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TIFF Review – Phantom Boy
In the new film Phantom Boy, police officer Alex Tanguey is injured on the job during a run-in with an enigmatic villain whose colourful, fragmented features earn him the moniker “the Man with the Broken Face.” Recovering in the hospital with a broken leg, Alex meets Leo, a gentle and ...
TIFF Review – Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story
If you could take Larry Clark’s Kids and merge it with Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, you would get a film like Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story. Directed and written by Eva Husson in her directorial debut, the film explores the vivid sexuality of a group of teenagers in ...
Review – The End of the Tour
An early scene in James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour depicts the first meeting between Jesse Eisenberg’s reporter Dave Lipsky and Jason Segel’s David Foster Wallace. Eisenberg awkwardly tries to break ice by commenting on the home and property, to which Wallace responds, “I can’t take credit for the ...
Hillside Music Festival still gives hope
In recent years, music festivals have positioned themselves firmly in mainstream consciousness, and what was once an alternative method of enjoying and experiencing music has now become a manufactured product of a growing industry. Many festivals in North America, like Osheaga, Wayhome, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, are all big-time, for-profit ...
TIFF Review – Love
When the film industry heard that Gaspar Noé was in the process creating of a 3D art film, it collectively sighed, rolled its eyes, and moved onto more interesting topics. For those unfamiliar, Noé is known for the sheer provocation, controversy, and shock value that his films incur. Knowing the ...
Make Campus Your Own
First year is the opportune time to explore some seriously cool, hidden places at UofT. Entering university can be a daunting time, and this article can help sculpt this vast St. George campus into a more intimate and personalized space.
The Vic Commuter Experience
Kids in residence get to immediately experience the Vic community by simply staying in res. Commuter students, on the other hand, have to take more initiative to become involved on campus in order to access the sense of community that res kids take for granted.
VIC100 Syllabus: Artistic Persuasions for Impressionable First-Years
Intellectually taxing yet stimulating, emotionally draining yet enriching, this course is designed to help Frosh navigate the cacophony of contradictions that make up the First-Year Experience.
Enabling Amy Schumer: Accountability in Comedy
Sketches from the Peabody Award-winning third season of Inside Amy Schumer were as shareable as GIFs on social media this summer. From one feed to another, people posted clips of her show while proclaiming to have just discovered the feminist icon of comedy...
What to see at TIFF if You’re Tired of Hollywood
I’m a total award season junkie and I will definitely see all of the Best Picture nominees by January 2016, but I think it’s worth it to wait to gush over Tom Hardy’s double performance in Legend, Bryan Cranston in Trumbo, or Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld.