Month: December 2016
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The Best Television of 2016
We look at the best shows on television in 2016, a year when pundits say that the movies have died, reborn to the boob tube. It’s been said recently that movies are dying, being reborn as television. We’ll see if that turns out to be true, but there were certainly more great TV shows this…
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The Feedback Society’s This Week in Music
Some 2016 albums that Dani has been listening to this year at The Feedback Society, like Phantogram, Childish Gambino, Megan Trainor, Lady Gaga, and more. Phantogram – Three On the back of their recent side project Big Grams featuring Big Boi of Outkast fame, ‘Three’ is a collaboration of the duo’s electropop roots and signature…
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Brando’s Two Days of Killmas
Brando looks at two holiday movies that show you that no matter how bad your family time is going, things can always get much worse. Christmas is a time of family and togetherness, when we close out the year by spending time with the people we love and watching great, classic Christmas specials from our…
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24th Street Wailers – Concert Review (Saskatoon)
Jade unearths the past through music with the help of rockabilly revivalists, The 24th Street Wailers, at a recent concert at the Bassment in Saskatoon. It happened during the first saxophone solo. Maybe it was how passion tensed up his body, how the lively drum rhythm replaced my own heartbeat, or how everyone swayed in…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The first Star Wars spin off is more a prequel. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is box office boffo — is it any good? This review will be spoiler free, until the bottom section, where you will get fair warning. So far, I’ve heard opinions and read reviews on Rogue One: A Star Wars…
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Moonlight
Moonlight is a compassionate, beautifully rendered character study that asks you to watch the screen, but also to look inward to see your own identity. Moonlight is based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, but because of the way the playwright saw snapshots of imagery in his head, he always…
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Rory Gilmore is a Bad Journalist
Is Rory Gilmore a shitty journalist? One of our own journalists says, yes. Yes, she is. We know it’s just TV, but come on people. For many girls growing up in the 80s and 90s, Rory was our guide, our comrade, our sister. For those who also aspired to be journalists she was another version…
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The Super Nintendo Classic Mini
In the wake of the release of the mini Classic NES Console, Brando wonders, why not do the same thing for the classic Super Nintendo? Every year, there is that one item that makes its way onto every kid’s Christmas list, and they become very difficult to find. This year, I think it’s some kind…
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The Red Turtle
Japan’s Studio Ghibli collaberate with Dutch animator and director Michael Dudok de Wit to bring us a minimal but affecting story with The Red Turtle. Known for its austere visual style and lyrical fables, Japan’s Studio Ghibli is perhaps the world’s most respected animation studio — and certainly the most refined in their rigorously detailed…
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The Crown
Netflix’s The Crown tells the fascinating story of young Queen Elizabeth II. It’s a smart period piece — much more Mad Men than Downton Abbey. In Canada, we’ve lived under the reign of Queen Elizabeth II since 1952, when she took the throne after the death of her father, George VI (we became a constitutional…