Film Archives - Queen's Journal

ReelOut Queer Film Festival delivers diverse short films

Written on February 4, 2022. Posted in Arts, Film.

ReelOut Queer Film Festival’s ‘Darling Buds of May’ is a collection of family-friendly shorts, offering fun watches for kids and nostalgic experiences for adults. The collection features five films from India, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Some involve emotionally moving topics...

‘Don’t Look Up’ is all message, no movie

Written on January 21, 2022. Posted in Lifestyle.

Deservedly or not, Don’t Look Up has earned a significant place in contemporary pop culture. With a stacked, high-profile cast and comedic tone, the Netflix original depicts a reality where a devastation-level comet is headed toward the Earth. The film is written and directed by Adam McKay, who is...

'West Side Story' rights some wrongs, but not nearly enough

Written on January 18, 2022. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

This article discusses sexual assault and may be triggering for some readers. The Kingston Sexual Assault Centre’s 24-hour crisis and support phone line can be reached at 613-544-6424 / 1-800-544-6424. Back in 2017, I ran down the stairs excited to tell my parents a West Side Story remake had been...

Queen’s professors win Panorama Award

Written on November 26, 2021. Posted in Arts, Film.

On Nov. 17, Queen’s professors Karen Dubinsky and Susan Lord were awarded the Panorama Award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education. The professors received the award for their work with the Cuban Culture and Society program, which they helped develop approximately 15 years ago. Dubinsky,...

Public art exhibition celebrates Canadian filmmakers

Written on November 5, 2021. Posted in Arts, Film.

A public art exhibition called Film x Design has been unveiled through the Kingston Canadian Film Festival (KCFF). Exhibition pieces are on display in Kingston at Paved Paradise on Brock Street, across from Market Square and at the Broom Factory at 305 Rideau St. The installation is a celebration...

Ryan Randall wins cinematography award for ‘Workhorse’

Written on July 26, 2021. Posted in Arts, Visual.

Ryan Randall is an accomplished film and media technician. He works in Queen’s department of film and media teaching production fundamentals as an adjunct lecturer, and serves as the technical director of the Vulnerable Media Lab. He’s also the cinematographer behind Workhorse, winner of the 2021...

'The Intangible Queer' explores identity through abstraction and experimentation

Written on June 28, 2021. Posted in Arts, Film.

Combining theatre, film, and abstract art, YIKES! A Theatre Company’s The Intangible Queer embraces unconventional storytelling. The show premiered through Reelout’s Summer Queer Showcase on Jun. 4th and will be available until Aug. 31. Directed by Kemi King and Lisbet MacLean, both ArtSci ’21,...

‘Zack Synder’s Justice League’ deserves its second chance

Written on March 26, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

Zack Synder’s Justice League is a reminder that the good guys always win. Back in 2017, the original version of Justice League limped into theatres. An all-star cast couldn’t save the movie from becoming an all-time-worst superhero box-office flop. Reviews for the film ranged from lukewarm to downright...

Sarah Waisvisz imagines the future of Blackness through monodrama Witness Shift

Written on March 12, 2021. Posted in Arts.

When Professor Sarah Waisvisz first read Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s intensely intimate play Witness Shift, she cried. Witness Shift challenges the modern-day policing system with an alternate, community-based model of handling distress calls. Waisviz’s adaptation of St. Bernard’s play lives at...

Why I fall back into ‘comfort watching’

Written on February 26, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Student Life.

“Are you still watching?” This is the prompt that appears when Netflix is concerned that you’re spending too much time in front of the screen. Most of us have been there—a rabbit hole of content that winds up an hours-long spiral of binge watching. Personally, this happens more often than I’d care...

Being a young filmmaker in Canada is something to celebrate, not escape

Written on January 24, 2021. Posted in Editorials.

There’s a lingering preconception among many young filmmakers in Canada that to truly have a successful career in film, we must pack up and head down south for good. This belief is false and distracts many from seizing valuable opportunities for screen-based creators here in Canada. While numerous...

Stick with ‘WandaVision’—it’s headed places

Written on January 22, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

It’s easy to fall in love with the tried-and-true format that has made Marvel movies so successful and reject anything straying from that formula, but WandaVision is a good reason to keep an open mind. WandaVision, a new show set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), presents viewers with a...

The sole problem with ‘Soul’

Written on January 22, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

Disney and Pixar’s Soul could be a perfect knockout, but it plays things too safe. The new film is appealing in all dimensions. The animation is, as we’ve come to expect from Disney and Pixar, stunning, and the voice actors do a phenomenal job at delivering this brilliantly written tale. It almost...

The history of Indigenous representation in film and television

Written on November 13, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle.

It’s not controversial to state that Hollywood has a representation problem. In over 100 years of productions, positive and well-rounded Indigenous characters have been notably missing from film and television. The history of Indigenous representation is a long and messy one, with the absence of Indigenous...

