Month: November 2018
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The Christmas Chronicles
Netflix pulled a new Christmas movie from under the tree, starring Kurt Russell as Santa. Is it a new classic or a lump of coal? While I have been known to have an allergic reaction to the overuse of cheese, melodrama, and sentimentality in film and television, for some reason my brain suspends this bias…
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Homecoming
Sam Esmail, creator of the excellent show, Mr. Robot, has a new Amazon series starring Julia Roberts. It’s called Homecoming, and it’s smart and enigmatic. Do we ever really make peace with our bad choices in life? Or is that thin line of the human condition so unstable that we fool ourselves into believing we…
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VIDEO: Your First Concert – Mike Fisher from SaskExpo
In our funniest ‘Your First Concert’ yet, Mike Fisher from The Saskatchewan Entertainment Expo (Sask Expo) talks about his first arena experience, which was horrifying.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Newcomers may want to start somewhere else in the Potterverse series, but true blue fans will find something to enjoy in The Crimes of Grindelwald. The Wizarding World will never die! We supposedly said goodbye to the land of magic and muggles over seven years ago when the Deathly Hallows came to a close. But…
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Overlord
On paper, Overlord is a genre-mashup of a film that probably seems like it wouldn’t really work, but the funny thing is, it totally does. While walking out of my screening of Overlord, I couldn’t help but wonder why this conventional but rousing film chose such a name. There are no overt “overlords” in the…
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Panned Gold: Symmetry – Themes for an Imaginary Film
In the latest edition of Panned Gold, where we look at albums that got an unfair shake, we cover Symmetry’s ‘Themes for an Imaginary Film.’ This triple LP’s origins began as a score for the film Drive. Johnny Jewel (now of Chromatics and Glass Candy) had a handshake deal for the soundtrack, thanks to a…
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Widows
We have another great film from director Steve McQueen. ‘Widows’ does the heist genre with some new twists, stellar actors playing memorable characters. See it. Genuine emotion runs deep and the stakes hit home in Widows. It is an engrossing drama that takes the heist genre and steers it into thoughtful commentary that we rarely…
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The Prodigy – No Tourists
There’s nothing new on The Prodigy’s latest album of explosive body shakers, ‘No Tourists,’ but it delivers bangers. The question is: does anyone still care? If The Prodigy proved one thing, it’s while the road of excess doesn’t exactly lead to immortality for the jilted generation, it can sure take you further than the road…
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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot – DVD Review
We take a look at the DVD release of Gus Van Sant’s latest, starring Joaquin Phoenix, called, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot. A biopic about a man few knew by name, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot keeps a medium-cool temperament as it jumps through time telling of John Callahan’s…
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Eighth Grade – Blu ray Review
We take a look at the excellent film, Eighth Grade, as well as the recently released blu ray version of the teenage wasteland sleeper hit. A summer indie sleeper surprise, Eighth Grade makes it way home so you can live and relive the terrors of middle school all over again. It’s a rollercoaster of nostalgic…