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True Grit A young girl’s father dies, and she heads to the town to finalize his affairs, and hire a US Marshall to track down the murderer. While it seems that Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon are the stars of the film, within a few minutes of watching, you see that their only purpose is to support the real star Elizabeth Marvel who plays Mattie Ross, the young girl. Her performance is brilliant, and it’s quite the gripping film. While the Coen brothers can be hit or miss, this might be their best yet. In my mind their only competition is O Brother, Where Art Thou? See this as soon… Read More »Film Roundup

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

For a long time I’ve refrained from seeing the final instalment of the second Star Wars trilogy. I was under the impression that the only way the trilogy could redeem itself after the catastrophes that were The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones was if they did two things: Yoda is a Muppet again. Yoda says “Wocka wocka!” While I knew neither of these things would happen, I could pretend they did if I didn’t watch the film. I would hear others bandying about complimentary terms like “surprisingly good,” “not bad,” and “could be worse;” these compliments were said in vain. I think Revenge of the Sith can best… Read More »Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

How To Train Your Dragon

A tale of a Viking boy, who’s not quite the Viking-image his father wishes for him. While his village is filled with the strong, big warriors, he’s the weakling of the bunch. More clever than strong, Hiccup is the inventor of the group, but brute strength is what they believe to be the only way to conquer the invading dragons. Hiccup captures a dragon and learns from it. Eventually leading to the discovery that the dragons are enslaved by a mightier dragon, and that they only raid the village to get food for the King Dragon. The story leads to the obvious conclusion of the Humans deposing the King Dragon,… Read More »How To Train Your Dragon

J’ai besoin d’un titre.

Rivers performing “God Only Knows.” Sheezer perform “El Scorcho” Sheezer’s bass player Laura Barrett’s first single. Sheezer drummer and boxing coach (?!?!) Dana Snell in Gentleman Reg’s “How We Exit”

Easy A

I didn’t expect to so thoroughly enjoy this film, but the film is a lot of fun with a great cast of to compliment it. Specifically the adults in the film, who are only in the movie to compliment Olive (Emma Stone) and have little character of their own, are so well played with excellent comic timing. The film centres on Olive, a high school girl who makes a quick excuse to excuse herself from her BFF’s family camping extravaganza. Her excuse being a date… EEE! When she denies losing her virginity to this college boy, her friend assumes the worst1. Olive figures she might as well play along, and… Read More »Easy A

Black Swan

When I was invited out to see one of the new buzz films Black Swan, I really had no idea what to expect. I had heard the name bandied about, always with something good to say, and I had seen that it was a ballet film, but I hadn’t even seen the trailer. After watching the trailer, I was underwhelmed, but I felt the same way based on the trailer for Inception, and was blown away by the film. Black Swan did the same. Who would’ve thought a ballet film could be this good? Black Swan is about a ballet dancer in a major metropolis’ company, forever dancing on the… Read More »Black Swan

Le Déclin de l’empire américain

Le Declin de l’empire americain is a film about eight friends who work together in the History department of the Université de Montréal. These four men and four women share two other things in common, they speak French, and they’re perverted. One of these two things I also share with them1. While the women are at the gym discussing their sex lives, the men are at home cooking for the women. They regale one another with stories of their conquests and flashbacks to their trysts. While Diane tells of her new lover Mario, with whom she has gone to new levels of lust and submission; Pierre tells of his experiences trolling… Read More »Le Déclin de l’empire américain

Responsible Government

Upper Canada fought long and hard for responsible government, leading ourselves away from the Family Compact which was governing the people of Upper Canada with only an image of elected officials. However, our government is still not perfect, and can be improved to be more democratic and representative to the people? Here’s some ideas: Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to donate to political parties. Clear and concise guidelines for the reserve powers of the Crown and how it can be implemented by the Governor General. Petitioning the Commonwealth to revise the Statute of Westminster to no longer show gender and religious precedence so that the Heads of State reflects the “Just… Read More »Responsible Government

Mary Hopkin on Apple

Post Card When Mary Hopkin began her career at Apple, she was no more than a voice; a tool with which Paul McCartney was going to use to craft pop mastery1. Hopkin’s voice was superb and fantastic, and McCartney saw that to make a good record of classics and new material which would be universally adored. He began with the Russian tune (which Gene Raskin added English lyrics to) called “Those Were The Days.” The song went on to be an international smash hit. Post Card picks up where they left off2. McCartney found many songs for her, three from Donovan, one from Harry Nilsson, one from George Martin, some… Read More »Mary Hopkin on Apple