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By Stephanie Shewchuk

In the Golden era of cinema, silent screen superstar Mary Pickford commented, “When sound came to the pictures, they took a giant step backwards.” With the shallow whiz bang of today’s movies, she may have been right. But The Uptown Stage and Screen remembers the time of silent cinema and have brought back the treasures… Continue reading Movie Preview: Silent movies let the classics speak

By Logan Niehaus

A hundred dollars used to buy you a lot. A rubber monster or a lighting crew. But this is a time of big budget, high profile and over-promoted films dominating the cinemas, created and produced with budgets exceeding millions of dollars. But there was a time, when filmmakers only had so much money to create,… Continue reading Movie Preview: If I had a $100

By Nolan Lewis

The early ’90s were sad. Besides the repetition of “righteous” and Bermuda short wearing wannabe surfers, it also marked the beginning of Hulk Hogan’s acting career–one most of us would like to forget. Except Disney, it seems, as they decided to remake Hulkamaniac’s Mr. Nanny. In it, the Hulkster was a wrestler/bodyguard assigned to protect… Continue reading Movie Review: Surprise, Vin Diesel still not funny

By Nathan Atnikov

Perhaps we’ve come to expect too much from animated movies. Over the past several years, the whole idea of the animated feature turned on its head. We’ve been spoiled with movies like Monsters Inc., Shrek, and The Incredible, which were all sufficiently silly for the kids, but have the intelligence and wit for the grown-up… Continue reading Movie Review: Robots too mechanical for adults to laugh

By Sherri Shergill

Partying, sex, drinking and getting into outlandish situations are all part of the unofficial life of undergraduates across North America. On the other hand, the official part–the actual school work–is much less interesting to talk about, let alone watch. But if you really want to watch students grumble about the mundane, because you can not… Continue reading Movie Review: College snooze, College stiff

By Chris Tait

Think back to a different time. A time when sweat beads off the foreheads of rollerbladers, kids stumble with triple-stacked ice cream to the wading pool at Eau Claire Market and ducks hide in the shade across from Prince’s Island Park. All along the street, leaves are yellow and tumble to the sidewalks, to be… Continue reading Movie Interview: Childstar, but no Michael Jackson

By Alan Cho

It’s officially time to admit punk is dead. Punk is no longer about rocking out in high school and not knowing why you found Judy, the girl by the smoking doors, so sexy. Now it’s the power anthem for disenfranchised kids in the suburbs who didn’t get the BMW for their sixteenth birthday. Punk has… Continue reading Movie Review: The end of the Ramones’ century

By Kyle Francis

Canada. A country renown for beautiful women and cheap hard liquor. It can be logically extrapolated then, if an alien were to crashland in rural Ontario, he would quickly develop a drinking problem and be hunted down by a hot French girl. At least that’s what Rod Stefaniuk thought when he wrote, directed and starred… Continue reading Movie Interview: Earthlings, we come for bacon and syrup

By Kyle Francis

Kung Fu movies come in one of two flavors. The first being a spectacle of wires and hitting with a cliched story thrown in as an afterthought or as an excuse to move a ripped Asian guy from one fight scene to the next. The second is the sub-genre perfected by Jackie Chan, where a… Continue reading Movie Review: Tony Jaa delivers delightful blows to the noggin

By Logan Niehaus

Horror movies leave viewers either exhilarated or completely enraged. Little room exists for anything in between, even the lack of gore, a poor story or unresolved ending can sink a film in no time. 2004 was an extremely disappointing year for horror films, with mindless filth like Alone in the Dark and White Noise insulting… Continue reading Movie Review: Boogeyman boogie-woogie goodie