of a child. Summer 1993 (2017) is a beautiful portrait of the Catalan countryside, twinged throughout by this complex grief experienced by a child. This Catalan-language Spanish film directed…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Following the likes of Thor: Love and Thunder and Ant-Man: Quantumania, it was up in the air whether Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 would follow this recent trend of poorly executed films from Marvel Studios. Despite its lacklustre precursor films, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 succeeds not only in its refreshing storyline and…
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Swarm
With celebrity worship becoming the new normal in fan behaviour, it was only a matter of time before film and television tackled the new wave of fans head on. Swarm is one of the latest limited series released in 2023, tackling the way the new generation seems to be growing unhealthily obsessed with their famous…
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BlackBerry
The world was forever changed on January 9th, 2007 when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce the iPhone. But years before, with a journey beginning in 1996, Mike Lazaridis created the first prototype of his invention that successfully combined the workings of a phone, messaging, and e-mail device. Creating the world’s first smartphone,…
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Clock
What if a body was viewed to most as a mere machine? One running gears, to be fed with power, and with a timer counting down the seconds until it would stop functioning as evolution required forever. For many women, this is life, experiencing pressures from society to have children before their “biological clock”, the…
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