By Ryan Pike
When the book is written on the history of film, 2007 is likely to be remembered as a year with many good films but few great ones. Such is the challenge when crafting a list of the best films of the year: there are many films that could find their way onto the list, but… Continue reading The Top 10 Films of 2007
By Ryan Pike
More often than not, films feature idealistic characters striving against adversity to make the world a better place. While these films can be entertaining, it’s often more fun to witness idealistic characters completely screw everything up. In Mr. Woodcock, we meet John Farley (played by Seann William Scott). After being tormented by his gym teacher… Continue reading Woodcock is flaccid yet funny
By Ryan Pike
The beginning of fall means a lot of things: school is starting, snow will soon fall and new episodes of your favourite TV shows will soon begin again. For those requiring something to distract them from studying, here are the Gauntlet‘s picks for the new fall television season.BIG BANG THEORY [CTV/CBS; Mondays at 9:30 p.m.]A… Continue reading Making the most of the idiot box
By Ryan Pike
The adaptation of a popular story from one medium to another is often an arduous task, particularly if that property has a large and rabid fanbase. With the release of the fifth installment of the Harry Potter adaptations, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the filmmakers are finally feeling the pinch of translating… Continue reading Film Review: Phoenix doesn’t soar
By Erika Lieu
Finally, Lucy Liu has a movie to really call her own. Never mind standing alongside other gorgeous women–or otherwise, if you have Calista Flockhart in mind–Lucy Liu keeps the spotlight in Rise: Blood Hunter. But it has to be naked, or half naked, at least. That’s right, Rise: Blood Hunter not only has a dodgy… Continue reading Film Review: Rise: Blood Hunter
By Sara Hanson
The rate of homelessness in Calgary is growing faster than anywhere else in the province. In response to this disturbing trend, the University of Calgary’s Development Studies Club held a forum to discuss the Calgary housing crisis Thur., Mar. 29. “We’ve heard a lot about this present crisis and we wanted to relate the issue… Continue reading Students host affordable housing forum
Last Wednesday an icon fell. Awaiting an arraignment for leading a resistance force against the government’s Superhero Registration Act, Captain America was shot in the pages of his eponymous comic book. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. Then the media went a bit nuts. Major newspapers and television networks began paying… Continue reading Death to (Captain) America!
By Kyle Francis, Ryan Pike and Garth Paulson
The Boys – Garth Ennis and Daryck Robertson (Wildstorm) The Boys poses the classic post-Watchmen question: What if superheroes suddenly appeared in a world not unlike our own rather than one where it’s just as likely to get superpowers from a cereal box as an alien spacecraft? In Ennis’ world, someone with the strength to… Continue reading Best of Comics in 2006
By Ryan Pike
Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film Raging Bull opens with washed-up boxer Jake La Motta practicing his lounge act in a dressing room. La Motta’s desperate grasp at extending his 15 minutes of fame fails and the rest of the film chronicles La Motta’s life, acting as both a fall-from-grace tale and a criticism of fame’s fleeting… Continue reading Getting freaky for fame a shame
The short days of January are the big leagues for cliches. It’s always during the first few lectures when profs pull out their dusty ol’ colloquialisms and use them anew. Meanwhile, every student is heard spouting the same old resolutions about better study and sleeping habits. But not even the most blow-hard history prof could… Continue reading Film Review: Sex, drugs and twang