In and out of our program, Broadcast Media Studies students consume media all the time. Here’s where you can check out what they think about movies, TV shows, music and much more!
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - The Return of Kendrick
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers Kendrick Lamar pgLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope Records Score: A "One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days / I've been going through somethin'" . That's a line from the first song off the new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. One thousand eigh...
May 15, 2022
Insight on Disney's 'A Christmas Carol'
Disney's A Christmas Carol by Robert Zemeckis' is one of the most exhilarating visual experiences. It is an exceptionally good movie, but it was scarier than any other Disney movie I have ever watched as a child. There was skeletons, a dead body in a coffin and about 4 ghosts that looked very human like. When I first w...
Dec 16, 2021
Berserk - An Unfortunate Posthumous Masterpiece, but Could Have Been Greater
The Manga Berserk would have been the greatest dark-fantasy story of all time, if not for the untimely death of it's author. The manga of Berserk had no plot holes, no extra story to explain how things work in the world, no side content that you need to buy, no pointless character arcs (looking at you CW), and no lame ...
Dec 02, 2021
Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta: An Extensive Review
A Little Bit of Background Until recently, the only thing that seemed infinite about Halo Infinite was its development. First announced in July 2018, the game didn't have an official reveal until two years later at Xbox's E3 press conference. Fans had built up their excitement ever since the franchise's last installme...
Dec 01, 2021
CARRION - You're the Monster
You've seen it a thousand times in a hundred different ways. A science experiment gone wrong comes back to haunt those who dared to bring it to life. In a movie or a game, you typically see a scientist or civilization getting entangled in a deadly survival game where monsters hunt down the character throughout the sto...
Nov 30, 2021
The Imagery Behind Kanye's "Donda"
Kanye West is one of the most prolific and best-selling Hip-hop artists of all time with over 120 million records sold worldwide. The American rapper and producer released his tenth studio album "Donda" in late August 2021. The album consists of 27 songs with features from Jay Z, The Weekend, Young Thug, and ...
Nov 29, 2021
Cavalry FC: The Best Sporting Experience in Calgary You've Never Had
Live sports and Calgary have always gone hand-in-hand. From Flames games at the iconic Saddledome to tailgating at McMahon Stadium before a Stampeders home game - even the Roughnecks have successfully established a prominent professional lacrosse following in the Calgary area. The emergence of the Canadian Premiere Lea...
Nov 25, 2021
Looking Back at Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde, notorious romcom and a quotable masterpiece (arguably). It's been placed up alongside other popular chick flicks, like Mean Girls and Bring it On as being certified classics in most people's minds. Comedy is a mixture of the time period it's created in and the people creating it, and though times have c...
Nov 20, 2021
A review of a classic: Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher's cult classic Fight Club. The film explores an insomniac office worker who meets a free soul soapmaker, Tyler Durden. Both decide to start a fight club in order to get away from the stress of their everyday lives and gather more and more people, eventually ending up to create a giant fight club in a bar ...
Nov 13, 2021
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Free Guy: A Gamer's Dream
A mundane life chained to the norm. The titular character Guy is just a regular happy-go-lucky gentle soul, happy to wake up every morning and get his favourite cup of coffee from his favourite barista before he heads to a very predictable day at work as a bank teller. After living every day knowing exactly what is goi...
Nov 08, 2021
Eternals: A Change in Marvel's Films
One of the newest additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the film, Eternals. This film tells a story of the Eternals, a group of immortal super-powered beings created by the godlike cosmic entities, the Celestials, who sends them to Earth to fight against the Deviants, a race of immortal monsters and assi...
Nov 07, 2021
A Review of a Classic: The Game (1997)
Despite lacking explanations for some details that are teased, The Game is nevertheless a very satisfying film about a very rich man who has everything in material wealth, but nothing at the same time. Nicholas van Orten (played by Michael Douglas) is a well-to-do investment banker millionaire who seemingly has everyth...
Oct 29, 2021
Doctor Sleep: The Movie That Will Keep You Up At Night
Doctor Sleep, the sequel to the cult classic, The Shining, focuses on Dan Torrance's life now that he is all grown up. Both movies are adapted from the novels written by Stephen King. To give some backstory on The Shining, Dan is growing up in the Overlook Hotel where his father, Jack, is a caretaker. Dan has a special...
Oct 29, 2021
Delight in Cosmic Horror this Halloween with 3 Terrifying Features
Cosmic horror, it's defined as a sub-genre of horror fiction that emphasizes the horror of the things that are incomprehensible and unknowable. Instead of the elements of shock and terror you'd find in a typical horror movie, a cosmic horror story involves elements of cosmic dread, forbidden knowledge that leads people...
Oct 28, 2021
Whiplash: A Wild Drumming Story.
