Month: January 2018
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The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water comes out swinging with 13 Oscar nominations. It’s deserving of the hype — a brilliant, though sometimes flawed, film. The opening of Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water made me think I’d be in for a whimsical tale, with perhaps a little bit of a dark side.…
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The Best (and Worst) Movies of 2017
Every year, we get the best writers and film critics in our circle, both professional and amateur, to give you their best and worst movies. Every year, we like to round up the best writers and film critics in our circles, both professional and amateur, to give you a list of their best and worst…
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I, Tonya
I, Tonya may not always stick the landing, but it’s a smart, thoughtful, energetic, well-acted and directed look at what really happened with Tonya Harding. I still don’t believe that Tonya Harding had no prior knowledge of, and therefore culpability for, the attack on Nancy Kerrigan that captivated the world in 1994. But director Craig…
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The Feedback Society’s Top 20 Albums of 2017
Every January, one of our resident music experts, Dave Scaddan, gives us his Top 20 favourite albums (well, sort of) of the last year. Enjoy! Here, again, is the year in music as I saw it. My list this year seems to skew towards musicians who’ve been at it for a while (and some who’ve…