Month: June 2017
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Jazzfest: Pile of Bones Brass Band
Regina’s Pile of Bones Brass Band lit up the Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival stage at The Broadway Theatre on Saturday night. Here’s Stacey’s show review! This year for the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival the Pile of Bones Brass Band played two shows on Saturday, June 24. They played a more laid-back show on the free…
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Baby Driver
The hype surrounding Edgar Wright’s new film, Baby Driver, does not go unrewarded; it’s the coolest and most satisfying piece of pop entertainment this year. It’s been a long four years since British wunderkind Edgar Wright last released a film and his return is most welcome during these summer multiplex doldrums. After one lame duck…
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Jazzfest: Gillian Snider Sings Joni Mitchell
Gillian Snider sings Joni Mitchell on the PotashCorp Club Jazz Free Stage on Saturday, July 1st at noon. We chat with Snider about the show. Gillian Snider grew up in a musical family. In fact, her Mom was a regular on The Tommy Hunter Show (she was one of the Allan Sisters) and in addition…
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Jazzfest: The Marc Holt Quintet
The Marc Holt Quintet (as well as The Holt/Becker Duo) are another great local jazz act that will be playing the Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival. This will be the fifth year that Saskatoon sax man Marc Holt has played the Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival (and the fourth year that the Marc Holt Quintet has played).…
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The Gallows
Brando finally catches up with The Gallows, which he had heard good things about. Brando, you are about to discover the horror of raw disappointment. A couple a years ago I remember a few of my friends asking me if I had seen The Gallows, a (then) new horror flick the apparently looked super great…
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Wonder Woman
Nuts to the haters! Wonder Woman proved to the world that people do want female action heroes (and that DC might yet have some promise). There were a lot of dumb questions and unfair expectations resting on the shoulders of Wonder Woman. Could she turn around the flailing DC Comics cinematic universe (creatively, not box…
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Fleet Foxes – Crack Up
Fleet Foxes new album, ‘Crack Up,’ shows us that they are able to work within — and rise above — the limitations of their genre. Modern folk-rock’s tug, as far as I can really tell as I gaze into their pudgy, trusting faces, seems to be the assumption it’s easy for them to extract beauty…
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Colossal
Colossal is a study of how subverting the expectations of the audience can either pay off big or leave the viewer stuck in a limbo. How much praise does originality merit? In our current film climate of blockbuster adaptations that cover everything from comic books to board games, originality shines through like a glimpse of…
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Interview – The Dirty Nil
Hamilton JUNO winners The Dirty Nil are coming through Western Canada with The Flatliners and Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs. We chat with ‘em. Hamilton’s The Dirty Nil recently won the JUNO for Breakthrough Group of the Year. I got turned on to their latest album, ‘Minimum R&B,’ which is actually a re-releasing of…