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The Manitoban
The Students' Newspaper of the University of Manitoba
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The Academy Awards Awards!
Amy’s Picks Most hilarious acceptant speech: It is so easy to love and to hate Meryl Streep. The Academy has nominated her for an Oscar more than any other actor in history. Every year, this beautiful woman sits in the front row, poised and classy. And for all her nominations, Streep had only ever [...]
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Liberal interpretation, decent results
Maybe I’m getting too old, but I don’t like it when things from my childhood are acquired by Hollywood and reshaped into a 21st century franchise. Transformers, G.I. Joe, Speed Racer . . . even Astro Boy have been subjected to this indignity. So you can imagine that as I sat waiting for The Lorax [...]
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Something to talk about
The title of the film We Need to Talk About Kevin is an apt one. Full disclosure from the start: this film is exceptional! People (you, me, critics, every-day-movie-goers) should be talking about it. Unfortunately, there is something about this movie — which I will attempt to articulate — that is really hard to talk [...]
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The Reading Week Detox
Coming down off the reading week high can be a harrowing experience for some, especially when it comes time to go back to school. For those who’ve been on vacation in [insert warm, sunny location here], sun withdrawal can be rough. The following, then, are a few tips for coming back down to earth and [...]
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Not Serious: Retro Review!
When Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed came out for the PC and PlayStation in 2000 it was completely different from prior games in the series. Before, Need For Speed (NFS) would offer cars from different manufacturers for players to choose from. Unleashed focused only on the Porsche, but this focus was deep and thorough. Looking [...]
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Meet Bear 71
The National Film Board of Canada is drastically changing the landscape of cinema with interactive documentaries such as Bear 71, a multi-user online experience that will also be launched in an installation entitled Bear 71 Live. Bear 71 Live premiered worldwide at the prestigious Sundance Festival earlier this year and is currently available for viewing [...]
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Fortunes foretold: five future facts
Future Fact No. 1 The planet is not unchanging. We’ve passed the “tipping point,” we’re showing no signs of curtailing our climate effecting behaviour. I barely need to engage my prophetic powers to know that by 2100 we will inevitably have recognized the fact that we’ve been engaged in slowly boiling our own habitat. The [...]
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Hey there, it’s your future calling
Dear Sarah Petz (circa 2012), This is your future self here. Just wanted to send you a letter, letting you know how AWESOME 2042 is. You may be 52, but you are smokkkkiinnnn hot. You run 15 kilometres a day without breaking a sweat. Well, it may be in part because they have shoes that [...]
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Live longer and prosper
What constitutes a long-lived, healthy life? What is the ideal age to live to: 80, 90, 100? Assuming you remain in good biological and mental health, why stop at 100? These numbers are simply manifestations of what modern medicine and improved sanitary conditions and quality of life have allowed for. Maybe “good health” and, by [...]