Month: November 2017
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Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond
Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, is the best thing that came from the generic, colour by numbers Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon. Man on the Moon was a 1999 biopic, directed by Milos Foreman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), about the comedian Andy Kaufman. It was competently made, but feels like…
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Mister Miracle
DC Comic’s current Mr. Miracle mini-series is a must read for fans of challenging, surreal, and brilliant story-telling, a new take on the new god. Comicdom’s greatest escape artist, pacifist/general/warrior, and most beloved New God, Jack “King” Kirby’s Mr. Miracle is back in an impressive twelve part story of heroism, despair, and self-identity, relying on…
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Justice League
Nevermind what Rotten Tomatoes is saying; while Justice League isn’t a good movie, it’s not the total train wreck most of us were expecting either. Even though I recognize the homogenous, marketing department assembly line construction of blockbuster superhero movies, I have a compulsion that forces me to see each one upon release. This is…
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Stone Temple Pilots: Core’s 25th Anniversary
We take a deep down look at the often maligned debut album from Stone Temple Pilots, ‘Core,’ on the occasion of its 25th anniversary re-release. By the time Stone Temple Pilot’s [STP] ‘Core’ rolled around towards the end of 1992, America was in a cultural climate not too dissimilar from what they are in now,…
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Bonehill Road
Emily and Eden Stevens escape one violent situation only to dive head first into another in Todd Sheets’, Bonehill Road, a decidedly hairy werewolf horror. I haven’t seen many decent lycan films since Ginger Snaps (2000), though there have been the occasional ones like Bubba the Redneck Werewolf, reviewed earlier at The Feedback Society. No,…
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The Florida Project
Sean Baker, director of Tangerine, has made another cinematic masterpiece with The Florida Project, a story of poverty in the shadow of Disney World. Sean Baker’s Tangerine was my favourite film of 2015, inhabiting the world of transgender prostitution in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Famously shot on iPhones, but without a hint of gimmickry, the…
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Thor: Ragnarok
The third Thor movie proves that there’s still a lot of fun in the Marvel tank and places to explore for the God of Thunder. It’s been a couple of months since the last mega-budget, VFX-heavy comic book blockbuster so it’s about that time for another one. Don’t roll your eyes this time, though –…
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Concert Review: Depeche Mode (Oct 27, 2017 – Edmonton)
Depeche Mode is touring through North America right now — we caught them in Edmonton, Alberta on October 27th. A good show, though not mindblowing. A few people seemed surprised when I told them I was going to Edmonton to see Depeche Mode live. They were surprised that Depeche Mode was still a thing and…
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Murder Made Easy
Murder Made Easy is a dark, funny movie that feels like a twisted Agatha Christie play in the right ways, as murder is made delicious. I found it kind of humorous, for a number of reasons, that part of the story in the film sprung from a previous play production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap,…
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Two New Hack/Slash Titles
Fan favourites Hack/Slash have returned to hunt Revenants, chase killers, and face off against Vampirella, in two new series from Image and Dynamite this Halloween. Fandom, in any genre, is notorious for its insatiable appetite; once fans find their property of choice they are continually seeking out the next chapter often before the present one…