Lit Matters: Existentialism in the woods with Per Petterson“You decide when it will hurt,” chides a father to his son in Per Petterson’s novel Out Stealing Horses. The novel, set in the Norwegian forest in both the present day and in 1948, is a tender look at human relationships and the forces that determine how we, as individuals, are defined. Petterson has become […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: Kubo and the Two Strings plucks a heartfelt chordKubo and the Two Strings 4/5 I grew up watching movies. Every Friday night my sister and I would settle into the couch as my parents popped a flick into the VCR. It was a time to be truly at ease; there was no school worry, no chores to be done. It was a cathartic […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Is No Man’s Sky a fraud or just unfinished?Recently released PS4 and PC game No Man’s Sky has generated a lot of controversy since it came out. The procedural-generated space explorer said to have a world the size of the actual universe was incredibly hyped and anticipated leading up to its release on August 9. Initially slated to be released in July, buyers […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: The 400 Blows and the beauty it gives backThe 400 Blows 5/5 François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) is not a film for those just getting home from a night of debauchery; if you’re reading this while you sip gingerly on a cup of coffee, I advise that you turn to the hangover’s best friend, Netflix. This isn’t a film for a casual […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: An end to the foxes?A couple of issues ago, I wrote about former NBA player Rick Fox and his entry into the e-sports scene. Since then, his team Echo Fox has had some ups and downs in its play in all the different games they partake in. Most noticeably, the League of Legends branch of the team has been […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Of Dwarfs and princes“Human beings need flattery; otherwise they do not fulfill their purpose, not even in their own eyes,” said Piccoline, a 26-inch-tall dwarf who is the strange and misanthropic anti-hero of Pär Lagerkvist’s 1944 novel The Dwarf. Lagerkvist—who was a Swedish poet, novelist, and playwright in the first half of the 20th century—won the Nobel Prize […] Continue Reading |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Indigenous realityLiving as an indigenous person today is seemingly not so bad for most people, but it isn’t as great as everyone thinks for every person. We all have variable experiences. It is not possible to just put someone in an indigenous box—you don’t have an indigenous experience; you have a human experience. There are opportunities […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: Over the moon for MoonstruckMoonstruck 4.5/5 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: no other genre of film has more potential to be transcendental than the rom-com, which is why it’s also so easy for rom-coms to go wildly and disastrously astray. Moonstruck (1987) lands itself a spot among the transcendental; it’s in the upper echelon of […] Continue Reading |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Why oh why, oh Canada?While parades unfold, barbecues blaze, and fireworks launch in celebration of Canada Day, I find it more important than ever to critically engage with Canadian identity. The reality is that we are a diverse country with a vast array of identities, knit together on contiguous land yet apart because of our different access to power: […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Something new with OverwatchI’ve been playing a lot of the new game Overwatch. As a first-person shooter with aspects of LoL, Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty thrown in, it’s honestly a good game. (I didn’t think I would ever be saying that, as I despise Blizzard, the game company that made Overwatch, due to their policies, […] Continue Reading |
