As a full-time English Literature student and part-time movie-watcher, one of my greatest pleasures is building a mental web of intertextuality: The way texts are influenced by, adapted from, or allude to previous texts. Canonical works such as the Bible, Greek and Roman classics, and Shakespearean plays have long served[Read More…]
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What we liked this break
Warning: This piece contains spoilers. Hamnet – Dylan Hing, Contributor As a self-described theatre-lover, I finally found the time to watch Chloé Zhao’s newest film Hamnet over the winter break, and I think we can all agree that Jessie Buckley is overdue for an Oscar. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020[Read More…]
Messy mothers in the movies
The 2025 Oscars season features the struggles of parenthood throughout many of its award-nominated films. One Battle After Another, the frontrunner for Best Picture, follows aging stoner revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he races to save his daughter from his nemesis. And yet, the lead performances that stuck with me[Read More…]
‘One Battle After Another’ and the never-ending need for resistance
Holding on tightly to its place at the top of the box office since its release on Sept. 26, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new action thriller One Battle After Another continues to captivate and delight viewers. With it, Anderson maintains his standing as one of cinema’s best and brightest filmmakers. Inspired[Read More…]
Zacharias Kunuk’s new film reclaims Inuit myths for Inuit Voices
At the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 14, Inuit filmmaker and co-founder of Isuma Productions, Zacharius Kunuk, received the Best Canadian Feature Film Award for his latest work, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband). This award recognizes his career’s continued influence—defined by innovation, community, and cultural reclamation. Over two decades after his[Read More…]
‘The Missing Image Is: Gaza’ counter-screening calls attention to absence
“To omit Palestine is a political act.” These words, drawn from a public statement by Montreal-based film collective Regards Palestiniens, call out the 2025 edition of the Biennale d’art contemporain, In Praise of the Missing Image. On its website, the Biennale boasts that its diverse programming, which seeks to “amplify[Read More…]
Sheep are having a Pop Culture moment—and it’s unsettling
They’re baaaaaack—and not in a cute nursery rhyme kind of way. Sheep have tiptoed their way back into the cultural frame, not just as pastoral props but as full-blown characters, metaphors, and messengers. From a blood-streaked Icelandic hybrid in Lamb to the soft-eyed flocks in Bergers, the modern media sheep[Read More…]
‘The Brutalist’ is a triumph that left me unsatisfied
The word “monumental” has been impossible to avoid in discussions around The Brutalist, the latest feature film by former actor Brady Corbet. It’s been cemented as a frontrunner in the Oscar race after winning Best Motion Picture (Drama) at the Golden Globes and picking up 10 Oscar nominations. Keeping in[Read More…]
David Lynch’s eternal worlds of surreal, torturous beauty
How does one memorialize a life? Through the images they have created or traces they have left behind? How can one encapsulate an entire legacy from the ashes of bodily presence? Treading in the wake of David Lynch’s recent passing, our world can reconstruct these traces from his transcendental cultural[Read More…]
Nosferatu reawakened: A symphony of horror!
‘Twas a dark and stormy night, when the screen flickered bright. Not a creature was stirring, not even a bite. The Christmas bells jingled, but something wasn’t right. Shadows were creeping, the moon hid from sight. Nosferatu emerged, a creature of night. We finally found out who was flickering the[Read More…]