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By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

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

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

Gus Van Sant movies always create a buzz. When Elephant came out in 2003 there was great talk of his haunting scenes of a school shooting, while 1991’s My Own Private Idaho is first to come to mind when talking of hustlers and wasted youth. Now Van Sant has joined forces with the likes of… Continue reading Movie Review: Ruined last days don’t ruin Last Days

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

Humans have five senses: sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste. Some people count a sixth paranormal sense, but it’s relied on less than the others which, when combined, form the basic framework through which we experience our lives. Most of us take our senses for granted, never contemplating how we would manage if they suddenly… Continue reading Movie Scoop: Pete Tong rocks the house

By Sherri Shergill

Let’s say all the Jennifers, Toms and Micheals disappear. Now take away the millions of dollars, the egos, the huge movie companies, flashy directors and superficial filmmakers and what’s left? Underground movies willing to stray from the norm and provide original and authentic entertainment. And if different is what you’re looking for, the Calgary Underground… Continue reading Movie Preview: Calgary’s own underground

By Kyle Francis

Walking into Kung Fu Hustle, it’s difficult to know what to expect. The title and trailer for the film promised many people getting punched, kicked and hit with things, but the hype remained ambiguous. Considering the movie actually has the words “kung fu” in the title, most would anticipate a cut-and-dry martial arts punch-fest about… Continue reading Movie Review: The best goddamn hustle in the biz

By Rebecca Pfliger

Sex sells. It always has and always will. The industry nets $57 billion worldwide every year. Inside Deep Throat takes a long, hard look at the history of pornography by examining one of its most infamous and financially successful films. Deep Throat was released in 1972 starring Linda Lovelace. The pornographic film hit mainstream cinema… Continue reading Movie Review: Scraping goodness inside of Deep Throat

By Jeff Kubik

Visit lovely Basin City. See soaking remains of men pounded into the floorboards; hear the crackle of staccato gunfire in dark alleyways; marvel at noir grotesquerie painted with dollops of jaw-dropping nudity, blanched blood and steely one-liners. Visit, but don’t stay. It’s murder trying to live in Sin City. Clear as black and white, Frank… Continue reading Movie Review: Definitely worth going to Hell for

By Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed

‘Horror films are the teat upon which I was weaned,” says Hussein Juma, writer and director of the soon-to-be-completed 16MM zombie short School of the Dead. Created by his graduating film class at SAIT, the project fulfills Juma’s long-standing dream of becoming a horror filmmaker. Certainly as early as junior high CALM 20 class where… Continue reading Movie Interview: How I learned to love the zombie

By Ben Hoffman

A haunting sense of paranoia accompanies the conclusion of Primer, the eerie fulfillment of director/writer/lead actor Shane Carruth’s sagacious take on modern life and science. Carruth, with his background in mathematics and corporate engineering, seems to have filled in all the variables. The movie’s fractals dance is a masterpiece that can communicate a sense of… Continue reading Movie Review: Time bendingly brilliant

By Kyle Francis

If someone were to list the coolest things ever, aliens, talking beavers, hot French girls and shadowy government agencies would definitely appear. It stands to reason a movie with all of these elements rolled into one neat little package has enough concept-driven strength to carry it through two hours. This unapologetically Canadian epitome of awesome… Continue reading Movie Review: Phil the Alien cool in that Canadian way