Tag: Movies

By Jordyn Marcellus

Dust off the old eight millimetre prints because the faculty of communication and culture is inviting families from all across Calgary to raid their trunks and closets to find their own tiny pieces of film art. Home Movie Day is part of a larger global phenomenon created as a celebration of amateur films by local… Continue reading Precious family time

By Savannah Hall

In the late ’50s and early ’60s, at the peak of the civil rights movements, Ernie Davis was one of the few African Americans playing varsity football. The Express, starring Rob Brown (Take the Lead, Coach Carter) as Davis and Dennis Quaid (The Rookie, Any Given Sunday) as coach Schwartzwalder, tells his story. After growing… Continue reading Biopic burns out

By Katherine Zelt

Talking dog gets lost. Talking dog finds talking dog friend. Talking dog finds home and lives happily ever after. Though by no means an original story, it is indubitably a pleaser to an audience of under 12-year-olds. When Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore), a spoiled, shallow, Harry Winston-sporting Chihuahua gets dog-napped and thrown into a… Continue reading Beverly Hills Chihuahua chokes

By Katy Anderson

When Jose Saramago made his acceptance speech for his Nobel Prize in Literature, he recounted how, when it got very cold, his grandpa, a pig farmer, would grab his little piggies from outside and keep them in his bed to keep them warm. He didn’t do this to be righteous, he did it out of… Continue reading Blindness provides insight into humanity

By Joel Cummings

It seems like a match made in heaven. Social satirist and comedian Bill Maher teams with Larry Charles, director of 2006’s hugely successful Borat, for a relentless, globe-trotting tirade against established religion in their new documentary Religulous (ostensibly a mixture of the words “religion” and “ridiculous”). The result is, as one would expect, side-splittingly hilarious.… Continue reading Religion + ridiculous = preachy doc

By Jordyn Marcellus

To make a good romantic comedy, you need to get the hell out of Hollywood. There’s nothing there but Botox, Spencer Pratt and loneliness, which is why it’s nice for a movie to go back to the most mythologized city in film and the place where almost all of Woody Allen’s classic tales of love… Continue reading Nick and Norah mixes a love story with sketched indie title font

By Christian Louden

When best-selling novels are adapted for the big screen, criticisms are sometimes leveled against screenplay writers for diverging too far from the original story. Something always gets lost in the abridgement, rearrangement or direction the film takes contrary to what the author originally intended. Ultimately, the book is usually much better than the film. With… Continue reading Movie adaptation takes Palahniuk’s words too literally