The Marda Loop Justice Film Festival goes digital
By Mackenzie Mason, Arts Editor The Marda Loop Justice Film Festival (MLJFF) is back for its 15th year, but for the first time in its history, it won’t be held in a hall or...
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Watch the Calgary International Film Festival — from home?
By Mackenzie Mason, Arts Editor In the midst of a global pandemic, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is determined to keep the show going. While they are continuing to offer in-person screenings, the...
How Little Women shows the different sides of feminism
By Mackenzie Gellner, Web Editor Arguably, there is a certain stereotype associated with feminism. However, feminism as a word and a movement merely refers to gender equality, and the right to determine your own...
A list of the most iconic holiday films of all time
By Colin Macgillivray, Arts Editor Sick and tired of reading lists that rank holiday movies each year? Well too bad! I’ve signed a contract with jolly old Saint Nick himself and he’s gnashing at the...
Why The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is tailor-made for Netflix
By Colin Macgillivray, Arts Editor Joel and Ethan Coen undoubtedly share a fondness for the Old West. Their latest flick, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is a deeply entertaining, yet harrowing composition of six...
Review: The experimental mosaic that is The Other Side of the Wind
By Alec Warkentin, Staff Writer Perhaps it’s a tad ironic that Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind — a film-within-a-film that revels in celebrating and satirizing mid-20th-century filmmaking and all of its...
Bringing the outside, inside: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival kicks off world tour
By Andi Endruhn, Layout Editor Mountaineers, climbers, skiers, snowboarders and self-professed outdoor enthusiasts of all kinds are not generally the people you would expect to pay and sit still indoors for hours on end....
Producer and director Brent Hodge on Freaks and Geeks documentary to be screened at CUFF
By: Robyn Welsh, Publishing Editor It’s generally accepted that high school sucks. What a lot of us have in common, is that we got through it. Freaks and Geeks puts a window to the...
Music documentary takes artistic look inside Feist’s world
by Edward Osborne Look At What The Light Did Now is the spellbinding story of iconic Canadian singersongwriter Leslie Feist. For anyone who has been caught humming one of Feist’s catchy singles or for...
Calgary’s Plaza Theatre celebrates 75 years
by Sheena Manabat In a relatively young city such as Calgary, The Plaza stands out as the city’s longest-running theatre. The cozy and charming Plaza was once a stable before becoming the one screen...
