October 2025: Best or Worst Film Watched in Class

Collaborative List
Whether you are taking film classes for post-secondary or maybe it is just the films your high school English teacher showed you, we all have some film experience in a class setting.  Our contributors tell us about their most notable film experiences in class for our October 2025 collaborative list!

See what they have to say and comment what your own pick would be!

September 2025: Favourite Guilty Pleasure Movie

Collaborative List
Sometimes as film lovers we just want to watch stuff that is "bad", so contributors picked out their favourite Guilty Pleasure Movie for our September 2025 collaborative list!

See what they have to say and comment what your own pick would be!

April 2025: Favourite Film Society Screening

Collaborative List
Contributors picked their favourite Film Society screening for our April 2025 collaborative list.

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March 2025: Favourite Early Childhood Memory Movie

Collaborative List
Contributors picked their favourite early childhood memory movie for our March 2025 collaborative list.

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​‘Reclaiming Identity Through Australian and New Zealand’s Indigenous Cinema’ ​

By Hunter Demers
Condensed version of paper submitted for FILM 509 with Dr. Modgill.

Crisis: How Ingmar Bergman’s Career Started at his Worst

by Logan Schwindt
“A Crisis of Unrefined Talent”
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​As an extension of the February 2025 Collaborative List, this article looks deeper into the writer’s opinion on Ingmar Bergman’s film Crisis and how it compares to the rest of his work. 

February 2025: least favourite film from your favourite director

Collaborative List
Contributors picked their least favourite film from one of their favourite directors for our February 2025 collaborative list.

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December 2024-January 2025: Your Favourite Movie Soundtracks

Collaborative List
Contributors picked their favourite film soundtrack for our collaborative list for the months of January and February. 

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November 2024: Your favourite war movies

Collaborative List
Contributors picked their favourite war or war related film for our collaborative list for the month of November. 

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​October 2024: your favourite Halloween movies

Collaborative List
Contributors picked their favourite film that gets them in the mood for Halloween–

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Fourth Annual Crash/Cut Film Awards
29/04/2024
voted by our members
The best films of 2023, voted by the Film Society!

Three Essential Indie Sleaze Films

by Catherine McDonald
spontaneous, hedonistic, horny, distinctly unrefined. put on some smeared mascara, Angles by The Strokes, and your American Apparel A-line skirt  .........
29/02/2024

The Best Films of 2022
23/03/2023
by the UCFS Film Execs
A few favourites from 2022.

Third Annual Crash/Cut Film Awards
12/03/2023
voted by our members
2022 was an incredible year for cinema, and after weeks of nominations and voting, the results are finally in!

The Best Films of 2020
3/3/2021
by the members of the U of C Film Society
A few of our members share their favourite movies from 2020.

Halloween Movies We Love!
31/10/2020
by the UCFS Execs
A few of our members share our favourite Halloween movie sure to get you in the spirit of the holiday! Happy Halloween!

6 Deadly Giallo Films
4/8/2020
by Marcus Ogden
​Marcus Ogden Delivers 6 of his favourite giallos to our gracious gullets. The gullets of our eyes, that is. Read it at your own risk!!

The Films of Daniel Radcliffe: A Definitive Ranking
11/5/2020
by Jocelyn Illing
"I set out to watch all of Radcliffe’s post-Harry Potter films and rank them from the sublime indie roles to the  the rather boring block-buster supporting characters. "

Second Annual Crash/Cut Film Awards
9/2/2020
voted by our Members
"Wow... it has been one whole year since we last did this and boy did we watch some great movies!"

The Best Films of 2018 & 2019
8/5/2020
by the UCFS Execs
It's here! The end of the decade, the end of the UCFS series on the best films of each year. Hope you enjoy this final instalment! And adios 2010's!

The Best Films of 2016 & 2017
8/5/2020
by the UCFS Execs
The best of the decade continues, and this time it's 2016 and 2017.

The Best Films of 2014 & 2015
8/5/2020
by the UCFS Execs
The UCFS ranks the best films of 2014 and 2015 as part of the continued series on the best of the decade!

The Best Films of 2012 & 2013
6/2/2020
by the UCFS Execs
Continuing the University of Calgary Film Society's recounting of their favourite films of the past decade. This time , 2012 and 2013

Best Picture Nominees 2020: A Definitive Ranking
6/2/2020
by Jocelyn Illing
"Hello, me again. Last year I watched all the Best Picture Oscar nominees and made a definitive ranking. This year I have done it again AND added a list of films that I believe were snubbed by the academy."

The Best Films of 2010 & 2011
1/12/2019
by the UCFS Execs
Beginning a series recounting the past decade as we enter the next, the execs in the University of Calgary Film Society divulge their favourite films from 2010 & 2011.
by Erin Shanks
​"Even through the strict rules of the production code, the filmmakers of the Classical Hollywood era managed to completely subvert my expectations. These films are filled with life and vibrancy. They jump through the screen and even though they all follow the same structure they take hold of you every time..."
by Sydney Urschel
"If you have even the slightest incline towards films and movies, I HIGHLY suggest... possibly even beg you to attend at least one day of the 27th Annual Artifact Small-Format Film Festival, running March 7th, 8th, and 9th at The GRAND..."
chosen by the Members of the U of C Film Society
"We're so excited to be hosting our first ever film awards right here on Crash/Cut. After weeks of nominations, and voting we've finally tallied the winners of each category, and boy do you all love some Marvel movies..."
written by Jocelyn Illing
"For the first time in my twenty years on this earth, I have succeeded in viewing every single film nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards (I’ll wait until the applause die down)...."
written by Jocelyn Illing
"We’re less than a week away from the 91st Annual Academy Awards and I have some thoughts. Every year I wait anxiously in front of my computer for the announcement of the year’s nominees and have been left, more or less, disappointed..."
written by Erin Shanks
"Whether you’ve never seen a foreign film or have just dipped your toe into the vast ocean of international cinema, it can be really intimidating to figure out what to watch next..."
written by Anton Charpentier
"Perhaps the most laughed at and scrutinized genre of filmmaking in recent years is that of the superhero movie. Endless annoying debates have plagued the film community over the quality or merit of superhero movies; to a point of pure exhaustion..."
by the UCFS
check out what we thought were the best films of 2018!

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