Whiplash is one of the best movies to come out in the last 7 years. The premise of the movie starts off pretty basic with a drummer that wants to just make Shaffer conservatory. A highly prestigious conservatory in the university that he is attending. Miles Teller plays a kid named Andrew who is a nerdy stereotypical b...
Oct 28, 2021
Squid game: Netflix's new smash
Squid Game: Does it deserve the hype? The South Korean drama "Squid Game" is Netflix's biggest new show, taking in over 144 million viewers in its first week of release. It has taken over the meme world of twitter and tiktok, and it's dominating the web and social media all over the globe. The question is,...
Oct 26, 2021
Dune: A spiced-up adaptation
Let the spice flow through you... For 56 years, adapting Frank Herbert's beloved sci-fi novel to the big screen, has been infamously difficult, with prolific directors such as David Lynch giving it his best shot in 1984, albeit with mixed results, followed by Alejandro Jodorowsky's unsuccessful attempt to bring the sto...
Oct 24, 2021
Learning Tagalog With Kayla: An unconventional language learning lesson
Learning a new language can be hard and taking lessons that are repetitive and boring can really disinterest you in mastering a new language. A short film created by Kayla Abuda Galang called Learning Tagalog With Kayla not only makes it exciting for viewers to learn Tagalog, the official language of the Philippines, b...
Oct 24, 2021
Dune: a Retrospective
Dune. Arrakis. Desert planet. In 1984, David Lynch took on the impossible task of creating a film adaptation of the legendary novel "Dune." Now, in 2021, Dune is once again gracing the silver screen. This time, Denis Villeneuve, director of "Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049," is at the helm...
Oct 23, 2021
Halloween Kills: The Boogeyman Strikes Back
Image Courtesy of ComicBook.com Fire cannot kill a Shape... Last night, after a year-long delay, I finally watched Halloween Kills, the 12th installment in the Halloween franchise, (3rd if you go by this new timeline) and my most anticipated film of the year. The slasher sequel to 2018's slasher sequel, brings back ma...
Oct 18, 2021
Seinfeld: How "The Show About Nothing" Stays Fresh
Seinfeld made its way onto Netflix on October first, a move that fans of the show have been asking for for years. The series is widely known as one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. But why is it still so popular, and how does the comedy hold up today? Seinfeld ran from 1989 to 1998, and owes much of its success...
Oct 17, 2021
No Time to Die: 007's Stellar Swan Song
He's got all the time in the world. Review by Nick Meneses After an entire year of multiple delays and postponements, No Time to Die, the 25th film in the beloved James Bond franchise, which sees Daniel Craig return for his fifth and final outing as everyone's favorite secret agent, has finally arrived. For the most pa...
Oct 16, 2021
Jeepers Creepers: The Perfect Horror Movie
With Halloween only a few weeks away I thought it would be fitting to delve into why I think my favourite horror movie is the best. Jeepers Creepers is your classic 'teens in terror' flick, produced by Victor Salva in 2001. But unfortunately, the entirety of Jeepers Creepers ended up a giant cliché in the movie ...
Oct 09, 2021
The Hockey Mafia: A Review of Netflix's "Untold Crime & Penalties"
When you think of the mafia the first things that come to mind are money, drugs, crime, and dudes in suits with too much gel in their hair. The Mob throughout history has had their hands in many aspects of society but one aspect that you wouldn't think of would-be hockey. Well, believe it or not, the mob even found th...
Oct 08, 2021
Is There Hope for the Super Mario Movie?
On September 23rd, Nintendo announced the cast list for the Super Mario movie. The cast includes Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy and many other Hollywood stars. The announcement has generated a fire storm on the internet with reactions coming from supporters and skeptics alike. "The Nintendo Direct"...
Oct 07, 2021
3 throwback Halloween movies you should stream this October
Aside from the stunning blanket of gold and amber trees and the Thanksgiving spirit giving life to October every year, another thing that I always look forward to this month is Halloween. Cozying up with my friends with warm cups of hot chocolate while watching our favourite classic Halloween movies is such a special m...
Oct 06, 2021
Blush - A Small Film with a Big Heart
At the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF), I had the chance to watch some great movies, documentaries and seminars. With that being said, I try not to listen or read any reviews for movies I want to watch until I finish watching it so I can make up my own mind. I had heard from a friend that the short film, Blu...
Sep 28, 2021
Malignant: A slashing sensation by James Wan (Archived)
Well, the title never lies. This isn't benevolent at all... Review by Nick Meneses Last night, I had the chance to watch Malignant, the latest film by James Wan (the director who brought us memorable horror flicks such as Saw, The Conjuring, and Insidious) and it didn't disappoint...mostly. This one-part sla...
Sep 16, 2021