The Holdovers: Alexander Payne’s latest film proves why comedy-dramas are still very much a thing
Movies about boarding schools tend to be hit or miss.
Some are quite good at depicting the painful steps of adolescence while juggling school work and extracurricular activities. Others tend to fall into cliche territory with sappy romances that may or may not work out....
Black History Month Film Festival
The Faculty of Arts at UNB Saint John will be hosting a film series in partnership with PRUDE Inc. in support of Black History Month. Three movies will be shown during the month of February, starting at 4PM in Ganong Hall.
Pressure (1976), directed by...
The Iron Claw is a powerful, gripping sports drama Zac Efron headlines an intense look at how the desire for success can come with a high cost
Sports biopics can be either hit or miss.
Raging Bull is the famous Oscar-winning film by Martin Scorsese about tortured heavyweight boxer Jake La Motta, but it only features ten minutes of actual boxing. Seabiscuit is about the challenges of a businessman, a horse trainer,...
Show Review: Money Heist (2017)
“Money Heist” is a Netflix show created by Alex Pina that has been going on since 2017, and it is ended this year in December.
The show presents the viewer a heist story through the eyes of Tokyo, one of the robbers and the unreliable...
Maestro is perhaps Bradley Cooper’s finest work as a filmmaker
The actor-director’s latest offering is an engaging, rather unconventional biopic on Netflix. But does it offer the goods?
Biographical drama films about musicians and composers can be either hit or miss. While some biopics like Ray, Walk The Line, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, and Elvis did...
Wonka is a great visual fest of storytelling and pure imagination
Many stories have been told and retold time after time. Sure, we have plays, books, songs, and television shows that are remade and reinterpreted. Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a popular children’s book from 1964.
It received a film adaptation in 1971...
Film Review: West Side Story deserves Best Picture
In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the film industry. Films scheduled for 2020-21 got stuck in limbo (Morbius, Top Gun: Maverick); big and small theatres faced bankruptcy, and the paradigm shift of theatrical releases to streaming has only begun.
The 94th Academy Awards...
The Lighthouse (2019) – directed by Robert Eggers
The dark, alarming sounds of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse and its secrets will keep an audience thrilled throughout.
Right from the start of the movie, when the ship arrives at the lighthouse, the audience is greeted by the startling sounds that welcome the audience to...
Saint John joins the “Race to Zero” environmental campaign
This month, the City of Saint John joined the “Race to Zero” environmental campaign.
After the motion was brought up in October by Councillor-at-Large Brent Harris, the pledge to join the environmental campaign was adopted.
Saint John is the second city in Atlantic Canada to join...
Psycho (1960 film) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film, Psycho, is 156 minutes of thrilling intensity that has captivated audiences for decades, although the typical horror movie fanatic may be unaware of its in-depth investigation into the human psyche. In its application of the ideas of Freud's psychoanalysis,...