Month: May 2014
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Filth
Writer and director Jon. S. Baird brings Irvine Welsh’s crooked cop story Filth to the big screen with James McAvoy as dirty detective Bruce Robinson. There’s nothing dirtier than a dirty cop, unless it’s a movie about a dirty cop. Ever since Popeye Doyle was scripted as a bigot and an officer with a reckless…
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
If you can suspend your disbelief, X-Men: Days of Future Past is summer comic book movie that shows blockbusters can have brains and heart too. Days of Future Past started as a two-part story within the pages of The Uncanny X-Men comic series in 1981, in which Kitty Pryde travels back to her younger self…
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Mistaken for Strangers
Mistaken for Strangers begins as a tour diary of The National, but jumps to sweet, strange, funny ruminations on sibling affection and the creative mind. Brooklyn via Cincinnati indie band The National are one of the best-known modern purveyors of sad bastard music, led by moping baritone singer Matt Berninger. The film Mistaken for Strangers…
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Blue Ruin
In Jeremy Saulneir’s Kickstarter funded revenge thriller Blue Ruin, the director explores messy revenge and gun culture in a Coen Brothers’ manner to great success. If you ask a homicide detective, they’ll tell you that most amateur murderers make a lot of mistakes in the heat of the moment. Through a combination of being ill-prepared…
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Britpop VS. Grunge
Britpop and Grunge each step into the ring, with Heath McCoy as referee, judge, jury, and executioner. Winner takes it all —- Britpop vs. Grunge. The so-called Britpop movement, which was born 20 years ago, around this time, meant so much more to me than the so-called grunge movement, which effectively died 20 years ago,…
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The Feedback Society’s Week in Music
Albums we’ve been listening to this week at The Feedback Society. New records from old favourites like Fennesz, The Afghan Whigs, and other sonic goodies. Fennesz – Bécs Around 2001, I was into a lot of glitchy music, from more straight ahead acts like The Postal Service to the off the beaten path artists like…
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The Criterion Cut – Make Way for Tomorrow
In this week’s instalment of The Criterion Cut, Noah Dimitrie takes a look at Leo McCarey’s Make Way For Tomorrow, a poignant meditation on aging. At the 10th Academy Awards in 1938, Leo McCarey (Duck Soup) won Best Director for The Awful Truth. In a press conference afterwards, he exclaimed that he received the prestigious…
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The Amazing Spider-man 2
Mark Webb’s Spider-man is back in a sequel that the Internet hates. Craig Silliphant asks, are there any redeeming qualities to The Amazing Spider-man 2? “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” –…
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Cosplay Photos from Calgary Expo
It’s fun to look at Cosplay photos, isn’t it? Here’a a wack of em’ taken at Calgary Expo, by our intrepid geek reporter, Ian Goodwillie. Photos by Ian Goodwillie from Calgary Expo 2014. Commentary by The Editor. The Falcon. Fire Princess and Ice King (with my favourite, a little Gunter!) Hello Kitty Samurai. I’m not…