Month: April 2015
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’71
Bloody Sunday meets Judgment Night? Perhaps not the best description, but director Yann Demange’s ’71 is a film where art meets action and succeeds thoroughly. When young British army soldier Gary Hook has to dodge a balloon full of piss being hurled at him by Irish kids, he can’t help but laugh. It wasn’t too…
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Mad Men: The End of an Era
As Mad Men comes to a close, one of the greatest shows ever to grace television screens, we reflect on drama, endings, and life itself. As one of the best series ever to be broadcast on television draws to a close, it is natural for us to get maudlin about it not being there for…
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Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
Kim unearths a Brittish/Scottish 70s record that contains the hearty musical DNA of artists like David Bowie, Nick Drake, Donavan, George Harrison, and Paul Simon. This mid-70s lush gem of British pop/rock is not to be missed. While Stewart is actually Scottish, the sound and vibe of the album fit somewhere in the ‘Space Oddity’…
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I Am Not Spock – Leonard Nimoy
Got about a minute? Then The Feedback Society Short Vlogs are for your short attention span! Today, Craig Silliphant talks about I Am Not Spock.
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
Does Noel Gallagher’s new album live up to those from Oasis’ glory days? Does it have to? We look at the new record, ‘Chasing Yesterday.’ The first thing I heard Noel Gallagher say about his new album is that it has a “shit title,” followed by a funny story of how that came to be. Noel…
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It Follows
It Follows has some leaps in logic that one may have to ignore here and there, but it’s still an effective, excellent little horror film. It Follows has arguably been the indie sensation of the year (so far). A lot has been said about the film in the past few weeks, notably in regard to…
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Cinderella
With the live action Cinderella, Sir Kenneth Branagh updates Disney’s classic about a kind-hearted girl being hounded by her two fugly-ug sisters and Cate Blanchett. The original 1950 animated version of Cinderella is one of my top three favourite Disney movies, so this year’s live action remake had a lot to live up to for…
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A Most Violent Year
New York City was a scary place in 1981. A Most Violent Year uses that as the gritty backdrop for a minor family crime saga. Back when my wife was my girlfriend, I went on a trip with her and her family to New York City. We had taken the train from Montreal, getting off…