Tech giant focuses on user experience over new hardware American technology giant Apple hosted their annual developer’s conference in San Francisco from June 13 to June 16. Unveiling incremental updates to their core software systems, this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) featured much-needed revisions, as well as tweaks aimed at […]
Author: Sameer Chhabra
Highlights from the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo
Developers, distributors, and the Big Three attend annual entertainment convention The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was held over three days from June 14 to June 16. Developers, publishers, and gamers all flocked to Los Angeles for a weekend of new releases, trailers, and excitement. Each year, organizations from around […]
The Weekly Scene: Love (2015)
3.5 let’s-call-them-romantic-trysts out of 4 Gaspar Noé’s Love is a film that does not skirt the line between art and pornography, it does everything short of filming two characters on a casting couch. Characters in love are nothing more than vehicles for sex, angst, and non-linear storytelling. The film is […]
A Matter of Facts: Pheromone spray reduces anxiety in tigers and prompts breeding
Revving up tigers’ animal instinct Tiger populations have reached critically endangered levels—only around 4,000 tigers currently exist in the wild. And while breeding programs in zoos are proving to be a major help in ensuring the species’ longevity, problems exist: Like all cats, tigers are territorial and often struggle to […]
The Weekly Scene: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), directed by Bryan Singer
2 dull-unfitting-trilogy-conclusions out of 4 Treated as the final film in a relatively successful trilogy, series veteran Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse serves as a disappointing, undeserved, and mediocre conclusion. Simply put, the film is a confounding mess of different genres, moods, and themes. Apocalypse’s scantily tied together plot centres around […]
The Weekly Scene: Disney’s The Jungle Book (2016)
3.5 visually-stunning-but-narratively-lacking-spectacles out of 4 I enjoyed The Jungle Book, but it should go without saying that a 21-year-old university graduate is in no way the explicitly intended audience for Jon Favreau’s live-action remake of Disney’s animated classic. Indeed, the very fact that I so enjoyed the original 1967 film […]
The Weekly Scene: Captain America Civil War
4 impressively-put-together-action-sequences out of 4 Allow me to answer the quick questions. Yes, this movie is good. Yes, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man is great. Yes, the fight sequences are absolutely as incredible as the reports would have you believe. Yes, you should be excited for the next films in the Marvel […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Guelph and London
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured London’s and Guelph’s industrial sectors on April 14, 2016. The prime minister delivered a speech at London’s Fanshawe College in the morning, while briefly meeting with workers at Guelph’s Magna Polycon Industries plant in the afternoon. Speaking at Fanshawe’s Centre for Applied Transportation Technologies, […]
Science Avenue: Hypotheses, Theories, and Laws
Image adapted from the photo by Ulrik Slot Christensen via CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. A final look at what makes scientific thought tick What are Hypotheses, Theories and Laws? Science starts, much like all things, at the beginning. In the beginning, there is nothing but an idea about the universe—a question […]
The Weekly Scene: Before Midnight (2013)
4 beautiful-reminders-that-life-goes-on out of 4 Richard Linklater is a filmmaker who understands the importance of character in relation to narrative. His films are often best-described as filmed plays, and it’s his emphasis on dialogue and character development that truly makes his movies so enjoyable. The Before trilogy represents Linklater’s earliest […]
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