ARTS
Anora – TIFF Review
The rise and fall of a northeast princess In a cinematic environment where many audiences feel they can only be entertained by big-budget blockbusters, Anora explodes into the landscape reminding viewers of the medium’s power to make individual stories into large-scale epics. Anora was written, directed, and edited by Sean ...
Riff Raff, The Last Showgirl, and Saturday Night – TIFF Reviews
Families forged out of ensembles Riff Raff: Families are… complicated. The messiness which arises from poor communication has produced numerous comedies through time. However, the experience you get when combining family comedy with a bunch of assassins is uniquely felt in Dito Montiel’s new film Riff Raff. The film features ...
What to watch at TIFF 2024!
The Strand gives previews for our most anticipated films at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is back this year to transform the city into the global centre of film from September 5 to 15. The Strand will have full coverage of the film ...
Deja vu media: same story, different day?
An inquiry on the nature of remakes/reboots in media from history to now Can you remember the last time you went to the movie theatre and not a single remake or sequel was playing? I certainly can’t. Why do the same stories keep coming back, and why do audiences eat ...
Revenge of the hipsters
It didn’t die with millennial flannel in Brooklyn: thrifting has been gentrified all over by us Thrifting is here with a vengeance As much as I’d like to blame Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” for the price of secondhand clothes, I know that it’s not really Macklemore’s fault. The song’s release in ...
It is not the thought that counts
How nostalgia trumps our culture’s demand for progressive narratives As the saying goes, times are a-changing, and that includes our media. Yet some things do not change, such as our love for Gossip Girl (2007) and Sex and the City (1998). In 2020, there was a major resurgence of interest ...
Interpolations and interpretations
Art is a product of work that existed before it
If this is the end, I’m signing off
Unpacking the brilliance of Lana Del Rey’s “The Greatest”
To all the roommates I loved before
You browse the shelves at Indigo, perusing the romance section for another enemies-to-lovers book to spice up your life. But you want something new…something exciting. You pick up a book titled The Roommate, already auto-filling the story in your head before you’ve even read the summary on the sleeve. Through ...
To love and live on the runway
Vivienne Westwood’s SS24 collection, and the memorialisation of fashion designers