Everyone wants to be Batman. The bleak and brooding Batman Begins may have saved the Bat-franchise from the abysmal Batman & Robin, but its tone and style have since been aped incessantly by directors who seem to think that comic book movies can’t be relevant or profitable unless they are “dark.”
Lazarus is the newest project of the award winning duo of writer Greg Rucka and artist Michael Lark. As much as I anticipated and enjoyed this read as a quintessential sci-fi narrative with a strong female protagonist, I was let down a bit—but only a bit.
Munchkin (n): a derogatory term for someone who plays a role-playing game (RPG) and instead of focussing on storytelling, focusses on over-powering their characters, getting all the loot, and killing other players. The term came from more experienced role-players commenting on other players’ immature and petting gaming style.
Could you do with some pop-rock covers, concert band, choral arrangements, original pieces, or a more jazz standard theme to your night’s soundtrack? Then check out the Douglas College music department’s concert season.
A dying mother asks her son for one last wish: for him to spread her ashes in a northern lake of Kyrat, a fictional representation of Nepal. Thus begins the story of Far Cry 4.
The third instalment of the Hunger Games phenomenon is finally here with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. First off, I’m actually glad the final book has been divided into two movies. The movies now have a lot more room to seriously follow what Suzanne Collins wrote.
With NaNoWriMo coming to a close this week, there’s another time-limited writing competition worth checking out: the International 3-Day Novel Contest. During the Labour Day weekend, writers are challenged with producing a novel of about 100 pages in just 72 hours.
Are you tired of the same old Charlie Brown specials on every year? While heartwarming Christmas movies have their place, many of us grow bored with the typical heartwarming movies airing on cable and Netflix.
It is looking like Disney and Marvel will have yet another successful hit during the holiday season with this year’s Big Hero 6, which placed first in the box office on its opening weekend, beating Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
When Rena Varsakis isn’t busy with archeology work, she’s designing knitting patterns for clothes, accessories, and toys. For her latest design, a pattern for a monster-themed, octopus-like knitted toy called monsteropus, she put the project on Kickstarter with a modest funding goal of $50.
