A ballad of songbirds, snakes and ingenuity
Ever since the trailer for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out this April, the world of The Hunger Games — or as some…
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Growing up undead
Vampires have captured the imagination of western audiences for many decades, all the way from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the numerous Hollywood adaptations thereof, through…
The best artists steal
My high school film teacher gave me a critical piece of advice when I asked how to compose a good scene: “The best artists steal.”…
The ’Toban staff’s spooktacular Halloween media picks
The Thing (1982) John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is a masterwork of horror filmmaking. The oppressive, cold atmosphere evokes an extreme paranoia in the audience…
We’ll never go out of style and neither will concert movies
Stepping into Scotiabank Theatre for the opening night of the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour film screening felt like stepping into a different world. Attendees wore sparkly…
Destruction of Gaza forecasted in film
Reality is worse than fiction. There’s a scene in Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s 2002 film Divine Intervention where an unarmed woman wearing a pink cocktail…
Twilight is camp and I was wrong to be a hater
Unlike most 13-year-olds of my generation, I did not have a strange parasocial connection and love for Twilight (2008). My vampiric interests were solely based…
Week-long 2SLGBTQ+ film festival returns
Reel Pride Film Festival, Canada’s oldest festival of 2SLGBTQ+ films, makes its annual return with a week of screenings later this month. From Sept. 26…
What’s the deal with Timothée Chalamet?
Those who watched Barbie recently may have seen previews for Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka before he founded his funhouse of…
You should care about the Hollywood strikes
In Hollywood, Calif., union actors and writers have pressed pause on television and film productions to hit play on the picket lines. While these strikes…