Electronic Disclosure: Law and Practice
Michael Wheater and Charles Raffin
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Electronic disclosure of evidence is now an unavoidable aspect of litigation. With technology...
Employment Law in Context
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Employment Law in Context combines extracts from leading cases and articles with insightful and...
Top Gear: the Cool 500
9.0
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Ever since Karl Benz first powered up his Patent-Motorwagen in 1885, man has salivated and swooned...
A Brahms Reader
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was prominent not only as a composer but as a pianist, conductor,...
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry and Deirdre Osborne
6.8
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A Raisin in the Sun is a classic American play: a groundbreaking 1950s civil rights drama and has a...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Dead Don't Die (2019) in Movies
Jun 15, 2020
I'm all for off beat and dark humour and wit, but I'm afraid for me this film was just too far in the left field. I liked the deadpan aspects and humour and also how it surpassed the fourth wall, the problem was the laughs were still few and far between. I like how this poked fun at today's society and there was a lot of social commentary, it was just so deadpan that a lot of the witty remarks were lost. The plot development too was so slow. The film was virtually over by the time it felt like it was going anywhere, and even when the zombies emerged in full they couldn't breathe any life (ha) into this. Strangely such a stellar cast were wasted too. Tilde Swinton's wacky funeral director was by far the most fun but even she got on my nerves by the end.
I'm all for your non-typical comedy, but sadly this film just wasn't for me. There are some good ideas in this but they feel wasted
Such a Fun Age
7.2
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to...
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Experience award-winning journalism from Canada's largest online news site, the Toronto Star. Our...
Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated Nerve (2016) in Movies
Aug 6, 2019
Nerve feels like its two movies in one. For the first two acts, Nerve is a young adult/teen film where we follow Vee (Emma Roberts) as she breaks free from her unassertive personality that has her in the background among her friends and afraid to tell her family where she wants to go to college. She is a good kid, but too timid to go after anything she really wants. Instead through the challenges of the game Nerve, she gains confidence in herself as she becomes involved with another Nerve player Ian (Dave Franco). Together, along with a fast paced uplifting soundtrack, we are taken on a fun and entertaining ride where you cannot help but care about these two and wonder what you would do in their situation.
Roberts and Franco are likable in their roles and they lead a stellar young cast who are all realistic in their youthful portrayal. Not too surprising because they are actually young actors, but it is important to note that the cast feels “real,” which helps sell the believability that a game like “Nerve” could actually exist in our world. Especially in a world where we are glued to our phones, tablets and computers in order to be the “star of our own lives” through the instant gratification of social media. Along with the recent emergence of the popularity of augmented reality games like Pokémon Go, it is conceivable that a game like Nerve could exist in our near future.
But this is where the film starts to fall apart. In the third act, the film hastily transitions into a social commentary of the anonymity of the internet, mob think and what we are willing to share online. While I understand this is a message that seem appropriate a story like this, that message would have been better served in a sinister film like the aforementioned, 13 Sins, and not in a movie which up to that point, felt that it was headed towards being an inspiring and uplifting film. It doesn’t help that the resolution of that social commentary was comical in its execution that completely pulls you out of the film. It was an unnecessary turn that wanted us to focus on the game Nerve rather than the characters the story made us care about. It’s a shame really because up until that point, the film Nerve was fun, enjoyable and inspiring, only to fall apart for no real reason other than to make a weak attempt at being something more than a teen movie.
I am sure the young adult/teenage audience this film is marketed towards will enjoy Nerve, but this film is really more of a rental or at most, a matinee.
Playing Offstage: The Theater as a Presence or Factor in the Real World
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Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play...