Watch out, Spielberg. Michael Haneke’s Amour and its six Oscar nominations are coming for you Sometimes it’s easy to predict which way Oscar-voters will lean. In the Best Picture category, they tend to play it safe, opting to vote for films that promote a message that isn’t too “out there”. Basically, they avoid controversy. In…
While a technical masterpiece, Zero Dark Thirty fails to build any meaningful relationship between cast Zero Dark Thirty, the latest offering from The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow, is a monumental film. Chronicling the decade-long search for Osama Bin Laden, Bigelow puts together a thorough profile of the woman behind the initiative, Maya (Jessica Chastain), whose…
With Christmas around the corner, should Christmas trees be adorning the halls of BCIT? Walking through the halls of building SE2 at Burnaby Campus, one cannot help but notice the proliferation of Christmas trees that have begun to pop up. Making my way to the offices of The Link, located above the Great Hall, I…
Despite its critical role, Canada’s involvement gets unjustly overlooked the film adaptation of the 1980 hostage rescue mission Before Ben Affleck hits the Oscar trail for his film Argo, he needs to account for the proverbial bitch-slap he handed Canadians with his film. Argo, based on the 1980 joint US-Canadian effort to save six American…