Month: January 2017
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Local Music Feedback – Lenore Maier from The Garrys
Lenore Maier from Saskatoon band The Garrys chats with us about her band and the music that she (and they) are listening to right now. You may or may not be familiar with our Feedback Society’s Week in Music, where our writers talk about five albums they’ve been listening to that week. We decided to…
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Micro Budget Movies (2016)
Digging deep underground, we give you our best and worst…er…favourite and not favourite DIY indie movies of 2016. Movies that soar with humour and imagination. It’s that time of the year again, when lists like this pop up, so why should I be different? But I have rules about such lists: I have an issue…
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The Rezort
On Netflix, you’ll find The Rezort, yet another zombie movie (meeting with Jurassic Park), which has some good ideas but could have been much better. I have been burnt out on zombie movies. I think they are all the same and in general they are in no way interesting to me. So when I saw…
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The OA
Spoilers abound! We look at one of the most divisive shows this year, The OA. Some love it, some hate it. Some are just confused. Note: The following piece contains spoilers for The OA. The week following the release of The OA I received a fluster of emails and messages that I had to watch…
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Top 5 Oscar Snubs and Surprises
With the Academy Award nominations released this week, we take a look at five of the biggest snubs and surprises for Oscar glory this year. There weren’t too many shocking pronouncements with the Oscar nominations this week, though there were a few snubs and surprises worth mentioning. Here’s our rundown of some of the most…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
All goes well when indie director Richard Griffin puts his unique stamp on (another) movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s popular play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If you are yet unfamiliar with Rhode Island indie director Richard Griffin, well, you have some homework ahead of you. A critic’s darling and a fan’s friend, he has dipped…
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Split
M Night Shyamalan went from being master of the twist to master of the garbage pile. Does his new movie, Split restore him to glory? Oh, M. Night, it seems you have finally turned the corner following the absolute tragedies that were Avatar: The Last Airbender and After Earth, and have returned to making some…
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La La Land
La La Land is well constructed, but with weak songs and empty cipher characters, it’s ultimately surviving on overhype. Now watch it sweep award season. It’s not La La Land’s fault that it was one of the most overhyped movies of last year. This happened to several films in 2016, perhaps because film writers and…
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The Best (and Worst) Movies of 2016
The film critics, writers, and filmmakers in orbit of The Feedback Society give you our best and worst films of 2016. Also, are movies dying? It’s that time again! Time to talk about the best movies of the past year. Once again, we’ve assembled a crack team of movie geeks and professional critics that have…
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The Feedback Society’s Top 20 Albums of 2016
As he does every year, music writer Dave Scaddan gives us his top 20 albums of the year! Here’s Dave’s Top 20 albums of 2016! The December 25th drop of the third Run the Jewels album has complicated my already ridiculous attempt to tell you, the reader, about my thoughts concerning the most highly regarded…