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Two Guys, a Girl, and a Bomb Shelter

In 2008, Paramount Pictures released Cloverfield, a big-budget found-footage monster movie that was developed under much secrecy. Rumours circulated for months leading up to release that producer J.J. Abram’s studio was making a new Voltron or even Godzilla movie, creating a feverish anticipation among audiences eager to find out just what the hell Cloverfield was.

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Comic Corner: A solid mediocre

Is cliché fantasy that is done well still cliché? This is the question I asked myself as I examined The Dead God by Erik Bear. Yes, I enjoyed it. Yes, I felt it was immersive. But the entire experience left me with an itch in the back of my mind, a little tingling that said this was all too familiar.

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Experimental theatre

Following her work on several previous Douglas College Theatre Department projects, director and teacher Deborah Neville returns to direct MoisĂ©s Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, a play constructed from real life testimonies gathered from the residents of Laramie, Wyoming in response to the killing of Matthew Shepard, a local college student who was the victim of a hate killing at the hands of two Laramie residents.

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Bury Your Gays

The Bury Your Gays trope has come to the forefront of pop media discussion once more after the death of yet another LGBTQ+ character in a popular TV series (left unnamed here so as not to spoil the show). But what is this trope, and exactly how prevalent is it?