Is nostalgia cramping Hollywood’s creativity?

Written on October 16, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

Over the past decade, it’s started to appear as if Hollywood is incapable of creating anything new. From the recent Star Wars sequel trilogy to what feels like the hundredth Batman reboot in the last two decades, popular characters and franchises are being continuously reinvented, reimagined, and...

A24’s filmmaking crafts meaningful art under a new mainstream spotlight

Written on October 8, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

From Lady Bird to Mid90s, A24 has consistently been producing intricate, aesthetically-charged films which connect with its audiences on multiple levels. The magic of its filmmaking is arguably the balance between imagery and plot; A24 is known for vibrant cinematography that encapsulates the...

Commentary: Theatre and film are increasingly merging mediums

Written on September 18, 2020. Posted in Arts.

As COVID-19 forces theatre companies around the world to innovate and adapt to a new virtual forum, the lines between theatre and film continue to blur. For some critics, this means losing the aspects of theatre which make it such a moving art form. “Streaming and recording has been a gigantic ad...

How COVID-19 has impacted entertainment

Written on September 3, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

From the onset of the spread of COVID-19 into North America to now, there’s been a stark change in the way the entertainment industry operates. From film sets being shuttered within a matter of days to movie releases being forced to rely on streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime more heavily...

Kim's Convenience actress comes to Kingston

Written on March 3, 2020. Posted in Arts.

Emerging from the ranks of CBC’s hit comedy Kim’s Convenience, Canadian Screen Award-nominated actor and screenwriter Andrea Bang has found her footing in the world of independent film and TV. Bang is coming to Kingston on March 14as part of Kingston Canadian Film Festival’s Behind the Scenes event...

Oscars 2020: Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, and more

Written on February 13, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

After a few years of controversy over the lack of diversity in nominees and award-winners, the 2020 Oscars saw audiences reasonably content with this year’s results. Korean director Bong Joon-ho became the first foreign creator to win Best Picture. He now shares Walt Disney’s 67-year-old record for...

Annual Isabel event showcases global voices

Written on February 4, 2020. Posted in Arts.

This year’s Human Rights Arts Festival is embracing the communicative power of art. Running from Jan. 23 to April 17, the festival includes work from multiple artistic disciplines and genres. First launched in 2017, it combines film, theatre, dance and music, all drawn together by the common theme...

Reelout brings global LGBTQ+ cinema to Kingston

Written on January 28, 2020. Posted in Arts.

In 1999, Queen’s student Marney McDiarmid, a member of the OPIRG Kingston, was interested in art and queer activism. With a group of students, along with a few faculty and community members, McDiarmid arranged a small weekend movie screening of queer films at a local Kingston gay bar, Club 477, and...

Banff Mountain Film Festival comes back to town

Written on January 21, 2020. Posted in Arts.

Since 1992, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour has been stopping into Kingston to display films by creators from all walks of life and levels of experience. This year, Trailhead hosted the festival from Jan. 18 to 20. The focus of the tour is to draw attention to films that demonstrate...

Full Focus: How a campus film festival built a friendship

Written on January 17, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Postscript.

Jonathon: As a Film and Media minor, I knew entering university that I wanted to get involved in extracurricular activities that fostered my interest in making videos. Little did I know that, now, as a third-year student, I’d be the video editor at The Queen’s Journal. In a lot of ways, it all started...

Little Women brings modern feminism to a familiar story

Written on January 10, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

2019 was the year of movie reboots, remakes, and questionable sequels. In a renaissance of retreading familiar stories in film, Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women proves that some stories do deserve to be retold. There’s certainly no shortage of adaptations of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little...

Three unconventional Indian films to watch this winter break

Written on November 29, 2019. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

The winter break is within sight, and with it comes ample time to catch up on streaming TV shows and movies. This year, mix up your watch list by adding some Indian films to the roster. Recently, Indian producers have released some great films that turn convention on its head. While I’m not immune...

Hysteria over the Joker movie is unjustified

Written on October 18, 2019. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

Before the new Joker film was released on Oct. 4, critics feared the filmmakers’ choice to sympathetically portray Arthur Fleck, the character who would become DC Comics villain Joker, would inspire real-life loners to carry out mass shootings at screenings of the movieor elsewhere. This was based...

Why Joker has been deemed dangerous by critics

Written on October 8, 2019. Posted in Lifestyle, Pop Culture.

Though it’s not uncommon for films to receive heavy criticism following their release, DC Entertainment’s newest blockbuster, Joker, has generated an unprecedented amount of controversy. The concern shared by critics and audiences alike is that the film glorifies mass shooters and will have dangerous...

Alt-frosh film screening set to shed light on migrants’ rights

Written on September 17, 2019. Posted in Arts.

This week, members of the Queen’s community will have the opportunity to join an event aimed at breaking down social barriers and unifying people despite their differences. On Sept. 18, Solidarity Kingston and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) are hosting a film screening and discussion...

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